MICHELSON] OWL SACRED PACK OF THE FOX INDIANS 43 
The one that continues to think of it is the one that will be thought of. 
He will not become sick. Moreover, if your foes fight with you, he is 
the one who will not be shot. And some will think you funny. 
Such a one will truly die even if he is hit on the ear. This is why 
that will happen to him, because he did not listen to you. 
“And all the manitous will hear the flute when you blow it. As 
many times as you blow it, he will hear it, though its sound does not 
go very far. But even the one who is above will hear it. But he 
will only hear it when a dance is given. If, now, you hold a small 
_ gens festival he will not hear it. But these other manitous,' those 
who have been mentioned, will hear it always. Truly that (manitou 
who is above) will only hear it when there is a large gens festival. 
And you are only to blow this flute loudly when you give dances, 
only then. Now when you hold small gens festivals, you are not to 
blow it loudly then. You are to blow it softly when a few of you 
celebrate a gens festival. 
“You shall truly continue to tell that to those who will be of your 
gens in the future (i. e., generation after generation). Do not think 
of concealing from them anything that I tell you. We all think of 
you alike. We think less of no one; (we think of you all) alike. 
‘Would that our grandchildren lived good lives,’ we think of 
you. Therefore if you thus think the same of each other, we 
shall be glad. That is what we desire you to do, namely, to think 
the same of each other. He who made you move, thinks a great 
deal of you. It isthe same as if you had his body. He who made 
you move, thinks a great deal of you. This is why he thinks of you, 
your breath is the same as his breath. When he attached his mind 
to it, he breathed his own breath into you. 
“That truly is why he told all the manitous to bless you, thus he 
told them. ‘We shall all have (you) for (our) grandchildren,’ he 
said to them. ‘But they themselves shall raise tobacco for them- 
selves. Truly we shall think highly (of receiving) it from them. 
Likewise we shall not steal it from them, for we are to be manitous. 
But we shall not make tobacco. Only when they, our grandchildren, 
offer us a smoke, shall we smoke. And if any one does not bestow a 
blessing on them, he shall never smoke tobacco,’ they were told. 
‘That (tobacco) shall be something which as many of us as are called 
manitous shall think difficult (to obtain). We shall not own it. 
Even I shall not save it, though I made it. But Ishall not even save 
it for myself. That truly is why I firmly tell you to bless the future 
people. And when you bless them you will please me.’ For we 
were told this at the time when he had placed this earth for you to 
roam about. : 
1 Grammatically singular, but the meaning is plural. 
