Another man, when over 21 years old, said the Thunders had told him to do a certain thing, and had declared they would kill him if he did not obey. Accordingly, he painted a large red spot on the right-hand side of his chest. Before he began his performance, he procured a small birchbark bowl, put some water in it, and mixed it with blue earth. He caused a pole to be erected about 100 yards from his tipi. He walked around the pole and then walked toward the tipi. While he was walking toward it, a man with a bow and arrow shot an arrow into the red spot painted on his chest. The arrow went halfway through the medicineman’s body. He felt no pain and paid no attention to it. When he was about to enter the tipi, the man who had shot the arrow, finding that he could not kill the medicineman, went to him and pulled out the arrowshaft, leaving the arrowhead in his vitals. The wounded medicineman went into his tipi and walked around his bow. He was making a tremendous noise, much like thunder. He drank some of the water which he had prepared. Meanwhile, the noise did not abate. He spat out all of the blood that came from the wound. With the blood came the arrowhead. All went in to observe his condition. There he was, sitting up unconcernedly as though nothing had happened, and stronger than before. While he was making the noise like thunder, all of the Thunders sent him assistance.

The Canadian Dakota, p. 83