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the person obtained. And you can go and kill game easily. You 
may become a leader in anything. If there is a war, you may become 
aleader. And you will always bring your men back safe and sound. 
They will not be killed by the enemy. You will surely be blessed 
by the manitou if you take an interest in fasting and are not afraid 
of doing so. After you have fasted long enough if you desire any- 
thing you will obtain it. So fasting is the right thing to do. And if 
you do this, you must get up early, before our grandfather, the Sun, 
rises. If anything happens to the people where you are after a few 
years, nothing will happen to you; you will not be destroyed. This 
is the only way you can live again. All the people will be benefited 
by you. This is the best life there is.” And this is why children are 
taught to fast. 
For additional data on fasting among the Fox Indians to obtain 
blessings see Mary Alicia Owen, Folk-lore of the Musquakie Indians, 
page 67; W. Jones, Fox Texts, passim; Michelson, Bulletin 72, B. A. E., 
passim, and thisvolume, passim. For data on the Sauk or Fox see the 
letter of Cutting Marsh (1834) in Wisconsin Hist. Collections, xv, page 
129; Isaac Galland, Indian Tribes of the West, in Annals of Iowa, 
1869, page 355. For the general subject see the articles Fasting and 
Religion, in the Handbook of American Indians (Bulletin 30, B. A. E.). 
For comparative purposes the following additional references are 
given (which references are not intended to be exhaustive) : 
For the Sauk: 
Harrineton, M. R. Sacred bundles of the Sac and Fox Indians. Univ. Pa., 
Anthrop. Publ. Univ. Mus., vol. rv, no. 2, 1914. 
Parrerson, J. B. Autobiography of Black Hawk. Oquawka, IIl., 1882. 
SKINNER, ALANSON. Observations on the ethnology of the Sauk Indians. Bull. 
Pub. Mus. Milwaukee, vol. 5, no. 1, 1923. pp. 32, 33. 
For the Menomini: 
Skinner, A. Social life and ceremonial bundles of the Menomini. Anthrop. 
Papers Amer. Mus. Nat. Hist., vol. xm, 1915. pp. 42 et seq., 96 et seq. 
Material culture of the Menomini. Mus. Amer. Ind., Indian Notes 
and Monographs, 1921. pp. 53, 54. 
For the Iowa: 
Skinner, A. Societies of the Iowa. Anthrop. Papers Amer. Mus. Nat. Hist., 
vol. x1, 1916. p. 739. 
For the Kansas: 
Skinner, A. Kansa organizations. Ibid. p. 769. 
For the Omaha: 2 
Dorsey, J. O. Omaha sociology. Third Ann. Rept. Bur. Ethn., 1884. p. 266. 
Frercuer, Auice C., and La Fuescue, Francis. The Omaha Tribe. Twenty- 
seventh Ann. Rept. Bur. Amer. Ethn., 1911. pp. 128 et seq. 
For the Osage: 
Fuercuer, Avice C., and La Fiescus, Francis. Ibid., p. 132. 
1 Michelson, How Meskwaki children should be brought up. Jn American Indian Life, ed. Dr. E.C. 
Parsons, p. 82. 
