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has been planned,” those holding the gens festival would be told. 
“Indeed, every one of you must only think quietly in your hearts,” 
they were told. 
That was the reason why, it is said, those celebrating the gens 
festival sat there quietly. None of the young (people) talked away 
(in there). Indeed the men sat there very quietly after they had 
finished singing. 
The old men then were accustomed to do the talkmg. They would 
talk about those sacred packs, also death. They would talk about the 
final day; what those do who were always giving festivals of the 
gentes. ‘‘They were indeed going to die sometime. They were not 
going to live forever. The one who knew the songs, also the ones who 
studied about the gens festivals or in any (other) way, (was) the one 
who was to indeed die. Still at that time it will be all well for him. 
Indeed when that final day gradually comes those who believe in it 
will then be looked after. The one who did as he pleased will be 
made to worship at that time. He will be shown that worship is so 
very hard. If he worships, then at that time most likely he speak 
in vain (?). When we worship now during our life once in a while 
we do not have a hard time later on.” 
It is said that was what would be told to those celebrating the gens 
festival after they were seated. Every one of them would be told 
what to think in their hearts. They were to always think about 
worship in their hearts during the gens festival. Indeed every one 
must try to do so. They were to think alike, women as well, 
children, too. That is the reason they were told to think intently 
of the White Buffalo hide. 
Again, the one giving the gens festival was to be in fear of that 
which watched over him. It is said that those who went out piled 
Indian tobacco in the middle. Those who did not have any tobacco 
got it from the Indian tobacco which those who went out had dropped. 
It is said this is what they would say as they threw up that tobacco: 
“Smoke this, my grandfather. I am indeed going to go back inside, 
where we are worshipping,” so itis said. And it is said some (would 
say) this, ‘Smoke this, my grandfather, Gentle Manitou,” they said. 
The men, according to tradition, would say it in those two ways. 
The women would say the same thing in the two ways. 
And when they threw it on the sacred pack, according to tradition, 
they would say this, “My grandfathers, White Buffalo’s Hoof mani- 
tous, I am going to go out to rest for a little while. Indeed I am 
going to come (back).’”’ It is said that is what they would say. 
It is said those celebrating the gens festival spoke to those manitou- 
skins which were in the White Buffalo’s Hoof sacred pack. 
