MICHELSON. ] ORIGIN OF THE WHITE BUFFALO DANCE. 105 
I have a buffalo-blanket; 
I have a buffalo-blanket; 
I have a buffalo-blanket; 
The manitous have given me a buffalo-blanket; 
I have a buffalo-blanket; 
I have a buffalo-blanket; 
I have a buffalo-blanket.*” 
Then they danced again. This is how they sang: 
I am dancing myself around, I am dancing myself around; 
I am dancing myself around, I am dancing myself around; 
It is when I am dancing myself around; 
It is when I am dancing myself around; 
Iam dancing myself around.™ 
They will say, they will say; 
They will say, they will say; 
They will say; 
The buffaloes 
Will say, they will say; 
They will say; 
They will say; 
They will say, they will say; 
It is he; 
They will say; 
He said.*# 
Whatever he has done, I shall do the same; 
Whatever he has done, I shall do the same; 
Whatever he has done, I shall do the same; 
Whatever he has done, I shall do the same; 
Whatever he has done, I shall do the same; 
Whatever he has done, I shall do the same.** 
They, the buffaloes, are going about with light; 
They, the buffaloes, are going about with light; 
They, the buffaloes, are going about with light; 
They, the buffaloes, are going about with light; 
They go about slowly with dim light; 
They go about slowly with dim light; 
They, the buffaloes, are going about with light; 
Slowly.*® 
Then it is said after they had danced again, then, “What ever is 
first cooked, is what we shall eat, ceremonial attendants,” the cere- 
monial attendants were told. He dished out (the food). After 
85 Supposed to be said by the one blessed. ‘‘He’’ means the white buffalo. Note -*kwdanifor-qwan'n'. 
The common words for ini+ -teyand which is for ini/*tayan*", are “ini wi'i'cawiyann**, Observe that 
nina+ is lacking inline 2. The translation can not bring this out. 
46 According to the informant, along time ago when a herd of buffaloes were standing together at night- 
time, there was a flashing of light; in the morning there was just dim light. The song has reference to this. 
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