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ploughing and know the very spot. After each one has replied, the host 

 tells of his own dream. At times four or five men have seen the identical 

 site, which is then chosen for the place of the ceremony. 



Lone-tree says that at this gathering any member of the society 

 may attend and that a dance is held. If no one present has dreamt of a 

 definite site/ the Mixers determine the locality. This happened at 

 Lodge-Grass in 1911 (Old-dog). . 



In 1914 Muskrat said she had dreamt of a site nearby, but the people 

 wanted to plant on the Little Bighorn near One-star's encampment. A 

 messenger was dispatched to her in order to gain her consent through a 

 promise of money and food, but she refused. At last they offered her a 

 pipe and after smoking it she agreed to be the leader. Thus she reluc- 

 tantly yielded. They wanted her to ride on a horse but though she was 

 crippkd and used crutches she walked over to the preferred site. She 

 looked it over but did not like it. Accordingly, while planting there 

 to accommodate the other people, she did most of her personal Tobacco 

 planting nearby to satisfy herself. 



Between the time of this gathering and the planting ceremony the 

 members gather all fresh bones, pound them up and get together as 

 much lard as possible. The Mixers generally supply meat for hash, 

 to be paid later to non-members who assist in the construction of the 

 garden enclosure and similar tasks. 



The proper season for the mixing is in May, "when the chokecherries 

 are ready" (blossoming). Later in the spring the man who invited the 

 Mixers for a discussion of their dreams announces, "I am going to move 

 near the site." He moves and the other people follow, the whole tribe 

 camping near the site. The Mixers prepare pemmican and on the same 

 day all of them mix Tobacco seed, each in a separate tipi. The most 

 circumstantial account was given by Pretty-tail. As stated elsewhere 

 the details of the mixing vary slightly. In former times they 

 gathered elk, deer, or buffalo dung to mix with the Tobacco, also differ- 

 ent kinds of flowers, roots, and wild onions, according to their dreams 

 Now cow dung and eight different roots and flowers are used. The 

 Tobacco seeds are mixed in a wooden bowl with a red ring painted on the 

 inside. Formerly a dipper of buffalo horn was used, at present one of 

 cow horn is substituted. Pretty-tail shakes his rattle and begins to sing 

 while his wife, Strikes-in-the-house, sits by him. At the close of each 

 song she makes a motion above a bucket of water as if about to dip in 

 her ladle until after the fourth song she actually dips the horn into the 

 vessel and pours water into the bowl up to the red ring, when she lays 



