MICHELSON.] ORIGIN OF THE WHITE BUFFALO DANCE, 85 
Then it is said the man went to a lonely far off place to build. 
After he was done then their son went away. Then the man stopped 
to bathe for a long time. After he bathed for a long time he went 
over to where their son lived. When he came there, he sat down 
opposite him. ‘‘What is it,” he was told by his son. “ Now my 
son, I came to find out, to know, if you have really been blessed by 
the manitous, or if they had not blessed you, or if they had already 
blessed you. If they have not already blessed you, I shall give you, 
my son, my mystic power. Surely indeed it is that way,’’ he was 
told. 
“QO, yes, father, after you have told me, I will know how it is. 
Whatever you have carefully used, I shall use. This is the way of my 
life; just as when we make some thing, we must start it, that is the 
way I am,” he told his father. 
And then, it is said, ‘‘Now cease to think of in whatever way the 
manitous planned to bless you,” he was told. ‘‘This is it; that we 
should kill our own fellow-Indians; and no one will ever be able to 
find us out. That verily is what I want you todo. ‘Well, I declare! 
My son is making himself suffer hunger all the time,’ I think of you. 
But if you do the way I have been blessed, you would not have to 
make yourself suffer frightfully by hunger all the time. If you only 
think of anyone, ‘let this happen to him,’ the same would happen to 
him. ‘You will cease to see daylight at this time,’ if you think of 
(anyone), that surely would happen. Besides, you are my son,” he 
said to his son. 
And then after he had been told that by his father, ‘‘Now father, I 
must not agree with you in the way you are blessed. Father, say no 
more tome. You can merely go your own best way to practice that. 
And me, father, the manitou has blessed me another way, not that I 
shall hate you in any way from it. This is what he planned for me, 
to make sacred packs, that is the way he has planned for me. If he 
had planned for me this way, I would say to him willingly ‘All right.’ 
As it is now, I have been thought of entirely another way. I have 
also been blessed to be told of this. Although I have been warned of 
it, ‘No,’ I was told. You would not, when you were first instructed 
in this, see the being who first made this,’”’ he said to his father. 
“The being who thinks about this earth, is what is good; there is 
not anything disturbing in whatever he says. That is what I say to 
you,” he said to him. 
His father said no more to him and started to go out. 
It was night; then his grandfather came to him. Then he (his 
grandfather) let him smell where (his father) had been sitting. It 
smelled very bad indeed. ‘‘That is just how hateful the being is by 
whom your father was blessed, and it does not smell good in any way. 
“You smell evilly,’ is the way he smells, after he has that (evil medicine) 
