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Again, that one who beat the drum was not indeed (permitted) to 
go out all day long. That was the rule for him. It is said that 
whenever he had gone in where the gens festival was, he was then 
not to go out. Again, it is said, he ceased to speak from the time 
those celebrating the gens festival had seated themselves. It is 
said it was against the religion for him to speak in any way. He 
only sat there. After the singing he would sit there. He would 
even not laugh. He only was to sit there. Indeed his rule was 
such that he did not have to listen to anybody there. If he did that, 
he would be considered worthless among the manitous, it is said. 
That is, if the drummer should listen to anyone who was talking, 
indeed, any of them. Again, it is the rule that those celebrating 
the gens festival must not speak to the drummer. It is said that 
they were being watched closely by the White Buffalo’s Hoof sacred 
pack (that they might not do it). 
Then again, there was one who gave speeches. Indeed that same 
one was always there to give speeches as long as he lived. Only when 
he died, did another begin to give speeches. 
When the time came for one to be installed, as it were, who they 
thought would know how to give speeches, then the White Buffalo’s 
Hoof sacred pack alone would be worshipped. Then that (one who 
was desired to give speeches) would be the one to be thought of 
thus, ‘This is the one who is to continue to speak our prayer.” 
It is said that is all that is said. That one would then begin to 
try to make speeches. After he had become careful in making 
speeches, he would then tell his own gens about it. They would 
then give a gens festival. 
Indeed, just when noon came, he would give a speech for the first 
time. He would cease talking when the gens festival ceased. He 
was not to stop talking before. That, it is said, is what they did at 
first. Then from then on at another gens festival a little later on 
they themselves ended their speech just as they wished. It is said 
when someone thought in his heart, “I am going to talk long again,” 
he would say what he had said at first in his speech. 
Indeed it was all the same. Still, he had to do that over four 
times. It is said that was the way they did. If, however, those 
who talked did like that four times, it is said they were then thought 
a great deal of. It is said then that it is known that the White 
Buffalo’s Hoof sacred pack loved those who were known to have 
given four long speeches like that. That was the reason why they 
were careful to give four long speeches. 
