Answer:
Step-by-step explanation:
1) By circling the wagon Trains at night holding Treated Feathers to remind the Natives that perhaps they should not think of the homes they left behind, but rather hope that what they were heading towards would be better. The feathers had the added property that they were treated by the Medicine Man.
2) The older wise women sang songs that resembled hymns to encourage those on the trail that the One above them would be watch over them.