MICHELSON. ] WHITE TINY-HOOF SACRED PACK, 935 
After they had eaten, that man would go outside by the East door. 
But he would have to give thanks. After he had stood near the 
door, it is said, he would say this: ‘‘Those with whom I am related 
in all ways, White Tiny-hoof Sacred Pack, buffaloes, to those with 
whom I am related in all ways,’ ! the one said who would not sit 
still. It is said then he would be considered all right when he gave 
thanks. 
Some, it is said, could not give thanks when there were many 
people. Those, it is said, would be told, “‘ Why, indeed he is wicked,”’ 
that is what would be said of those who could not give thanks. 
Every man seated, alike is watched over by it that way; as many as 
were sitting in that gens festival. Indeed he must sit upright. That 
is what is expected of aman. As he sat when he first came in, that 
is the way he must always sit. Some try hard to do this, to sit like 
that throughout the gens festival. 
(This applies to) one who sat there, not a dancer. He (a dancer) 
was the one who went repeatedly outside to cool by the wind. Yet 
every time there was a dancing song he would have to dance. But 
the sacred pack also would watch over him. 
The one who sat still seemed as though he was fasting. Usually, it 
is said, they would not sit like that all day long. Some got tired 
before. It is said that some did as they pleased and ate whenever 
they wanted to. Again, they indeed were to eat whatever they 
wanted to eat. 
And those who had gone through that seem to have nothing to do 
but only sit there quietly. They did not have to sit continuously 
there upright. They only had to sit there quietly, just as they had 
seated themselves. It is said that was what they did. They did 
as they pleased and ate whenever they wanted to. 
Again, it is said, those who had wives said, ‘Call her,’’ after they 
had been served. When their wives came,’ they ate. They sat 
wherever (their husbands) sat. After they had eaten, they them- 
selves (the men) said to them, “Now depart.’’ Only then would 
they leave. If they did not say that to them, they sat there just as 
long as (the men) sat there. 
It is said this was also what those that had gone through (the per- 
formance) did when they sat like that. They were the ones who thus 
called in their wives. When they merely sat there like that during 
the worship of the White Buffalo Sacred Pack, they too were thought 
of by the manitous. 
That was the reason then, those who sit throughout indeed urged 
each other. Indeed they were thought a great deal of. 
? 
1 Supply ‘‘I thank.” 
? Free on account of the impossibility of translating literally without violating English idiomatic usage 
