MICHELSON. ] ORIGIN OF THE WHITE BUFFALO DANCE. Crk 
on (himself). He speaks very well of it to you. There isn’t anything 
good about it. But this is good, the way we bless you; it isn’t evil in 
any way. It works well equally with all. Now, this is what you 
must continue to tell your fellow-clansmen " after you are all seated 
together. Then you must explain this to them, for there isn’t any 
secret about this, namely, the way we thought of you. 
“Then you must listen to me, as to how you will always make your 
speeches when you worship us. ‘Now, Spirit of the Fire, take a 
smoke, for very probably that has been settled for you by -your 
fellow-manitous, that you would in no way misinterpret to them 
whatever some may have told you, when they appointed you to be 
here. So you are to relate truthfully for us how we worship. This 
verily is what we pray for, for our lives. That we may live a long 
time, is what we desire from them. The one who is in the East is he 
whom we worship mainly. And then the one who is in the South is 
one we also worship that he will think of us only in regard to life. 
And the one who is in the West, is the one we mainly call, praying to 
him for life, which we desire from him. Then also we worship in the 
same way the one who is in the North to think of us only in regard to 
life, that is what we desire from him; and also, to drive away disease 
from us is what we pray to him for. And then, this town of our chief 
is what we pray mostly for, that (his people) may have good lives, 
that no one might get sick. That is the object of us worshipping the 
manitous who are seated under the earth. And that one who is up 
above, we also pray the same way to him, all of us of this one gens, 
holding our hands open to him. That all of us may have good lives 
is what we pray of them, that they may think in that way of us who 
worship them. 
““*And the manitous themselves did not even save one pipe-full (of 
tobacco) for themselves, so they said. So at this time let them think 
the same way of our tobacco in the same way as we implore them. 
To think of us that way is why we make you sit down for a little while, 
O, ye men and ye women.’ 
“That is the way you will make your speeches when you worship. 
People all over want to live a long time. They know how long they 
shall live. ‘I wish I could live longer,’ they would surely think. 
“This [religion] is the only thing that would guide him, but it will 
not say to him, ‘I am guiding your life.’ That is the way it is that 
we bless you. 
10 This translation is one of convenience, not accuracy; for the Fox are organized in gentes, not clans. 
