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would be curing each one of his fellow people. Any knowledge he 
may have, he can simply practice it. He could not but do that. 
That is what I call a good life for you. Now the manitou has given 
you this, you personally saw how he looked, and you know that he 
gave it to you. He has given you things equally alike. If you had 
not thought me a liar in the first place, he would have contrived to 
have given you more. Even now, when you hate him, nevertheless 
he has satisfied you. So if you do that, the manitous will continually 
bless each and every one of you. That probably was what he has 
given you to do,” he told the people. “I am going to commence 
fasting myself,’”’ he told them. 
He was made to live in a very lonely place. The young men who 
were fasting were living everywhere. And it is said the young girls 
were fasting everywhere. 
After they both had been fasting eight years, then it is said they be- 
gan to be blessed by the one called a manitou. All of them were 
blessed by the manitous. Some were empowered to make sacred 
packs. And it is said more were blessed in this manner, namely, to 
make sacred packs. And one was blessed with the mystic rite, and 
one was blessed to be a successful doctor, and one to be a prophet, 
and one with the wizard rite. And one was blessed with all kinds of 
herbs and weeds. Several were thought of in regard to buffalo sacred 
packs. 
And that young man was blessed by a white buffalo. He was led 
around. First he was led east. Then he was told: “‘ Now, my grand- 
child, 1 now bless you, because you have greatly starved artnet 
That is why I thought of you, ‘I shall bless my grandchild.’ I think 
of you just what I shall say to you. And surely I shall do just as I 
say to you. I do not think this of you: (Just for fun) I shall fool 
him by what I say. Long ago, before you were a child, I knew that 
I would bless you; verily that has come to pass to you, my grand- 
child. So as regards this life of yours, you shall reach just as far as 
it goes; you shall live that long; your life shall not end any sooner. 
As I say to you is how you shall live. But you must very much 
love the way I think of you. You must love this sacred pack just 
as much as you love your life; you are to call by that name, that with 
which you shall live. For you shall live with it. And you must 
hang it half the height of the wickiup. But always you must con- 
tinue to worship it. You must continue to worship it just as long 
as you continue to liye. This kind of ceremony only is what you 
must talk well of to each other. This will be good to you, a mortal, 
what I think of you. If you are careful, the way I think of you will 
