Crow Chief always warns the buffalo that hunters are coming, until Falling Star, a savior, comes to camp, tricks Crow Chief, and teaches him that all must share and live like relatives together.

Brave Bear outwits four ghosts who are trying to scare him.

Iktomi, the Plains Indian trickster, interrupts a powwow of the Mouse People and gets his head stuck in a buffalo skull. Asides and questions printed in italics may be addressed by the storyteller to listeners, encouraging them to make their own remarks about the action.

Relates Iktomi's fruitless efforts to pick some buffalo berries.

Based on a Lakota myth in which a mysterious woman returns the buffalo and the other animals to the Indian people.