g, and saying that Waziya had threatened
to kill some of her relations.

Star-born said, "My friend, take your strap; we will go there."

The old woman interfered: "I have with difficulty raised my
grandchild."

Grandchild replied to this by saying, "Grandmother is very much
afraid." So the two went together.

When they came to the house of Waziya, they found a great deal of
dried meat outside. He put as much on his friend as he could carry,
and sent him home with it; then Star-born entered the tepee of Waziya,
and said to him, "Waziya, why did you answer my grandmother as you did
when I sent her to you?"

Waziya only looked angry.

Hanging there was a bow of ice. "Waziya, why do you keep this?" he
said.

The giant replied, "Hands off; whoever touches that gets a broken
arm."

Star-born said, "I will see if my arm breaks." He took the ice bow and
snapped it into many pieces, and then started home.

The next morning all the people went on the chase and killed many
buffaloes. But, as he had done before, the Waziya went all over the
field, gathered up all the meat, and put it in his blanket.

Star-born was cutting up a fat cow. Waziya came and stood there. He
said, "Who cuts this up?"

"I am," answered Star-born.

Waziya said, "From where have you come that you act so haughtily?"

"Whence have you come, Waziya, that you act so proudly?" he retorted.

Waziya said, "Fallen Star, whoever points his finger at me dies." The
young man thought, "I will point my finger at him and see if I die."
He pointed his finger, but it made no difference.

Then Fallen Star said, "Waziya, whoever points his finger at me, his
hand loses all use." So Waziya thought, "I will point my finger and
see." He pointed his finger. His forearm lost all use. Then he
pointed his finger with the other hand. It was destroyed even to the
elbow.

Then Fallen Star drew out his knife and cut up Waziya's blanket, and
all the buffalo meat he had gathered there fell out. Fallen Star
called to the people, "Henceforth kill and carry home."

So the people took the meat and carried it to their tepees.

The next morning, they say, it was rumored that the blanket of Waziya,
which had been cut to pieces, had been sewed up by his wife. He was
about to shake it.

The giant stood with his face toward the north and shook his blanket.
Then the wind blew from the north. Snow fell all about the camp so
that the people were all snowed in. They were much t