MICHELSON.] BEGINNING OF STORY HOW ANY ONE DIES. 397 
who bury (the dead) feast then for (four days). And after they 
have feasted, at nights those who died would take (the food) to 
Aiyapa ti’. That is how the story goes, as much as I have heard it. 
To be sure they tell it all sorts of ways. 
And when people die here, they arrive at the land of ghosts. Now 
when any one dies he stays a long time here. He lives with the 
people. Only after an adoption-feast has been held for them, could 
they go. That is what (people) usually say; I do not know if they 
speak the truth. This is what they do when any one is released by 
an adoption-feast. And they speak to them a little differently when 
they address them. So I shall tell about a person being adopted. 
This is what (the dead) is told: ‘‘ Well, this day you are going straight 
to our nephew.”’ That is, so it seems, what the people who first 
came to live, said to each other. ‘‘This is what you must tell our 
nephew.’ The one who delivers the speech calls the one who is 
being adopted by the kinship-term (of the dead). Those who are 
being adopted hold tobacco in their hands. Oh, it may be his™ son 
for whom the adoption-feast is held. ‘“‘Now my son, as you walk 
away ceasing to dwell on the surface of the earth, you are to depart 
leaving these, your relatives, all your different relatives here. This 
is how our nephews have made plans for us, so that some of us might 
live with each of our nephews. That is why our lives are so, for it 
has already been planned for us. So you are summoned to walk 
away quietly and slowly. As you walk away you will constantly 
think of (what you have been told)’’ he is told, “that is how our 
nephews already have made it a rule for us to follow, namely, to 
leave life with your relatives in good cheer.’’ That is what an 
adopted person is told. 
And this one other little thing also, of the same character, will I 
tell. When the one adopted goes around giving invitations, those 
invited are supposed to be ghosts. That is why a large amount of 
food is used, because it is supposed to be food for the ghosts. That 
is what they usually say. That is what I know of it, (and) how I 
have heard. This is all I have to tell, that is all I have heard. This 
story has been collected from the time the younger brother of this 
Wisa'kii'“ was slain. It is derived from there. That is as much 
as | remember, my friends, so that Wapinenu'sw“’ may look (at what 
has been written). 
And there is another story when some one first dies and when a 
gens festival is held over the person. When a person dies in the 
evening is why a gens festival is given. A gens festival of a dog or 
beans is held. The Spirit of Fire is addressed: ‘‘Now my grand- 
father, Spirit of Fire, you have been placed here to uprightly tell 
your grandchildren when something happens to their lives. You 
shall be the first to gladly receive this Indian tobacco. And the 
11 The bereaved one’s. 
