MICHELSON. ] ORIGIN OF THE WHITE BUFFALO DANCE. CA 
They started out, going North. When they arrived there they 
started to walk in. A man was sitting there all the time. Then his 
grandfather spoke. ‘‘Now, I have blessed this our grandchild. 
This is why I blessed him, because he made himself so hungry that he 
was stumbling around from hunger, that was the reason I soon 
blessed him. He has been spoken to by the one who sits in the East. 
Then when we came out from there he was spoken to by the one who 
sits in the South. And then also he has been spoken to by the one 
who sits in the West. Then verily I brought him here to you.” 
“O, yes. Well, Pll try. Now, my grandchild, come here and sit 
down in front of me,’”’ he was told. Then he was stroked on the head. 
After he had been thus treated, ‘Now, my grandchild, you know 
what all you have been told before, what he said to you, who first 
spoke to you. They would not ever say to you, ‘I think of you in 
the wickedest way.’ Now this was the reason, by going around hungry 
you have made your body wretched. Sol also think that you will 
reach your span of life. You are to do exactly as the people who are 
to live on. You also will live on the same way, if you think strongly 
of whatever this one may say to you. Because there is some reason 
for your being taken around. What we thought of you is no small 
thing. Itis a big thing which we think of you. And besides we are 
no small manitous, as many of us as you have visited in turn. The 
leading and the great manitou has personally hired us. We have 
already been instructed the way each one of us must bless you. So I 
bless you the same way as he blessed you who first spoke to you. 
As much as he said to you, the same way I also think of you. And 
what as many of them whom you have visited on the way said to you, 
I bless you the same way. And now I shall speak to you myself. 
When you are worshipping us, you must not only be sitting there 
solemnly. You must sing. We shall be able to hear you from where 
you will sing. You know the number of times you have gone to and 
entered (dwellings) ; in your speech you must refer to them in order. 
Always when you go in, you must name these our wickiups in a circle. 
And when you are singing, you are not to be singing sportively; you 
must be same as wailing. You will be wailing over the town, your 
town. All your fellow people are they over whom you will be wailing 
there. You must not be wailing over yourselves alone. You will 
be instructed in the songs. And the songs are all ours. 
“To be sure this first one who spoke to you and blessed you has 
pleased me. That is all I am able to speak to you myself. I can not 
bless you any other way. My (blessing) will be also in regard to life. 
But if we are this many, what we say will not be true. So, he who is 
above, is the last one to speak to you as he is seated there. After he 
speaks to you then we shall all tell the truth. Then you must do this 
way, as many things as I have told you; and now you may go and 
take our grandchild there,” he said. 
