American Indian Trickster Tales (Myths And Legends) - Plot & Excerpts
{Rosebud Sioux} Iktomi was walking about, looking for what he could find. He came across a herd of Hehaka, elk. It was summer. The grass was high. There was food aplenty. The elk were sleek and fat. With their huge antlers they looked so handsome, stately, and powerful. Iktomi envied the elk’s beauty and way of life. He looked at his reflection in the nearby stream. “How shabby I am,” he said to himself, “ugly, small, pitiful, insignificant.” Iktomi sought out the tallest among the elk. “This must be the chief,” he thought. Humbly he approached, saying: “Lekshi, uncle, you are so handsome, so imposing, every inch a great chief, and I am so small, homely, hairy—a nobody. But we have one thing in common. You, mighty Hehaka, are known to have the love magic, the power to make women love you. You have the love charm, the love wink in your eye. Insignificant nobody that I am, I, too, am a great lover.” “Is that so?” said Hehaka. “Mi lekshi, uncle of mine, you have the power, you can do anything.
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