ame, and soared
over the people. It dropped a downy feather which stood upright in the
center of the cleared space. The chief said, "This is what we want."

So the feathers of this eagle were used in making the peace pipes,
together with the feathers of the owl and woodpecker, and with other
things. These peace pipes were to be used in forming friendly
relations with other tribes.

When the peace pipes were made, seven other pipes were made for
keeping peace within the tribe. One pipe was to prevent revenge. If
one man should kill another, the chief took this pipe to the relatives
and offered it to them. If the relatives of the dead man refused to
accept it, it was offered again. It was offered four times. If it was
refused four times, the chief said, "Well, you must take the
consequences. We will do nothing, and you cannot now ask to see the
pipes." He meant if they took revenge and any trouble came to them,
they could not ask for help or for mercy.

Each band had its own pipe.

A TRADITION OF THE CALUMET

_Lenni-Lenapi_

In the days of the old men, far to the north there lived a nation with
many villages. Their warriors were as many as the buffalo herds on the
plains toward the Darkening Land. Their tepees were many on the shores
of a beautiful lake and along wide rivers.

Then the Mysterious One, whose voice is in the clouds, told the chiefs
of a great nation, also of many villages, which hunted through all the
country from the Big Water in the sunrise to the mountains in the
Darkening Land.

Then the chiefs and the old men held a council. Runners came from many
villages to the great council. And the council voice was to go to the
great nation to the south, the nation with many villages, and bring
back scalps and horses.

So the chiefs and warriors went out, one by one. Then runners were
sent to all the villages, ordering the chiefs to dance the scalp
dance.

Suddenly there came through the sky a great white bird. It came from
the forest, and flew into the village of the great chief. It rested
above the head of the chief's daughter.

Then the chief's daughter heard a voice in her heart. The voice said,
"Call all the chiefs and warriors together. Tell them the Mysterious
One is sad because they seek the scalps of the Lenni-Lenapi, the First
People. Tell the warriors they must wash their hands in the blood of a
young fawn. They must go with many presents to the First People. They
must carry to t