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such families as could not attend the great nations feast, and knew how to proceed kept this feast in their own families. The master of the family obtaining a buckskin dressed white, and spread it before the fire, killed fowls, or other animals to obtain as much meat as the family would consume at one meal, and took some of the blood and drew a streak of fresh blood on the buck skin from the nose to the tail. All the family then repaired to a river, or creek, and plunged entirely seven time, and then returning to the house put on a change of clean dry clothes, and devoted the day to entire abstinence At night, the meat being cooked, and the mush of the newly pounded fine meal made, all the family partook together. Now if the family could not eat all the meat provided to be eaten with that unclear kind of bread, they could give it to any creature, or burn it, but none of it must by any means see the next morning. Females in their separations, and men defiled by the dead, or otherwise, might partake of the above feast, by having portions of the meat and bread sent them, though they could not mingle with the assembly Thomas Nu tsa wi Soon after the above feast, the seven prime counsellors appointed a nightly religious dance, when they gave orders for making new fire on the seventh night from that time, and dispatched their messengers to give notice accordingly. On the evening of the sixth day all assembled at the council house, where many spent the night in a religious dance. Early in the morning the seven whose business it was to make new fire commenced their operations. One was officially the fire maker, and