MICHELSON. ] ORIGIN OF THE WHITE BUFFALO DANCE. 93 
He told (his father): ‘Well, I must have slept very soundly,” he 
said to him. 
“O, yes, you have certainly slept very soundly. But we did not 
know that you were perhaps sleeping,’”’ he was told. His father did 
not act rightly. 
And then (he said) to his mother: ‘Mother, you go and make a 
wickiup for me, apart from (the other),’’ he said to his mother. 
“All right,” he was told. She went to make it. After making it, 
she came back. 
He only staid home four days: then he went away to his wickiup. 
And then, ““You are to come over there,’ he said to his mother, 
“you come over there after I have gone a little while,” he said to her. 
His mother did that; she came over there. 
He asked her, ‘‘ Mother,” he said to her, “did this father of mine 
give you his medicine?” he said to her. 
“No,” she said. “If it is true that he has not given it to you, 
you are all right. For it is an evil medicine which my father had 
been given knowledge of. I am unwilling for him to think strongly 
of it. You will do well if you refuse to take it from him; you will 
make yourself happy. Or if you accept it from him then what shall 
happen to him will happen to you. 
“My father is not known by the true manitous. This being by 
whomever he was blessed is the only one by whom he is known. 
And as for me, even the manitou who is above knows me, because 
the manitous have thought of me only in a righteous way. Our 
grandfathers have blessed me the very finest way. 
“My father could not talk about his blessing where there is a great 
crowd. As for me myself, all these people all over will know about 
me, all will listen to me. And I shall continually use the songs; I 
will always sing them also: they will listen to me. 
“He could not begin to tell about his blessing. That is just what 
I am unwilling for you both to do. ‘I wish my mother would not 
accept it from him,’ is what I think of you, mother,” he said to his 
mother. “‘So please do that. Do not accept it from my father. 
You will see how weak his life is, and then his medicine will not help 
him. 
“T shall speak to him from here. He will never see me again 
when I come. I shall come again, but he will have gone. That is 
what I say of my father, mother.” 
And then truly the woman did believe her son. After she had 
been addressed, she told him, “‘ Now it is true, my son, I have known 
(your father) to kill many of our fellow-peopie. He had no reason 
to kill them; some he attacked in revenge merely because he had 
