The use of cedar smoke, prayers to the four directions, and a traditional prayer in Northern Cheyenne at the end of the Mass are all signs of the blending of Catholic and Northern Cheyenne beliefs. Youth from Lame Deer play tag outside St. Labre Catholic Church in Ashland during a wake for a relative. Crucifixes dangling from their necks, they climbed the church until scolded by an elder. The Rev. Dan Crosby, who has been a priest on the Northern Cheyenne for 14 years, leaves Agnes Limpy at her home after Mass in Busby. The Southern Baptist Church in Birney is run by Wilmont and his wife, Cindy.
Children play in the ashes that kept the peyote ceremony going just hours before.
The ashes from the fire are arranged into a gradual half moon through the night, representing the nine moons during which a woman carries a child. At the end of the evening a woman brings in the water of life.