Then Sun made a clump of blackberry bushes and put those in
front of her trail. The woman walked on. Then Sun created beautiful
service-berry bushes which stood beside the trail. Still the woman
walked on.

So Sun made other fruits and berries. But the woman did not look at
them.

Then Sun created a patch of beautiful ripe strawberries. They were the
first strawberries. When the woman saw those, she stopped to gather a
few. As she gathered them, she turned her face toward the west. Then
she remembered the man. She turned to the Sunland but could not go on.
She could not go any further.

Then the woman picked some of the strawberries and started back on her
trail, away from the Sunland. So her husband met her, and they went
back together.

SACRED LEGEND

_Omaha_

In the beginning the people were in water. They opened their eyes, but
they could see nothing. As the people came out of the water, they
first saw the daylight. They had no clothing. Then they took weeds and
grasses and from them wove clothing.

The people lived near a large body of water; it was in a wooded
country where there was game. The men hunted the deer with clubs; they
did not know the use of the bow. The people wandered about the shores
of the great water. They were poor and cold. The people thought, "What
shall we do to help ourselves?" So they began chipping stones. They
found a bluish stone that was easily flaked and chipped; so they made
knives and arrowheads out of it. But they were still poor and cold.
They thought, "What shall we do?"

Then a man found an elm root that was very dry. He dug a hole in it
and put a stick in and rubbed it. Then smoke came. He smelled it. Then
the people smelled it and came near. Others helped him to rub. At last
a spark came. They blew this into a flame. Thus fire came to warm the
people and to cook their food.

After this the people built grass houses; they cut the grass with the
shoulder blade of a deer. Now the people had fire and ate their meat
roasted. Then they grew tired of roast meat. They thought, "How shall
we cook our meat differently?"

A man found a piece of clay that stuck well together. Then he brought
sand to mix with it. Then he molded it as a pot. Then he gathered
grass until he had a large heap of it; he put the clay pot into the
midst of the grass and set it on fire. This made the clay hard. After
a time he put water into the pot; the water did not leak out. This was
good.