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The young men were indeed the ones who gave speeches like that. 
Some at last become old men. It is said they were always the same 
ones who spoke like that, those who started to speak beginning from 
their youth up. They talked to the White Buffalo’s Hoof sacred pack. 
They also spoke for every one of the people who were worshipping, 
‘indeed for every one of those who were in that house where they were 
worshipping. Indeed it is said that some young men even wept 
when they first began to give speeches. Whenever, it is said, they 
would weep many (others) would weep too. They wept because they 
felt so humble in their hearts. Whenever they would weep it is said 
they would go and sit down where the White Buffalo’s Hoof sacred 
pack was. 
Every one of those celebrating the gens festival then smoked the 
sacred packs with tobacco whenever those who were making their 
first speeches wept. 
Now as to the one who gave instructions to the attendant. It is 
said that there was just one who did that. It was one who seemed to 
ask the attendants how their cooking was progressing. Yet he could 
only speak to the leading attendant. ‘‘ How is their cooking pro- 
gressing?”” he said to him, that the latter might know always how 
their cooking was progressing. It is said that was what he did. 
Then again, there was one who was to distribute (the kettles of 
food). He would give it out to any member of the gens. Those 
who were members of that gens would invite each other only after 
being given (a kettleful of food). Then that one who has charge of 
how the attendants should cook, is the one that has his own will 
about how long a time the gens festival should last. 
And the one who lives in that house only sits there as long as the 
gens festival is going on. He is the only one, it is said, who is exempt 
from the rules of the religion. Whenever he wants to go out, he goes 
right on out. He is the only one. He is exempt from the rule 
because it is said he alone lives with the sacred packs. He takes 
care of them. ; 
It is said that the house where those sacred packs hung was always 
taken good care of. It is said that the fire was never handled in 
jerks; it was gently. The fire was considered just like a human 
where those (sacred packs) hung. It is said that it was never spat 
upon. The fire was indeed kept very clean where those (sacred 
packs) hung. 
Again, bones of any kind were never burned there. The only 
thing, it is said, that was burned was Indian tobacco, a little at a 
time and at intervals. Again later on evergreen tree wood was 
burned there. It is said that was how those sacred packs were made 
strong. It is said that was the reason why they always burned the 
evergreen tree wood and also that Indian tobacco. That was the 
reason why they burned them little at a time, because they made the 
sacred packs strong. 
