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Tomorrow morning come down here by yourself and
bathe. Then go back to your tepee and fix yourself up
again. This is what you are to do for the next four days. Do
this when you are alone.

Because your husband is so far away,” the woman
added, “I don’t know if he will make it back to you in time
but he won’t like that other woman anymore and he will
leave her.

If he gets back, don’t pay any attention to him right
away. Make him beg you. Give him a rough time.”


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The old woman looked all of these things over and
said, “These things are good. They make me happy. Thank
you. Thank you. You make me happy. Now we can make
your man come back.”

“Early tomorrow morning,” the old woman told
Mary, “I'll come and get you and we will go down to the
water so you can bathe. But today you fix two little dolls,
one man and one woman. Fix a buckskin dress for the
woman. Make a little boat out of tree bark. Tomorrow
morning we will go down to the water and fix it. ll have
my medicine with me ”


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He came over to her and said, “Is that you, Mary?”

She hollered, “I’m Mary. What you going to do about
it. Idon’t want to see your face. Get out here.”

He said, “No, don’t talk like that. ’'m lonely. I missed
you. That’s why I came back to you. I left that other
woman. I don’t like her. She is no good.”

Mary told him, “You are no good just like that
woman. Go on and get out of here.”

He started to cry and Mary thought, “I'd better quit.
He might really get mad and leave me again.” Mary
grabbed him and hugged him.


A Pend d’Oreille Story

Told by Pete Beaverhead




Booklets available in the Level IV sequence are listed below. Numbers refer to the Planned Sequence of use
in the Teacher’s Manual. Materials developed by these tribes and others in the Northwest are included in
the Levels I, II and III sequences.

12. Chief Mountain’s Medicine
Gros Ventre Tribe from the Fort Belknap

1. Warm Springs Animal Stories
The Confederated Tribes of the Warm Springs

Sioux Tribe of the Fort Peck Reservation

11. Kootenai Stories
Salish and Kootenai Tribes of the Flathead
Reservation

Reservation of Oregon Reservation

2. Snail Women at Sq*a’le 13. Coyote the Trickster
The Suquamish Tribe of the Port Madison Burns Paiute Reservation
Reservation 14. Running Free

8. Blue Jay — Star Child/Basket Woman Shoalwater Bay
Muckleshoot Tribe 15. Salish Coyote Stories

4. Assiniboine Woman Making Grease Salish and Kootenai Tribes of the Flathead
Assiniboine Tribe of the Fort Peck Reservation Reservation

5. Coyote 16. Coyote and the Cowboys
The Confederated Tribes of the Warm Springs Shoshone-Bannock Tribes of the Fort Hall
Reservation of Oregon Reservation

6. How the Summer Season Came 17. Napi’s Journey
Assiniboine Tribe of the Fort Belknap Blackfeet Tribe
Reservation 18. Warm Springs Stories

7. Little Weasel’s Dream The Confederated Tribes of the Warm Springs
Salish and Kootenai Tribes of the Flathead Reservation of Oregon
Reservation 19. Tepee Making

8. Fort Hall Stories Salish and Kootenai Tribes of the Flathead
Shoshone-Bannock Tribes of the Fort Hall Reservation
Reservation 20. Baskets and Canoes

9. The Bear Tepee Skokomish Tribe
Northern Cheyenne Tribe 21. Warrior People

10. Sioux Stories and Legends Blackfeet Tribe




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Mary let go and the woman doll floated down the
stream. “My medicine will reach your husband today.” the
old woman said. “My medicine is strong. Four days from
today your husband will be back.”

They were a long way from Mary’s husband and the
other woman.

“He will try hard to get here in four days,” the old
woman said. “If he doesn’t get back to you in four days he
will die. There is not anything we can do to revive him, if
he doesn’t make it. When we get back to your tepee comb
your hair. Put rouge on and if you have scents, put some
on you and your bed and pillow so you and your bed will
smell good.


The old woman said, “I wasn’t thinking about you
but last night when I went to sleep, I had a dream. Some-
one pointed and said, “Look at her. She is lonely.” I looked
and it was you. You were sitting there crying. Then I saw
your husband with that other woman.” “Yes,” Mary said,
“all of that is true.”

Then the old woman told her, “I have medicine for
what I’ve been telling you about. You would have to pay a
high price if you want my medicine. You pay me with some
good things and I will fix it so you will get your man back.
Icannot do it for nothing. I want to be happy too. You will
be happy and I will be happy too with the things you
give me.”




Mary Queequeesue was telling on herself about
when she was still a young woman. Mary said, “I got mea
husband, a young husband. I was just starting to really
like him and was getting used to having him around when
another woman ran off with him. He got himself another
wife, a younger wife. They were married by a priest and I
started crying around.”








Mary Queequeesue’s 4’
Love Story /



Mary told her mother about this and her mother
said that she would help her. “Here,” Mary’s mother said,
“is a woman’s dress.”

It was a real nice dress, a real nice buckskin blanket,
a pair of moccasins and some other things that she laid
down in front of the woman to see.

“You already know what the horses look like.” she
told the old woman. “When my man comes back, these are
things I am going to give you. You can take all of these
here now and when the man comes back, you may take the
horses. Will all of this make you happy? Is it enough?”




When the Indians moved to the prairies for their
summer hunting, Mary went with them. They were
already on the plains and Mary was still crying around.

One day early in the morning an old woman came
into her tepee and sat down next to her. “I am going to tell
you something.” she said. “Go ahead and tell me.” Mary
told her. “You are very lonely for your husband because he
ran off and got a younger wife and you have been lonely
and crying around. “Yes, I have been.” Mary said.


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One day went by, then two and three. Finally some-
time early on the fourth day, just past midnight, Mary was
still awake when she heard a horse coming. Her husband
must have stopped at other camps and asked which one
was hers. He came up to the tepee and stopped. He came
in. When he came in he looked around. There was a moon
so Mary could see him clearly.


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The stayed together for a long time after that until
one day Mary told him that he could leave if he wanted to.
She was getting old. That was when they split up for good
and she married Queequeesue.


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Early the next morning before the sun came up the
old woman came in and asked Mary if she was ready. Mary
said, “Yes.” “Okay, let’s go.” the old woman told Mary.

They went down to the water and when they got
there the old woman said, “Take off your clothes. We are
going to bathe.”

They bathed and the old woman told Mary, “Go get
the little dolls and the boat that you made.”

Mary went after them. They walked back into the
water up to their knees.

“Okay, now put the two dolls on the boat. That man
doll is your husband and the woman doll is the one he ran
off with. This is my medicine.” She fixed her medicine.
After she did that she told Mary, “Take the male doll back.
Let the woman in the boat go because that is the woman
that ran off with your husband.”