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had been dead or beaten in the game, all these things would have been 
lifeless. 
When they arrived at Ushtupeddi there was great rejoicing among the 
long-lost tribe over their restoration. Oankoitupeh was then surely known 
as the son of the Red Cloud, and he was held in great honor. Every tribe 
was restored to its old original place, and every village to its own place on 
the face of the earth, and there was no confusion. Every valley received 
back its own proper inhabitants, as was ordained at the first by Ko’-do- 
yam-peh (the World-Maker), who was also called Woan’-no-mih. 
Oankoitupeh now assembled all the people together in a great convo- 
cation, and pointed out to them Piuchunnuh and Kiunaddissi as examples 
for their perpetual imitation or avoidance. He related to them the sad his- 
tory of both these two men’s tribes, and showed them how disobedience to 
the commands of Woannomih had brought ruin and death upon them. He 
rehearsed to them their history in the dreary ice-land, and pointed out the 
beautiful contrasts of their own land, to which they were now happily 
restored. He adjured them’to remember the precepts of the religion which 
they were now to receive from Woannomih through the lips of these two 
old chiefs and himself. Let them never return to the brutish worship of 
their ancestors, who prayed to the rocks, the rivers, and the hills; but let 
them rather pray to Woannomih. He told them never to forget or neglect 
the assembly-hall, the house of religion and of the sacred song and dance ; 
they should never suffer any village to be without one while the world 
endures. If they continued faithful in the worship of Woannomih, and at 
any time their oak trees did not yield acorns, or their rivers did not afford 
them salmon, and their prophets prayed to him, they should receive abun- 
dance. : . 
He said it would be allowed to them to have their pleasures as before; 
to have all kinds of songs and dances—dances of war and of friendship, 
scalp dances aitd acorn dances; to indulge in foot races and in trials of 
skill with the bow and arrow and the sling, and all kinds of plays with the 
ball and racket, with gambling and betting, ete. But in betting they must 
het only such articles as were counted property, and must never more wager 
inen and women, as their foolish ancestors did, thereby losing their tribe. 
