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be powerful. I place my own wordin here. Accordingly you shall 
hang those (objects) wherever you live. Life is here on one side,” 
he was told where he was first addressed. ‘‘This other way is rather 
risky, but this way is a smooth way to good life. Perhaps some who 
shall live will not believe in it. That will be a long time from now, 
but at present you will think it to be true,” he was told when he 
first was addressed. 
And then again he was addressed the second time: “Do not dance 
evilly when you are dancing. Dance quietly, and do not in any way 
jest with anyone. Worship quietly. When you are worshipping, do 
that only; think humbly; do not uselessly think of flirting with each 
other. For I did not think of you in a wicked way. (If I had 
thought of you in a wicked way), then I would have given you this 
flirting the first thing, just as if I used a woman to bait you. (It will 
be) just as if I had pushed you into a lonely place; but it is not 
really so; the way I think of you is good,” he was told. 
Then he was addressed the third time: ‘“‘ Now, think of the people 
all alike, children, women, old women, men, and old men.* You are 
to think of them all alike. ‘I wish he (or she) would live righteous,’ 
is what you must think of them. Think of them only that way. Do 
not think of them, ‘I wish this one would die.’ The manitou thinks 
of you all alike. He thinks of no one less; he thinks of them all 
alike. (It is) just as if you two were only one man and only one 
woman. Your lives are all of the same extent. No person’s life is 
more than another’s. You all have the same lives. No one knows 
when he will die. 
“You are all to live the same. Now you will truly have good lives 
if you help each other. That is the way you could make each other 
happy. That is why the manitou will bless each one of you, so you 
could collectively help each others’ lives. So you must do that way; 
you are to help each other and to call each other in all kinds of ways. 
Verily always feel willing to do for each other. This you are to do as 
long as the people’s earth remains. I do not think of you here a short 
time only, but I think of you to the destruction of this earth. 
“«That is where this will lie,’®-is the thought I have for you. At 
that time you shall see us, as many as we are who have blessed you. 
For we do not think of you only for a short time,” he was told. 
And then he was addressed the fourth time. ‘‘Now, my grand- 
child, we must depart, and go and enter (the dwelling places) of your 
grandfathers. You must make your speeches in worship in suc- 
cession; my grandchild, come,”’ he was told. 
4 Singulars grammatically. 
6 A literal rendition of the Indian; I do not understand what is intended. 
