I was satisfied. I
selected a boy to run a race; if the boy passed me, then I made the
distance longer, and if he passed me again, I made the distance still
longer, for I knew that I was long-winded. Then I won the race."

"Fifteen or twenty of us boys would go out to the river, and daub
ourselves up with mud and so disguise ourselves that no one in the camp
would know us. Then we would take jerked buffalo beef that the women had
hung up around the camp to dry and go off out of sight and have a feast.
None of us was caught at it, because they could not tell one boy from
another. During this time I watched what old people did. When I came to
grow up, I went forth equipped. I always had an amibition to do more than
the best man in the camp could do. When I went on the chase, I made up my
mind that I would bring home a buffalo or I would not go home. And my
folks rejoiced, believing that they had a good boy to help support the
family."

"We were surrounded by many different tribes, Shoshones, Sioux, Piegans,
and Gros Ventres. They were all our enemies. We often went on the
warpath against these people, because they were always trying to take our
horses and conquer our land. When we went on the warpath sometimes we
would stop and kill a buffalo and have a feast. If we could, we crawled
up on the enemy's camp and stole his horses. If we met a foe we tried to
kill him and bring his scalp home."

"Our custom of painting was a sign. If in a dream we saw any one painted,
that was our medicine. In our dreams we would see various kinds of paints
and how to use them; we would see certain birds and feathers, and we
adopted this as our style of paint. Others would try to buy from us our
style of paint. The kind of paint and feathers we wore made us brave to
do great deeds--to kill the enemy or take his horses. We did not buy
horses, but stole them. We gave the horses to our relations. If I got
one or more horses, it represented so much value to me, and brought honour
to me. And, besides, the girls admired the man who could go out and get
horses, and in this way we won a wife. After marriage I would sell a
horse, buy elk teeth, beaded leggings, and put them on my wife as a
wedding present. Elk teeth and horses were a sign of wealth. Then my
wife would make a tepee, and put it up; then I would settle down and have
a home."

"In early days we had nothing for clothing except the skins of animals.
We used the b