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Show 84 The Southern Utes have to leave their nest. The boy decided this was the opportunity for him to get down to his camp. He tied rawhide to all the eagle's legs and fastened them to this arms. In this way they all could take him out of the nest and down from the high cliff. When the time came, the eagles, instead of going directly to his camp area, soared high into the sky and went to a big hole in the sky and here they met a larger eagle. While they were there, the boy accidentally kicked a pebble and saw it fall to the earth. Just watching his pebble fall, the boy became very lonesome and wished that he could return to the earth and to his wife. He strapped the rawhide to the eagle's legs and to his arms as he had done before and soon they left the big eagle in the sky. When they reached the earth, the eagles took him to his camp, and he untied the rawhide and thanked the eagles for all they had done for him. When he saw his wife, she did not seem happy to see him. He found out that she was unhappy because she was now married to his brother. He couldn't fight for his woman because he was so skinny. The Crazy Indian Boy A group of Indians were looking for a good place to settle down. When they found the place, the men of the tribe told the women to set up a temporary camp as they did not want to stay there permanently. The men noticed that wild game was most appropriately abundant in this area and so they decided that they would go on a hunt as soon as possible. The crazy little Indian boy begged to go along with the hunters of the tribe, but he was told to stay behind with the women and help them set up camp. When the hunters left, he decided he would follow them a little ways and soon he found that the hunters had been captured by the enemy (Cheyenne Indians). He watched to see what the enemy was going to do with the hunters. The hunters managed to escape and alerted the other men in the camp that the enemy was near. The next day the men attacked the Cheyenne Indians and they had an enormous battle. The crazy little Indian boy was told to stay home again with the women. He followed, as usual, and when he came to a clearing he saw that his tribe was being killed because they had run out of ammunition. The crazy little boy started to run between the line of fire and with his little apron he started to collect all the enemy's bullets that were being fired at him. The bullets didn't seem to harm the crazy little boy. When he had collected many bullets |