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Let your prayer to the Sun be:--
_Wakan Ate; on-si-md-da ohee-nee_."[AF]
And remember the _Taku Wakan_[73]
all-pervading in earth and in ether--
Invisible ever to man,
but He dwells in the midst of all matter;
Yea, he dwells in the heart of the stone--
in the hard granite heart of the boulder;
Ye shall call him forever _Tunkan_--
grandfather of all the Dakotas.
Ye are men that I choose for my own;
ye shall be as a strong band of brothers,
Now I give you the magical bone
and the magical pouch of the spirits,[AG]
And these are the laws ye shall heed:
Ye shall honor the pouch and the giver.
Ye shall walk as twin-brothers; in need,
one shall forfeit his life for another.
Listen not to the voice of the crow.[AH]
Hold as sacred the wife of a brother.
Strike, and fear not the shaft of the foe,
for the soul of the brave is immortal.
Slay the warrior in battle,
but spare the innocent babe and the mother.
Remember a promise,--beware,--
let the word of a warrior be sacred
When a stranger arrives at the _tee_--
be he friend of the band or a foeman,
Give him food; let your bounty be free;
lay a robe for the guest by the lodge-fire;
Let him go to his kindred in peace,
if the peace-pipe he smoke in the _teepee_;
And so shall your children increase,
and your lodges shall laugh with abundance.
And long shall ye live in the land,
and the spirits of earth and the waters
Shall come to your aid, at command,
with the power of invisible magic.
And at last, when you journey afar--
o'er the shining "_Wanagee Ta-chan-ku_,"[68]
You shall walk as a red, shining star[8]
in the land of perpetual summer."

[AF] "Sacred Spirit! Father! have pity on me always."

[AG] Riggs' Takoo Wakan, p. 90.

[AH] Slander.

All the night in the _teepee_ they sang,
and they danced to the mighty _Unktehee_,
While the loud-braying _Chan-che-ga_ rang
and the shrill-piping flute and the rattle,
Till _Anpetuwee_ [70] rose in the east--
from the couch of the blushing _Han-nan-na_,
And thus at the dance and the feast
sang the sons of _Unktehee_ in chorus:

"Wa-du-ta o-hna mi-ka-ge!
Wa-du-ta o-hna mi-ka-ge!
Mini-yata ite wakande maku,
Ate wakan--Tunkansidan.

Tunkansidan pejihuta wakan
Mi