"And then I awoke on my bed yonder all in awe at the power of my vision, My food pouch was beside me. But when I came to our bone pit - wonder of wonders it had become, as you all saw this morning, a heap of snow white ash.

"As you all know, when I was a new born infant, my mother who was called New Moon, took me down to the river to wash me and I grabbed a handful of mud and put it to my mouth. So I am called Mud. Although what help that may be, I know not.

"So to solve this mystery and to find wisdom, I, and my younger son Red Deer, will leave before dawn on a spirit quest. My oIder son, Wise Owl, will be your chief, medicine man and storyteller in our absence."