MICHELSON. ] ORIGIN OF THE WHITE BUFFALO DANCE. 83 
“When I speak to you now, then you must make the sacred pack, 
and you will own it in common; you shall not possess it alone. All 
of you must think of this sacred pack alike. If any one of the con- 
fréres of your gens should say to you, ‘I am going to hold a gens 
festival,’ you are to tell him, ‘it will be very good if you do.’ You 
should certainly not hold all the gens festivals yourself, for anyone 
who is a fellow-member of your gens is an owner of it; even a little 
baby after it is named has then an ownership init. That is how it is. 
And you must not make merry over it with each other, because you 
will desire your fellow people to have healthy lives; that is the object 
of you doing thus. That is the mouthful I say to you,” he was told. 
Then he was taken down. When he returned, then he woke up. 
It was in the fall when he went to sleep, and it was precisely in spring 
when he woke up. The grass was up quite a bit, and the flowers 
were in, bloom and in abundance. When he looked at the trees, they 
all had already leaved out. 
He was sitting there all the time. It is a fact that he had been 
asleep all winter long. For a long time the mark showed where he 
had lain. As he was sitting there, ‘““O, how strange! I must have 
been lying here all winter long,’ he thought. He was yet sleepy. 
When he got up, he staggered around as he was weak from lying 
down. He went away to his little home. Only the frame of a 
wickiup was there. Then he went to the village. When he got to 
his parents’ home he ate a meal. He went to sleep. 
And then it is said again the same one came to him. ‘I suppose 
you know what songs you are to have, and the speeches,” he was 
told. ‘I shall instruct you slowly what songs you are to have, 
They are many; that is why I tell you slowly. Besides I shall 
instruct you very slowly even in regard to this sacred pack. Very 
slowly shall I likewise instruct you on what a dancer is to do. The 
speech of worship I shall instruct you slowly. That is what I came 
to tell you. So you go and live in a far off and lonely place again 
for a while. Not at the frame of your wickiup, at some other far 
away lonely place. Then I shall instruct you fully. That is all I 
came to tell you,” he was told. “Do just as I tell you,” he was told. 
“ All right,’”’ he said to him. Then (the visitor) went away. 
It is a fact, it is said, that he had slept for four days. That length 
of time had his parents failed to waken him. He was only known 
to be alive by breathing. 
After he woke up, “Are you conscious ?”’ he was told. ‘‘ Yes,” he 
said to his mother. He was fed, and he told his father: ‘“‘ Now, 
father, move me away for the last time; I shall live in some far away 
lonely place,’’ he said to him. 
“ All right,” he was told. 
