He went to some of the people who were still alive, and said to them, “How is it that you people do nothing to these animals that are killing you?” The people replied, “What can we do?  These animals are armed and can kill us, and we have no way to kill them.”

The creator said, “That is not hard.  I will make you something that will kill these animals.”

He went out and cut some straight service-berry shoots, and brought them in, and peeled the bark from them.  He took a larger piece of wood and flattened it, and tied a string to it, and made a bow.  Now he was the master of all birds and he went out and caught one, and took feathers from its wings and tied them to the shaft of wood.  He tied four feathers along the shaft and tried the arrow at a mark and found that it did not fly well.  He took off these feathers and put on three, and when he again tried it at the mark he found that it went straight.  He picked up some hard stones, and broke sharp pieces from them.  When he tried them he found that the black flint stones made the best arrow points.  He showed them how to use these things.

Then he spoke to the people, and said, “The next time you go out, take these things with you, and use them as I tell you.  Do not run from these animals.  When they rush at you, and have come pretty close, shoot the arrows at them as I have taught you, and you will see that they will run from you or will run around you in a circle.”

He also broke off pieces of stone, and fixed them in a handle, and told them that when they killed the buffalo they should cut up the flesh with these stone knives.

One day after this, some people went on a little hill to look about, and the buffalo saw them and called out to each other, “Ah, there is some more of our food,” and rushed upon them.  The people did not run.  They began to shoot at the buffalo with the bows and arrows that had been given them, and the buffalo began to fall.  They say that when the first buffalo hit with an arrow felt it prick him, he called out to his fellows, “Oh, my friends, a great fly is biting me.”

With the flint knives that had been given them they cut up the bodies of the dead buffalo.  About this time Old Man came up and said to them, “It is not healthful to eat raw flesh.  I will show you something better than that.”  He gathered soft, dry rotten wood and made punk of it, and took a piece of wood and drilled a hole in it with an arrow point, and gave them a pointed piece of hard wood, and showed them how to make a fire with fire sticks, and to cook the flesh of animals.

After this the people found a certain sort of stone in the land, and took another harder stone, and worked one upon the other and hollowed out the softer one, so as to make of it a kettle.

It is told also that the creator made people and animals at another place, and in another way.  At the Porcupine Mountains he made other earthen images of people, and blew breath on the images, and they became people.  They were men and women.  After a time they asked him, “What are we to eat?” Then he took more earth and made many images in the form of buffalo, and when he had blown on them they stood up, and he made signs to them and they started to run.  He said to the people, “There is your food.”