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no knowledge whatever of any special Feast of Propitiation, or Cementation. -- Hence it is clear that the ceremonies must have been confounded at a very remote date; and equally so, that ages must have since elapsed; -- the observance of the forms in question not being accompanied with the slightest idea of their import.

    A more modern method of performing the New Green Corn Feast, by the different towns, preserves the original features more distinctly, and proceeds as follows:
         The Ti, nu, li, no, he, ski,--the Seven Counsellors selected by the A, tsi,nu, sti, on his returning from the National Council, with his report, and the permission,as before described, immediately made the following preliminary arrangements:
    They appointed the time, and by their messenger, notified the people of the town. They directed Seven men to hunt during six days previous to the feast, while they, together with the town priest, -- his right hand man,- and seven women, selected, one from each clan, devoted themselves to fasting at the Town Council House. On the morning of the seventh Day the Hunters returned, bringing to the priest the end of the tongue for sacrifice, -- the meat of the buck, & all the skins;  -- and