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the other Tndians, derived their status from the customary visions 
gained during prolonged fasts and ratified, perhaps, by some public 
ceremony. The dead with their ornaments were buried in shallow 
holes amid rocks and boulders, sometimes so carelessly that the bodies 
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A Kootenay chief. (Photo hi/ James Teit.) 
were exposed to the air. In the firm conviction that the dead would 
one day return to life at lake Pend-d’Oreille, all the Kootenay bands 
assembled at that lake in certain winters to hold a religious festival; 
and every night on their outward and homeward marches the Indians 
