MICHELSON. ] ORIGIN OF THE WHITE BUFFALO DANCE. 81 
It is just as if it were lonely all the time, that is how I am, my grand- 
child, my son,” he was told. ‘‘Any man or woman, a man who 
knows nothing of the nature of a woman, he is the one I shall think of. 
And a woman who knows nothing of the nature of a man, she isthe 
one I shall think of. Truly the person does not have to fast. If any 
one does so, in that way he (or she) will have along life. That is one 
thing I let you know. And then also the one who believes the gens 
festival to be true, one who listens to it carefully, one who never talks 
foolishly against it, that is another thing. 
“Tt is true that I have instructed my fellow manitous how they 
shall bless you, because I haye set your lives entirely too short, but 
that is how they will get smoke. LEyen myself, I have not even 
saved one pipe full of tobacco for myself. I have placed it all for 
you who are called mortals. That is why I set it with you, so that 
later on if they want to smoke, after they have truly blessed you, 
then you are to begin to let them smoke—and not without reason. 
And also they will not steal it from you. There is something which 
will happen to any who steals it from you. Even if I should steal it 
from you there would be something that would happen to me. This 
also I promise you. So you must remember very firmly the way 
this your grandfather has blessed you, the one who first blessed you. 
Whatever those who have spoken to you say to you, do that. They 
will tell the truth, no one thinks of you as being in a distant lonely 
spot. They think of you only the way it is good. If they thought 
of you in a wicked way, probably you would not have been brought 
here, that is what would have happened to you. 
“To-day you now see me here where I am, you know how I look. 
And it looks difficult for anyone to come here. It is possible for you 
to see this place because these manitous have blessed you. That is 
why you see this place where | am. Only the one who in the future 
is blessed by those whom I have hired will see what this place, here, 
looks like. You may know it by this sign; if any one is secretly 
blessed by an evil manitou, he will be decided upon right there, not 
here. 
“Just so those who have blessed you, have decided upon you. 
Now they are done. No one will say anything (more) to you, 
because the required number of manitous have spoken to you. 
You have been made to walk around your earth (down there). Right 
here is the last time thay have decided upon you. So now you 
think very hard of what they have told you, for now you must go. 
Try to lead a quiet life; think of each other equally alike, yonder; I 
speak to the people of your gens in common. 
