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belief of their supernatural mission? & at the proper age are installed as " great-medicine" men. To such an extent is their belief in this mystery carried that are cannot doubt their sincerity as I have heard a father performing these incantations & singing over his sick child. This institution is said to be of comparatively late origin, having been instituted about fifty years ago by the "Shawnee Prophet".