This story started out depicting who the Sioux tribe was and later describes how the Sioux tribe was chosen to receive the pipe, so to speak, by the Buffalo Calf Woman. As the author of this story notes, the members of this tribe believed that everything, whether that be people or animals, came from the Great Spirit, who was named Wakan-Tanka,otherwise deemed as God (2-3). The author has seen to have included this to show the reader that the tribe believed that everything on Earth had an origin. Later on, a woman, otherwise known as the Buffalo Calf Woman, who is wearing, as the author notes, an outfit that was comprised out of skin from a buck, which is a male animal (15), brings an object, that as the author notes, is a pipe which serves