MICHELSON. ] WHITE TINY-HOOF SACRED PACK, 239 
Because their old member had simply thought (that they should 
do that), the one who was blessed by the White Buffalo, is why 
they could rub down those who were so afflicted, those made crippled 
from sitting while they were holding such gens festivals. The men 
were the only ones, it is said, who thus became crippled from sitting. 
Why they were being watched was that they might truly indeed 
lead careful, upright lives; that they might not do something in 
secret. That is why, it is said, they were being watched very closely; 
also that they might not think evil in their hearts in secret. Then 
again, that they might sit only firmly, just as long as the sacred packs 
were spread out. 
Especially when the White Buffalo sacred pack was spread out it 
is said that then all exhibited quietness indeed, as many as were 
seated inside. It seemed, it is said, that they had seen the Gentle 
Manitou, and also the White Buffalo while they thought of them. 
Those who knew how to speak would always give speeches. They 
would speak (and pray) for everyone’s life. Indeed anyone asked 
for (long) life, and not only the one who was giving the gens festival. 
It was anyone. 
Every one of those giving the gens festival wished the people to 
carefully follow their worship. Those men are now spoken of as 
the ones who sit to smoke. Long ago they were spoken of as ones 
who sit to worship. 
They were not to smoke. They were only to keep sitting there, 
yet they had to do hard things. It is said that if some one should 
sit with his legs stretched out he would have to sit like that. Even 
no one should move his hands. Indeed one had to try very hard 
to think about the manitou. That, they say, is what one is expected 
to do. That is the reason they sit firmly. The one who remembers 
all his relations, and is fond of his various relatives, he is that one 
who tries to do that. 
And some man, when he knew about evil medicine and when he 
desired not to be found out, he thought in his heart to cover him- 
self, as it seemed; then he tried to do that, namely, to sit all day 
long without moving. In a little while, it is said, after sitting there 
he would arise. It is said that some who did that desired in their 
hearts to nevertheless sit there. When something happened to them, 
they would indeed have to get up. It is said that was another thing 
happened to them. 
Then again, those who were thought of by the little evil manitous 
went to sleep at noon. They would be awakened at that time. 
“Depart,” they would be told by the ceremonial attendant. That 
again is what happened to them. 
