Every one having finished eating, the kettle in which the food was cooked is smoked with cedar leaves or grass.

Before the cooking is commenced, all the fire within the wigwam is put out, and a fresh one made from flint and steel.

In the celebration of the Sacred Feast, the fire and cooking utensils are kept and consecrated exclusively to that purpose.

After the feast is over, all the bones are carefully collected and thrown into the water, in order that no dog may get them, nor a woman trample on them.
The Sioux worship the sun.

The _sun dance_ is performed by young warriors who dance, at intervals of five minutes, for several days.