MICHELSON. ] WHITE TINY-HOOF SACRED PACK, Dea 
It was said a young man was giving that gens festival. It was he 
who spoke to the men in that way. Whenever the men were spoken 
to in this way, it is said, they would all bow their heads down. It is 
said they listened with attention. 
Also it was not allowed that they lean against something as they 
sat. Indeed they were to sit upright. 
They might go outside only when they were on the point of 
urinating. 
That is the way this White Tiny-hoof Sacred Pack watches over 
the men only. Those (women) who have ceased to menstruate are 
considered as men. It is said the men alike are only expected to be 
earnest in their hearts about worshipping. It is said that they knew 
that the manitou thought of them all alike. 
At that time if some one goes out several times, even his fellow- 
Indians would take notice of him. 
Again, while some one would lie down a ceremonial attendant 
would go over and tell him of it. ‘‘ Well, if you depart, you then 
might lay around in your home. There would be no one to say 
anything to you. As it is now, in here you are in the way of those 
who are worshipping the manitou,”’ he would be told. Even though 
if anyone was feared, he would be told the same thing by the cere- 
monial attendant. It is said that he would then truly have to 
leave. If he kept sitting there and did not leave it is said that he 
would never be fed. As long as the gens festival was going on he 
would not eat. And if he left, it is said, he would be invited when- 
ever the attendants would go out toinvite. Still, after he had eaten, 
he would have to go out and leave. He would not think in his heart 
of keeping on sitting there. That is what they did to them too. 
And thenthe one who did not lie downis the one who is complimented 
by that sacred pack, also the one who does not stir from his seat 
when his legs go to sleep is given a compliment by it in the same 
way. Also with regard to the one who never thinks wickedness in 
his heart of anything, it is just the same. And the one who sees a 
woman when he goes out, whom the woman can not stir when she 
tempts him with her speech, he also is the one who is complimented 
by that sacred pack. And the one who sits unmoved in a smoky 
place, who never covers his face is another one. When anyone does 
all these things he is the same. 
One who indulges in the festivals of gentes in a quiet and earnest 
way, truly his life is right. 
Indeed no matter how many men there are inside in the gens 
festival, they will not be unknown to the manitou’s thought. They 
are put there by the White Buffalo to be watched over. 
