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be employed to form the assembly, and that too on which you hve, 

 and these customarily shall be placed together. So now customarily 

 when they shall have assembled themselves, the first thing shall be 

 the Greatly Prized Ceremony, it will be called Ganonhwaiwih; 

 so then the place where lies what supports you, the fires of the several 

 firesides (ohwachiras), shall become important places, and then one 

 will customarily set his or her hands to the fire; and the fire which 

 has become ashes one will customarily take up and stir. So then cus- 

 tomarily one will speak and say, '1 ana thankful that I am alive in 

 health. Now, the time has come in which the ceremony Ganon- 

 hwaiwih is marked. So then now do thou, De'hae°'hiyawa"kho"" 

 who livest in the sky, do thou continue to listen. Now, I thank 

 thee that it still has been possible for me again to see the place where 

 thou hast set the ceremony.' Then at that time one will lament, one 

 will sing, and then one will begin to dip up the ashes with a paddle, 

 and then one will tip it and the ashes will fall, and then one's voice 

 will habitually accompany that action, and all will rejoice; so then, 

 when all those who are alive on the earth will have performed the 

 entire ceremony, then at that time the minds wUl just unite into a 

 unity; and then at this place, when that will become the principal 

 thing, you will then use as a means that which will be called Trussed 

 Things (the white dogs). So then I, personally, will continue to 

 greatly prize that ceremony; and customarily all the peoples of the 

 earth, being of my father's clansmen,*' will satisfy (answer) my word; 

 so then the dog whose body is purely white will customarily be 

 the principal thing; there shall be no black spot on it; with that 

 they shall habitually again dress my person; that shall symbolize 

 habitually the form and kind of my raiment. So then customarily 

 it shall be by established rule that shall come the appointment of 

 him who will cast its body on the fire, and in the next place the 

 native tobacco. So then, when he will direct his words toward that, 

 then he will say, 'This day is present; do thou who abidest in 

 the sky, thence continue to listen; now thou dost see clearly how 

 many persons there are who have come to stand at the place where 

 thy father's clansmen have kindled a fire to thee. Now, more- 

 over, do thou continue to listen thence; now they who are alive upon 

 the earth will speak. And they will speak with one voice unani- 

 mously; and they have formed their Word of that thing which thou 

 dost highly prize, the Trussed Thing (white dog);''" all peoples on the 

 earth have satisfied (answered) thy word. Now, therefore, thither 

 goes the thing thou dost highly prize, the thing which thou didst 

 intend that they who are alive upon the earth shall continue to ob- 

 sei-vc; now all the manifold orders of those who are alive with one 

 voice unanimously have performed their duty to thee; now they 



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