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festival. And you are to sing loudly when you sing. You shall sing 
as loud as you can. ‘This is why I tell you. 
“We are not singing sportive songs. It is as if we are weeping, 
asking for life. You are to think sadly all the time. Do not think 
of anything unnecessarily during that time. You are only to think 
quietly when you start smging. And as for this fellow, the drummer, 
he is to beat the drum vigorously. He is to sing loudly. Do not 
think of women unnecessarily (during this time). For there is no 
happy feeling when we die. Our relative feels sadly who sees us no 
more. That is why I said ‘quiet’ when I told you. It is just as if 
they, the manitous, will bless us for it. That we should be mindful 
of the manitous is why they gave us these songs. We shall not make 
them happy; that they have compassion on us; that they bless us 
is why we are given these songs. Therefore you shall believe me; 
do as I tell you. 
“You are always to sing loudly. And you are to hold the gourds 
(rattles) firmly in your hands. You will rattle them loudly. Do 
not fail to hold the gourds firmly in your hands. The manitou 
himself listens to all of them and hears how thé gourds sound. He 
would not fail to know any one who held the gourd loosely. Prob- 
ably his gourd would not be heard. That is why I tell you, ‘hold 
the gourds firmly in your hands while we sing.’ If you do that you 
will please me, and if you do not look around aimlessly, if you look 
at one spot, and if you do not move your seat while we are celebrating 
a gens festival, if you contrive to do that. If you desire long life for 
yourselves, that is what you are to do. , 
“‘Of course for a long time I shall contmue to instruct you. I 
shall continue to live for a long time. I shall’ not live for a little 
while. I shall continue to tell you this all alike as long as I shall 
continue to live. I shall continue to tell this; I shall not tell you 
another way: this will be always the one way. 
_ “Now I will instruct the women of our gens, this one gens of ours. 
This truly is how you will think. Do not think, ‘I am not a man, 
so that I should listen carefully.’ You are to remember the songs 
carefully. You are to listen carefully. And do not think, ‘if I were 
actually a man I would have (share in) the sacred pack.’ This our 
grandfather thinks of you exactly:as he thinks of us. He does not 
think, ‘I shall not care for these women.’ In whatever way he 
