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give satisfaction to your (the people's) minds, and also all the various 

 orders of those to whom he has appointed overseeing duties, and he 

 also will be among them when he will give thanks repeatedly. Now, 

 again, another thing; the Ceremony of Chanting (Andonwa') will 

 start. This ceremony rests entirel.y with each of you individuallj-, 

 if you will desire that he should perform this ceremony he will tell of 

 the extent of his handiwork, and he will thank it repeatedly, and he 

 will also continue to thank him repeatedly. Now, again, another 

 thing; when the Ceremony of the Great Betting will start you must 

 employ therein what is of your utmost toil, whatever thing of what 

 you are in the habit of using, you will spare that, and with that they 

 will lay wagers one against another; that will be the principal thing, 

 and that, then, will keep up the strength of the noise when the cere- 

 mony will be in progress, when my father's clansmen who are alive 

 upon the earth will be amusing my mind. So then all that I have 

 ordained shall be the means of doing, and then they shall be greatly 

 prized matters. So then this shall come to pass when customarily 

 they will assemble; the first is, that you severally greet one another 

 repeatedly; and the next, the earth here present, also all things that 

 are growing, also the animals, also the several springs of water, all 

 these you shall continue to thank, and the present day, and also the 

 present night, also the diurnal Orb of Light (the Sun), also the noc- 

 turnal Orb of Light (the Moon), also the Thunderers, all these beings 

 customarily you shall continue to thank repeatedly; then at that 

 time you shall thank me repeatedly. So now another thing; now 

 there where the several ohwachira (families) are, where the several 

 bark shelters are, and where they have severally Idndled fires, that 

 will be that she, the most ancient one, shall be in the habit of doing 

 so in the ohwachira (family), and that she will have the duty to per- 

 form, that she will continue to give thanks repeatedly, as often as 

 she shall again see the new dawn of daylight, the new day; she shall 

 say customarily, 'We greet one another repeatedly, that again we 

 see that a new day has come upon us. Now, then, we will unite our 

 minds to give thanks repeatedly.' Now she shall say, 'We thank 

 thee, our Mother, the Earth, repeatedly. We also thank repeatedly 

 all that grows upon which we live. We also thank repeatedly you, 

 these animals whom one who has formed our bodies has left you and 

 us in one place. Now you, the diurnal Orb of Light (the Sun), our 

 Elder Brother, we thank repeatedly. Now thou, this nocturnal Orb 

 of Light (the Moon), our Grandmother, we thank thee repeatedly. 

 Now you, our Grandsires, you Thunderers, who are in the habit of 

 coming from the west, now then we, our whole ohwachira (uterine 

 family), with one voice thank thee repeatedly that still our number 

 is full and that we are living in peace and health, and that again we 

 see the new day here present. Now, then, to thee, who hast made 



