chee. He wanted to ask the old man about the name, but did not get a chance. So the next

n and our people know. According to the story, the first redbreas

t it," said t

ve warrior, had an only child, a little son. The boy was a bright little fellow, but not very strong. Somehow he was not so big and hardy as the other

The longer you fast, the greater and wiser you will become. I want you to fast longer than any other Indian has ever fasted. If you do this, the Good M

whatever you bid me. But I fear that

or five days. I want you to fast for twelve days, then you will have strong dreams. Now I will go into the

m to the fasting lodge and left him there. The boy stretched hims

son and asked him about his dreams. Each time t

aker and weaker. On the eleve

ough to fast longer. I am very weak. The Man-i

ly; 'make your heart strong. Yet a little while and the Man-

sadly and his father w

ar to the fasting lodge, he h

nd yet unlike, the voice of his son. 'I am not strong enough. He sh

warrior. But you shall not die. From this time you shall be a bird. You shall fly about in

and looked within. No one was there, only a brown bird with a gray

m free from pain and sorrow. It was not the will of the Man-i-to that I should become the greatest warrio

ms, I shall go away to the warm land of the South. But in the spring, when the snows begin to melt, I shall return. And when the c

nging, they say, 'There is O-pee-chee, the bird that was o