MICHELSON. ] ORIGIN OF THE WHITE BUFFALO DANCE, 91 
“That is what the manitou wants you todo. ‘Well, these (people) 
really wish to live;’ that is the way he will think of you. But if 
you do not do that, ‘Oh well, they are merely lying when they think 
of their life;’ that is what the manitou will think, just as if he shall 
never hear you, just as if he shall never know about your religion; 
that is the way it will be if you go on with your worship. And if 
you do just what I tell you, it will be thus. And then you will have 
these songs. These are the ones you shall continually use just as 
long as this earth shall endure. And you are not to sing them 
differently than whatever way I sing. That is the way you must 
sing, just like that always. You are not to sing them at all differ- 
ently. Sing the same way always. And this sacred pack, you must 
always smoke it. When smoking it use those cedar leaves. That is 
what you are to use. That is the thing the manitous love most to 
smell. Burn it, then fan the wind toward it. In one day smoke it 
eight times, not yourselves, but they who are acting as ceremonial 
attendants for you are they who will smoke it for you. And as for 
the order you shall sit in the gens festivai, the drummer must sit in 
the center. And then the spokesman will sit at the end who will 
speak for things sacrificed, who shall pray for life for every one, 
your lives in general and for those who shall conduct the service. 
That is what you will speak about to him, and that is what you shall 
ask the manitou for, namely, life; that is what you will insist upon 
asking for. 
“And I shall explain the songs to you, but you must first build 
another dwelling,”’ he was told. “‘ Rebuild aside from here a little 
way,” he was told by him. 
Then the other went away as he suddenly awoke. His wickiup 
was all worn out. And it is said no person could ever reach it, for 
it is said at that place there was an angry buffalo. It is said that 
when anyone shot at it, he surely would be struck in some way. 
So it is said they were afraid to go near there. 
They had no idea it is said of what had become of him. “ He may 
probably have died,” they said among themselves; and some, ‘He 
must have turned into a buffalo,” they said among themselves. 
It is said that just as long as he was dreaming he was guarded, 
and while he was sleeping inside there. 
And then it is said, after he woke up, he was not a bit hungry. 
The buffalo, it is said, then ran away. He found that his wickiup 
had rotted very badly. He went away, for he was weak from sleep- 
ing. When he reached where his parents lived, his father was 
ashamed of himself toward him. 
