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skies green, you have lost sight of it. You may please merely walk 
away. You will only bless your relatives (whom you have left) 
behind with life,” is what they say to them. ‘And this. They will 
wear blankets.’’ That is what the one who speaks to the dead says. 
(The speeches) are very nearly the same (when one dies). They 
speak only a little differently, that is what they do. And this food, 
they say, is as if for this Aiyapa‘ti‘* to eat. He is the main one to 
eat it, and he will be the main one to be happy over the food, and 
he will be the main one to be happy over the tobacco. He is the 
first one to take the first puff of smoke. That is as much as they 
say to him when an adoption-feast is held. That is what these 
people say. And if no one were adopted (the dead) could go nowhere, 
they say. And if one is not attended to (with an adoption-feast) in 
four years, he would be ruined in between here (and the place where 
he died). He would not be able to depart. Soon he would turn 
into an owl. The owl would hoot near the wickiup. It is the ghost 
for whom an adoption-feast had never been held. That is what 
these Indians say. They employ (the adoption-feast) very much. 
They shall keep on doing this as long as there shall be mortals. 
That is what the Indians say. That is as much of this story as I 
am going to tell. The Indians know it in all sorts of ways. Perhaps 
it might not be true. Surely, my friend, Wapinenu's™*’, my friend, 
Ki'cko™", we shall have a fine time at the powwow. 
