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3'\vo hij>h deities received recognition, a sky-god and a sun-god, 
but the Tahltan paid little regal’d to either beyond occasionally 
burning a little food to the sun-god. Parents prayed to the day- 
dawn for the welfare of their children, and postulated the existence 
of a supernatui'al game-mother who controlled the supply of birds 
and animals. The guardian spirits that boys obtained in their 
dreams were nearly all animals. So also were most of the familiars 
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A Tahltan sweat-house. (Vhoio hy James Tcit.) 
of the medicine-men, which were usually gained through dreams in 
like manner, following instruction at times from older medicine-men. 
For the Tahltan, like other Indians, saw supernatural forces at work 
in everything around them, but gave most heed to those that most 
affected their food supply. 
Game is still abundant in the basin of the Stikine river, and by 
trapping the fur-bearing animals in winter, fishing, freighting, and 
serving sportsmen as guides in summer, the Tahltan can live quite 
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