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and give him money,” I was told. Then I was told that by the medicine man. There are many different kinds of [Drums] over there at Mille Lacs. But he said that was a Sioux Drum. That’s what they told me. Well, then I explained to them how it was to look and again how we would put those songs on the [Drum]. Well I gave them certain things they would carry with [them] to this day. Right there, I got goose bumps on myself when you guys started that Drum you carry and I was just overwhelmed with happiness that there was going to be Drum over there. It couldn’t be made up. You guys had to bring it [into being]. The ones who carried it did things that way, as they were reseated. They will never be removed from there again. They will never be removed as they have now started to carry that [Drum].

[50] It’s that way today, that’s why there are such good feelings over there now. That’s why it is known that we’ve made our acquaintances at the Drum and that we have made a new start over there and I’ve been teaching about those songs. And there is a certain greeting song there, a greeting song for when they first come into being and they meet one another for the first time. That old man taught me that. A lot of the time I can’t remember it. Later on I’ll remember it. I can remember it again, that’s that greeting song as it’s called. But I can’t remember it right now. It’s there. I have it there. We were just told about it. I can’t know of it myself. But for the first time over there, when the Drum was first [used] over there, we started it anew.

[51] Then at this time, those elders saw the four bald eagles circling there where we had placed them, where we placed the Drum members all here on the Drum. Then and there they saw those four bald eagles circling there at White Earth Lake as it’s called. That’s where we had Drum Ceremony the first time when I was helping them. I seated the first Drum chief although they certainly did things in seating the others. After I seated him, then they seated all of them as we gave the teachings to them. Then while I was teaching them, they seated those [who] would become Drum members at this time. Right there those four encircled the [Drum], those bald eagles. And these Indians who were over there were blessed. Then all at one time they started their departure in the far reaches of the winds over there; they went in the directions of the four winds and did so for this reason. And over there toward the east, the head Spirit is over there, that’s one. These bald eagles, they are like those thunderbirds over there, the big birds. They went around telling the news; [this] is where the Drum was. That’s why they started their departure, telling the Spirits over there, just like messengers they spread the news there that they had seen the Drum struck for the first time; and as these things happened over there I was so overwhelmed with happiness that we had started that Drum, that I was helping when we started that Drum over there. Today I have the highest regard for my helping those boys over there so that they could start that Drum at this time before we finished with him, before they finished with that Drum.

[52] And something happened with me. It happened to me with those things. There was a certain house there. Right there I dreamed about that Drum sitting over there as they were lowered into position, right over there. I didn’t intentionally dream about the Drum that way, [it happened] so that I would help them, that’s why I dreamed about it like that. This is how I saw it in my mind. Today again when we seated that veteran there at the Drum, we seated him that way today. “Were you there when we seated him?” “Yes.” “The veteran?” And I dreamed about that young man too. I dreamt about that Drum with him coming to help out. And I was thought of in that. He was to be considered by the Spirit who wanted him to represent him, so I saw that in my dream that he would come to be a good carrier. This is what I told that young man. And he was also over there during the war. And I told him things, “That belt