MICHELSON. ] ORIGIN QF THE WHITE BUFFALO DANCE, 75 
And they started out. When they likewise came there he sat 
down. The one by whom he had been blessed related: ‘‘ Now, I have 
blessed this our grandehild. This was why I blessed him, because 
he made himself so hungry that he stumbled around from hunger, 
that was why I blessed him. The one who is in the East has spoken 
to him also. And the one who is in the South has also spoken to 
him. And then I brought him here,’’ he said. “He will also make 
his words reach here when he worships, that was why I brought him 
in here,” he said to him. “O yes,” the other answered. ‘‘ Now, my 
grandchild come and sit down,” he said to him, “‘in front of me,’’ he 
said. “TI will give you instructions,” he was told. He was stroked 
once on the head. After he had been stroked on the head again, 
“Now, my grandchild, bear in mind well what I am to say to you. 
Although whatever I say to you is second-handed, do not think, 
‘that is just what I was told yonder.’ Lo! Iam another being and 
this is the first time I ever saw you. Now, my grandchild, when 
your grandfather here first blessed you, he probably instructed you 
about life, so that you might reach the end of your life as long as it 
has been set; so you would not be lying around in a pile (i. e., dead) 
before that time; surely the length of your life is how long you shall 
live. That very likely was what he promised you who first blessed 
you. Now I also think of you as he thought of you. Precisely so 
do I think of you. And this too! Probably he told you, ‘lead a 
quiet life.’ I think of you the same way. And then in regard to 
religion. ‘Worship quietly. If you worship quietly, then what- 
soever you pray for will be so,’ I suppose he said to you. I 
think of you the same way. When you worship, fill up a drum. 
That is what we will hear. You will call it a ‘kettle.’ In as many 
ways as they (to whose dwellings) you have come and entered 
have instructed you, in so many I think of you. None of them 
think of you in an evil way; they think of you in a good way; that 
you would have a good life, thus did they instruct you. Probably 
you will listen very carefully to them. ‘You are to listen very care- 
fully to me,’ they probably told you. I shall do just the same as 
they told you. This which I say to you is what I shall do. Nota 
word of mine will in any way be useless.* We shall tell the truth in 
every way we have spoken to you. For all of us are called manitous. 
Why then should we lie? We shall not fail to be known if we lie 
to you in any way. The one who watches us will know about us,” 
he was told. ‘‘But my grandchild if we are this many, our sayings 
will not be true. So you must go to see the one who lives in the 
North,” he said. ‘‘That is all I can speak to you,” he said. 
8 Literally ‘‘will not fall any indefinite spot.’’ 
