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and eagle-eyed Dakotas, where they are ‘“ drinking delight of battle” with 
their peers, or running in the noble frenzy of the chase; but a soft and a 
forgetting land, a sweet, oblivious sleep, awaking only to feast and then to 
sleep again. 
As for the bad Indians, they will be obliged to content themselves 
with a palingenesis in the bodies of grizzly bears, cougars, snakes, ete. 
Among other noted ceremonials the Kato Pomo observe an autumnal 
acorn dance in which the performers wear the mantles and head-dresses of 
eagles’ or buzzards’ tail-feathers customary in this region, and which appears 
to be much like the thanksgiving dance of the Humboldt Bay Indians, being 
accompanied, like that, by the oration of plenty. It is not strictly an anni- 
versary dance, but rather a “movable festival” in the Indian fasti dies, cele- 
brated when the crop of acorns has proven generous, but otherwise omitted. 
Besides the Kato Pomo, there are many other little bands in divers 
valleys, of whom the most important are here mentioned. In Potter Valley, 
taken as a whole, are the Bal-l6 Kai Pé-mo (Oat Valley People); in Sher- 
wood Valley, the Ku-lé Kai Pé-mo (hula is the name of a kind of fruit, 
like little pumpkins, growing on water, as the Indians describe it); in Red- 
wood Cation, the Da-pi-shil Pé-mo (dapishail means “high sun”; that is, 
a cold place, because of the depth of the canon); at Calpello, the Choam 
Cha-di-la Pé-mo (Pitch Pine People); at Ukiah City, the Yo-kai’-a Pé-mo 
(Lower Valley People); in Coyote Valley, the Shé-do Kai Pé-mo; on 
the coast, and along Usal Creek, the Yu-sil Pé-mo or Kam/-a-lel Pé-mo 
(Ocean People); at Little Lake, the Mi-toam’ Kai Pé-mo (Wooded Valley 
People); on the Rio Grande, or Big River, the Bul’-dam Pé-mo. At Clear 
Lake, about Lakeport, is a branch of this family called the Eastern People 
(I do not know the Indian word). The Ku-lé Kai Pé-mo are also called 
by the Kato tribe, Shi-bal’-ni Pé-mo (Neighbor People). 
