MICHELSON.] WHITE TINY-HOOF SACRED PACK, 243 
always step on it. It is impossible for anyone tc do anything in 
secret and hide it. Surely he would be resting his feet on this earth. 
That, verily, is the reason why he has made that white tiny-hoof 
sacred pack to watch from his hoof. It is impossible for that white 
tiny-hoof sacred pack to not know about the people. Even if one 
did anything far off, it would know about him when the time came to 
worship the White Buffalo sacred pack. If he thought in his heart, 
“T shall sit down inside,’’ it is said the same would indeed happen to 
him, he would have a nosebleed. It is said that was how the people 
at that time could tell about the domgs. When some one sat down 
for a little while he was thought of the same (as others). 
The ones sitting to worship were not to cover their heads. Again, 
they sat m groups, the young men, and then the braves only; then 
again, those who had already married; then again, the old men. 
They all sat in groups, each (group) by itself. It is said they did not 
sit In any way they pleased. They sat in groups, each by itself. 
Yet it was not allowed that they talk to each other. 
Early, when the gens festival first began there would be many. 
In the afternoons, it is said, where they had been sitting the groups 
would seem to scatter. Those who had tired from sitting would go 
home. Some would only be sitting around outside. They would not 
dare to go back in to sit down. 
Some would indeed sit firmly. It is said that was what they were 
looking steadily at the White Buffalo Skin. It is said, the men who 
sat there to worship did not look far away; at that one place was 
where they were looking. If they sat firmly they would then remind 
(the heart of) the manitou. 
Then those who sat throughout, those who were not cramped at all 
from sitting, after the gens festival did not talk meanly to anyone 
for four days. They would speak gently to anyone and not only to a 
single person; again, not only to one to whom they were related, 
any one of the women and men, anybody, whoever it might be. It 
was not only a relative to whom they were to speak gently. They 
were not to speak in a mean way. They were even not to jerk any- 
thing. They only had to lead a quiet life for four days. 
Also he was not to spit inside, but outside, so that indeed no one 
might step upon their spit. They indeed spat in some uncomfortable 
place. It is said some would spit in a wooden bowl. And when four 
days were up, they took them to some water. They would put 
tobacco in it and float their spit down. That is what was done by 
those men who sat throughout the gens festival without stirring. 
