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i's flag is on the right. The flag is taken down at sun set and that is an index that the dance is done for that day. The "Ki Ki na nad i shi. mo id i wad" "Dancing each one individually" is as the name implies an individual dance.

  The features of the dance are a song and dance for each of the chief participants in it a song is sung for the "Chief Speaker."  where it is incumbent upon him to arise and dance  the dance is a peculiar affair. the motions in its more staid and dignified form consists in raising one foot. then the other in a kind of rythm. [sic] keeping time with the drum beats. that is the form practiced by the old never the young men. in addition their ladies into all sorts of [?]/  When the dance is general all must dance especially is that true when the "head dancer" holds up the Manito cane. but when it is an individual dance only the special individual dance..This is a dance ending for each individual of the officers and as it is sung and he dances it:  He must make a present of some kind. to some one. some article or other is taken from his person and presented to some one else.   There are a number of dances that they dance only on occasion. as The Dance for the Dead Drummer. Some minutes before the dance at Lac de Flambeau. "Ba shi li ashi" "Wild Cat" a drummer had died. and at one point in the dance. All the drummers home and visiting gathered in a circle and had a feast with the dead drummer. they said they had brought him back to earth to eat with them.  and when ever a feast is held a dish is provided and food placed in it for the departed spirit. to eat.
  The "Old Brave" dance. in this the old men get up one after the other and tell their experiences in [?] life exploits and brave deeds.   This is most likely the relic of Old time war dance when the brave worked himself up into a frenzie of enthusiasms and [?] and as they expressed it "struck the rear part."  In these days it has however sadly degenerated.   In this dance. once more the bravest of them all as  it seemed.  after dancing related that "he had once found a dead man and he put him on his shoulders and carried him."  It s pewter that in olden times that would rest how long or very brave exploit. but it is now.
 The Dinner Dance. When a man wishes to divorce his wife he comes into the floor. and