MICHELSON. ] ORIGIN OF THE WHITE BUFFALO DANCE. 89 
“Tf the person who does not even fast, would attend to this religion 
all the time, he could be able to reach (his span of) life. ‘O yes, that 
is the way,’ is what he will think, who will realize things. And then 
another thing. Of you who are of this gens, some will worship care- 
fully, it is they, of whom it will think. 
“And the one who does not think of it, still it will think of him too, 
it will not think less of him, but then he will die very easily. And 
the one who thinks it true will not die easily. Disease will never 
affect him. Even if all the people are stricken with disease, he will 
live there without trouble. He is the person, whom this religion 
knows. And then when he worships, it will be finished nicely; it will 
be he whom it knows. And as for the one who thinks foolishly of it, 
when he worships, it will not be finished nicely in the manner it 
should, to be finished nicely. 
“Just so you must think seriously of all your fellow-people. 
“And then when you sing for dances, they must dance very heartily, 
who are to dance for you. Sing four dancing songs for them. When 
you sing for them to dance in one day it will be only four times, 
because there were four manitou-wickiups here which you entered. 
Just so many times you have been pleased in regard to your life; 
likewise four times you were spoken to about it. That truly is why 
you are to give four dances. 
“You must only give them dances only four times. Any one 
may dance as long as he likes, he may dance even if he does not 
know how to dance. No one will make fun of him. If he is made 
fun of, the one who makes fun of him, instead will be making fun of 
himself, and he will not be making fun of that person in any way. 
His life will be transferred to him, so that person will live that much 
longer of whom he was making fun. That is what will happen to 
him. 
“And when you worship us, you are not to drop a bit (of the food). 
Instruct each other to eat it carefully. You are not to think of 
eating carelessly. You are to eat it up carefully that you may not 
drop a bit. That is the thing which is handed to the manitou, but 
you shall eat it. Of course not you yourselves, but your friends are 
they who will eat it. That is the way you must tell them how to 
eat it. That is the way you will make the manitou feel (happy). 
“Tf you drop it when eating, when it gets there it will be dirty; 
verily he will not eat it. He will think it dirty. That is why I say 
to you, ‘eat it carefully.’ If you always do that, you will always 
please the manitou. If you always do that you will make him feel 
sad. If, however, you make the manitou who has been named sad, 
then your lives will continually become stronger. Finally your age 
will be more; that is when you are touching his feeling. 
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