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They walked interlinear: or danced in a polka like step arm in arm their bow & arrows in one hand & in the other they carried rattles, which kept time to a perpetual chaunt which they sang - Dancing thro' the teepees they were told underlined_not_ to go to the Governor's Camp, when they immediately turned round & went there they erasures/overwriting: result which? was desired by the commissioners who wished to see them. A heavy shower did not seem to disconcert them in the least. The Dacotah religion is Pantheistic, They imbue every object with a spiritual existence or mysterious power. - They pray to every object in nature which they wish to appease or supplicate, if asked what they pray chiefly too, they say to underline_stones_, for there are more of them than almost any other object they know