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adoption) he was first fed. ‘To-morrow at noon,’’ he was told. He 
was not told to bring his clothing. And the next day at noon he 
was summoned to eat, and to be clothed. Then they began to clothe 
him. And one man spoke while the other was being clothed. This 
is what he said: “Well, this is the reason why you have been selected, 
that you be made to do an errand. You will become a relative of 
he who employs you.”” That, it seems, is what the one who spoke 
to him said to him. ‘This (man) will be related to you in the same 
way he was to his dead (relative). He will be as fond of you as he is 
of his relatives. That is why he selects you to be his relative,’ the 
one adopted was told. ‘‘You are to visit him always,” is what he 
was told, the one who first (experienced) this, the one adopted, when 
he was first spoken to. 
Then as soon as the one adopted was clothed he again stopped to 
standup. And hewas made to hold bark tobacco in (one) hand, and 
he held Indian tobacco in the other, just as if he were bringing it to 
Aiyapa'ti'*". Then, it seems, the speaker began speaking. “Now 
to-day your relatives let you walk away, going straight to our nephew 
Aiyapa'tai’*’. Only you must tell him quietly, ‘this is what they 
whom I have left on the earth told me,’”’ he was told, ‘when they 
let me walk here with tobacco in my hand, and this food also,’ ”’ he 
was told. “You may quietly walk away so that you may leave 
these your relatives satisfied with old age. And you may report for 
them that they may wear blankets, and (obtain) old age and also 
this food. In that way our nephew, who will be the first to be 
satisfied, will feel better,’ he was told. 
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As soon as he had been told the entire story, he began to walk in a 
circle around the wickiup. That is what these people do when they 
give an adoption-feast. And that is why they walk around in a 
circle; it is the last time they walk around within (the wickiup); 
when they go out, they go out forever; and they never will enter 
within (the wickiup) again. That is what they do. Now the fourth 
time they walk in a circle, they go outside. They go out the east 
door. That is what they do. 
And then they go around inviting (people); they invite those who 
are to eat, who as if receive the food by eating it. It is, in a way, 
as if the ghosts were eating. Any of the people eat. And then he is 
again spoken to, after they stand up outside. And a warrior speaks, 
telling his valorous deeds, of the people he has slain, and he tells how 
he got the best of them. 
After telling how he got the best of them, he then says, ‘That is 
the one who shall take care of him on the way; this one shall have 
him do errands; and he shall take care of the food for him which he 
takes along.” ? That is what warriors say. 
2 Free translation. 
