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It is said that the leading ceremonial attendant was the one who 
was in the lead (as they went) around among the dwellings of the 
War gens. He was indeed the one, it is said, who asked them. 
“Have you slain game?’ he would say to those whose ceremonial 
attendant he was. 
Tt is said that all the while the offerings he was handed were being 
taken that a gens festival might be held. The meat food was brought 
together in one spot where the White Buffalo sacred pack always was. 
Then an old man that was a member of the War gens, and who 
was there, would be always told: ‘This is that one’s,” he would 
be told as it was brought in (for the feast). He would keep track 
of them. Indeed he kept track of everything. 
Those who were to give the gens festival would always think about 
the manitou in their hearts. To know what they thought in their 
hearts about their gens festival every one of those who were members 
of the War gens desired in their hearts. 
It is said that some even fasted as long as they were hunting, 
They indeed hunted in behalf cf a child. They wanted something 
which it could offer in the gens festival. 
Again, the mothers of children whose fathers were dead would 
make corn dumplings. Then sometimes they would send dried 
pumpkins along. ‘This is the (pumpkin) this one is to offer,” their 
mothers said. 
And where there were stepchildren, their stepfather hunted. He 
would seek an offering for them. When he killed something then 
that is what they offered in the gens festival. Still, that one who 
was a step-parent to children of the War gens acted as a ceremonial 
attendant. He would act as an attendant indeed after he had gone 
out to hunt. It is said that is the rule of anyone who does that. 
Then the child who was cared for by aged people would only go 
along with its grandfather when the latter went to sit as one cele- 
brating a gens festival. That child went and sat there too. It of 
course sat there as long as ghe gens festival was held. 
Those celebrating the gens festival then went out for a while. 
They took up Indian tobacco and burned it for that White Buffalo’s 
Hoof sacred pack, where it was. Then after they had come outside, 
they would throw that Indian tobacco straight up (in the air). Why 
they did this was because they wanted the manitous to know where 
they were giving the gens festival, as 1t seemed, and from where they 
came out. It is said that was the reason they did this with the 
tobacco. 
If some one, it is said, did not do that, they would not think that 
he had gone back in where the gens festival was. Whenever he went 
out it seemed as if he had departed for home. Although he would 
be sitting inside there where the gens festival was, yet the manitou 
