MICHELSON. ] ORIGIN OF THE WHITE BUFFALO DANCE, 58 
Then that boy, it is said, went there just when his friend became 
unconscious. She was just barely breathing. And they, whose 
daughter she was, had already wept. Then the boy barely dipped 
the medicine into some water. After dipping it in, then he dipped 
a feather in it. Then he pushed the feather into her mouth. He 
pushed the whole length of it in. After pulling it out, then she 
breathed regularly. Then he made her drink a little of it. Soon her 
eyes turned to their natural shape. Soon in the evening she came to 
her consciousness. ‘She will immediately be well,” the boy said. 
He gladdened them whose daughter she was. “ You give her this 
to drink constantly. Only four days shall you give her (this) to 
drink. But give her only a little at a time, don’t give her much. 
She will be cured, is what I say to you,” the boy said. 
From that time on, it is said, they recognized that he was always 
talking with that white buffalo. Those who continued to see him 
always saw him very close by. He was suspected in some way. 
Now the parents of the girl cooked a meal for the boy. ‘‘ We have 
some meat here for you to eat,” they told him. ‘Not at all; I would 
prefer turkey,” they were told. 
And then, it is said, the man again went out hunting for turkey. 
He killed many turkeys. Then they cooked a meal for him. 
Then it is said that boy gave aspeech. ‘ Now, I shall eat with my 
friend, the white buffalo, who blessed me. It is he with whom I shall 
eat,” he said in his speech. ‘‘ My friends shall eat with me,” he said. 
Then boys were being called to come; and he ordered his own father 
to call them to come. But it is said he did not say to his father 
“Bat.’’ He merely kept sitting there. 
After they had eaten the boy gave another speech: ‘Now, my 
friends, our friend here has cooked this feast for me. Because I have 
blessed her is the reason why she has cooked for me. To be sure, she 
has pleased the manitou who thinks of me, the Buffalo chief,” he 
said to them. “So that is why this food will have a good effect on us, 
because we are feasting personally with the manitou who thinks of me. 
Moreover, this is the way he has been gladdened by one who cooked 
for me, namely, by feeding the one he thinks most of. For he thinks 
a great deal of those turkeys. Verily how shall he not be made 
mindful by the one who cooked for me? He will be made mindful and 
he will be made to realize thereby. Moreover, we shall make the 
manitou feel the same way.” “ Verily now we must go to our respec- 
tive homes, you who are men folks,” the boys said to each other. 
Then they went to their homes. 
The father was very proud of his son. When they went home he 
went along with his son. And then, “ Father,’ he was told, “make 
me a bow, and make a very fancy bow for me to have,”’ he said to his 
