When the smoke leaves your mouth, it will rise to the Creator. When you draw the smoke in into your body, you will be cleansed and made whole. He told her this, "The smoke is the breath of the Creator. Never to be joined unless the pipe is used." Uktena then showed her how place the sacred tsula into the pipe and with an ember from the fire lit the tsula so it burned slightly. The stem is from the plant kingdom, and like a man it supports the bowl, just as man supports his family." Uktena then showed Arrow Woman how to join the bowl to the stem saying, "Just as a man and a woman remain separate until joined in marriage so too are the bowl and stem separate. Just as a woman bears the children and brings forth life, the bowl bears the sacred tobacco (tsula) and brings forth smoke. The red clay is womankind and is from the Earth. "The bowl is of the same red clay the Creator used to make your kind. He said, "This that I have laid before you is the Sacred Pipe of The Creator." He then told her to pick up the pipe. In his mouth he had a strangely crooked stick and a leather pouch, which he lay on the ground in front of Arrow Woman. Uktena dipped his head below the surface and came back up a moment later. To her he said, "Put down your weapons for I mean you no harm. He spoke to the brave woman on the bank of his lake. He smiled, his mouth grinning larger than a man was tall and full of teeth longer than man's forearm. Uktena stopped a short distance from her. She raised her spear and prepared to strike the huge beast. Arrow Woman grabbed up her spear and stood up to face the great creature coming to her, standing proud, showing no fear - the way any warrior should. High above the water he raised his great serpent's head, the jewel in his forehead glistening. It was at this time that she saw Uktena, whom she had been told of when she was a child but no one in her tribe ever claimed to have seen him. The woods were quiet: Unole the wind was sleeping, Nvda the sun was shinning bright but was not hot, and the surface of the lake was completely calm. She felt strong as Yan'si the Buffalo, as if she could run faster than Coga the Raven could fly. After saying these words Yona left, Arrow Woman was tired and decided to rest a while by the lake is She built a small fire and sat down to eat a meal that she had brought with her, and as she took a drink of the water from the lake, she felt instantly refreshed. You must never tell your kind of its location for it is the home of the Great Uktena.” You are the first man creature to see the sacred lake. It is where we come for healing and strength. Yona approached her and said, "This is the sacred lake of the animals, called, 'Atagahi' and its location is known only to the animals. After a time he emerged from the water, his side completely healed. Suddenly, the grass shimmered and became a lake, and Yona dived into the water. Arrow Woman saw him bowing toward a large field of tall grass and speaking words that she had not heard before. He had a deep cut in his side and she saw him bowing down in prayer. It was in this place, a place known only to the animals that she finally saw Yona the bear. Soon she came to a place that she did not know. She saw blood on the ground and knew he was wounded, so she followed his tracks. One day while on a hunt, Arrow Woman came upon the tracks of Yona the bear. Because of all this, no man would tell her to be like a woman. Even though it was man's job to hunt and fight, Arrow Woman could shoot straighter with them, and she could throw the spear into eye of a hawk in flight. In this tribe lived a brave warrior woman called Arrow woman, who was taught to use the bow, the spear and the knife. These people were called "Ani Yun ya,"or the One True People. At this time, the animals of the world still talked to men and taught them how to live on and care for the land. Long ago, when the world was new, a tribe of red-skinned people came to live on the lands round the Blue Smoke Mountains.
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