MICHELSON. ] ORIGIN OF THE WHITE BUFFALO DANCE, 63 
And then finally the boy’s white buffalo no longer concealed itself. 
Then (the boy) was made to live from spot to spot away from the 
others. Then it is said he (the buffalo) would repeatedly come right 
where he (the boy) lived to give him instructions in the manner they 
(the people) should do in the future. 
And then it is said one time they were sought and made war on by 
the Sioux. The Sioux were in large number. And then it is said the 
young man narrated: ‘‘ Well, now at last our enemy are starting here 
on a warpath against us. So do your best to guard (against them),”’ 
he told them. ‘They have already started on the way here, and they 
will surely get here. But perhaps they will not succeed in killing us; 
but perhaps you will kill them. This direction is whence they will 
attack us. So you ought to watch that way all the time, so they will 
not surprise us. Even if you moved away, they would surely come 
to us where we were. Anyway, that is what would happen to us. 
And besides they would kill us if we did that, namely, flee. Now you 
must only think of killmg them. My thought will be with yours to 
kill them. I myself can not engage in the battle against them. 
That is all I say to you,” he told them. 
To be sure they were attacked from the direction they were told; 
surely they slaughtered a great number, but many were saved. 
And then it is said the young man (said): ‘‘This is what you ought to 
do if you think, ‘I shall lall them all.’ I am going to kill them all 
myself,’ he said to them. As he attacked them he became a white 
buffalo. Although, it is said, the Sioux were shooting lively, in spite 
of it they were attacked. He killed all of those Sioux. He came 
walking back smiling unconcernedly. ‘‘That was what you should 
have contrived to do, if you had attacked them in the first place,” 
he said to them. 
And then, it is said, one morning it was a very fine day, not even a 
single cloud was hanging in the sky. ‘‘ Well, let us visit the trader,”’ 
he said. ‘‘One from as many dwellings as we have shall go, but we 
must put on our fine clothes. This kind of a firmament is what the 
trader likes. He is not a human being, he is a manitou. This is the 
way we should have been doing had I not been thought a liar. For 
no reason I am thought perhaps to be a liar,” he said to the people. 
Then they swam scrupulously when washing themselves. After 
bathing they started, going to that place. All of them were each 
given a very large kettle filled’ with something, such as tools, knives. 
They were told: ‘‘ You must love these things I give you, and I have 
given you equally alike. I give no one more. I give you equally 
alike,’ they were told. ‘‘ And, furthermore, in four days let every old 
