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merely to show that you love your gens name.” You should not do 
it all the time, but just sometimes, you should cook for each other. 
That is one thing I tell you. This is why you ought to do this. 
One manitou has the control over the names; verily it is he whom 
you should worship, it is he whom you would please by doing that. 
“Tf anyone does that all the time, if he pleases him, he might 
simply live on and on. That is why he would live long: he would 
be blessed by that one who has control over the names to live a long 
time. I do not tell you, ‘Do that!’ 
“T am simply telling you this, the only way to live, although I shall 
inform you all later on,” he told them. 
Then, it is said, again the next day he cooked for them. After four 
days were up, they each took away their medicine. All of them took 
it away. So they called it the way that person named it; “life” was 
what they called it. 
Then, it is said, soon he called the people together. He related to 
them all: ‘“ Now, this is one, the only way; if you do that, you could 
please one manitou, not two manitous, but only one manitou, the one 
who has control of what we call each other—that is, our names. 
One bemg has control over them; it is he whom you could please if 
you cook for each other once in a while. You are not to cook for me, 
and not (for each other) all the time; just sometimes some one might 
do that; whoever thinks of his life, ‘I will just do that.’ He would 
not have to name the manitou; only ‘eat,’ is all he has tosay. Then 
the only thing he should say after the people have eaten, ‘Now, you 
may each go home, all of you who are my different relatives.’ Those 
are the only two speeches. 
“Then the one who has the control over the names would be pleased, 
for we do not own these, our names. One manitou has control over 
them. It is just the same as how long they will continue to be. 
‘This one shall be so long,’ when he thinks thus, it is that long and 
will not be mentioned any longer. That name is no longer used at 
that time. At that particular time is when we die. We shall not 
live any longer. That is why I tell this to you all, that this is the 
only way, the general cooking for each other. Whoever thinks of 
this is the person who will make his life happy. He will not make 
anybody else happy but himself only. That is all I have to tell you. 
The reason why I have called you together is so you all could know 
about it.” 
& A trifle free. 
