MICHELSON ] OWL SACRED PACK OF THE FOX INDIANS 25 
(These are) the eating songs. Only the gourds are rattled. The 
drum is not beaten. Nor is the flute blown. The one who gives the 
gens festival speaks first, praying to the owl who is in this sacred 
pack and the Great Manitou who made this earth, who made every- 
thing. After speaking then he says to those who are to eat, ‘‘Eat!”’ 
Then: they began singing. They use three songs. It is just three. 
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Now the medicine songs: 
I am the long flower myself, 
I am the long flower myself; 
My body has many roots; 
IT am the long flower myself.! 
The way I hold this weed of mine; 
That is how it is; 
The way I hold this weed of mine; 
That is how it is; 
The way I hold this weed of mine; 
That is how it is.” 
‘Waél I, yo+, wa! I, y6+'0’+; 
- The roots are sticking out; 
The roots are sticking out; 
‘Waé!l I, yo, was! yo+'6+.3 
If you are lying sick, 
If you are lying sick, 
I am this flower, 
Ii you are lying sick, 
If you are lying sick.* 
I am going along weeping, 
I am going along weeping; 
I have the spirit of owls, their spirit; 
I am going along weeping, 
I am going along weeping.°® 
The medincine songs are thus five. 
Now the catlinite pipe song(s): 
Here is the one who speaks of you, 
Here is the one who speaks of you, 
Here is the one who speaks of you; 
It is the manitou, it is the manitou; 
It is he; 
Here is the one who speaks of you, 
Here is the one who speaks of you.® 
4 The man who owns the sacred pack is speaking to the wounded, and is going to cure them with the 
medicine. 
5 Many have been killed and-wounded. The man goes about weeping, telling that he was blessed by 
the owl, and is to cure them by the medicine. 
6 The inner meaning of the song is: The manitou is going to smoke, and all the people will smoke. 
All should smoke who can. 
