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The order of doings in Council is:—

Opening and fire-lighting

Roll Call

Reading and accepting tally of last Council

Reports of Scouts (things observed or done)

Left‑over business

New business

Honours

Honourable mention

(For the good of the Tribe) Complaints and suggestions.

(Here business ends and entertainment begins.)

Challenges

Games, contests, etc.

Close by singing Omaha Prayer (Tale 108)

TALE 105

The Sandpainting of the Fire

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When I was staying among the Navaho Indians, I met John Wetherall, the trader. He had spent half his life among them, and knew more of their ways than any other white man that I met. He told me that part of the education of Navaho priest was knowing the fifty sandpaintings of his tribe. A sandpainting is a design made on the ground or floor with dry sands of different colours — black, white, gray, yellow, red, etc. It looks like a rug or a blanket on the ground, and is made up of many curious marks which stand for some man, place, thing, or idea. Thus, the first sandpainting is a map of the world as the Navaho knew it, with rivers and hills that are important in their history. These sandpaintings cannot be moved; a careless touch spoils them, and a gust of wind can wipe them out. They ..text pokračuje