MICHELSON. ] ORIGIN OF THE WHITE BUFFALO DANCE. iS 
They thought attentively; in fact, it is said all of them were like 
that; yet only some realized what they did. When it was almost 
time for them to go to their respective homes, “If you even thought 
attentively now, you would forget all about your stomachs being 
satisfied. No doubt your stomachs are no longer satisfied. The 
reason this could happen to you is because you have eaten spiritually. 
If you had eaten commonly, no doubt you all would have over- 
eaten. Now it is not so. If you think carefully, you have eaten a 
large quantity; at least you think so,” he told them. Then indeed 
all the people thought intently. 
To be sure some of them were hungry. ‘I wonder how the food 
which I have eaten is?” they thought. 
Then it is said, after the one acting as ceremonial attendant had 
bundled up the sacred pack, ‘‘Now, you may each depart, for you 
have eaten up nicely for us that which we have handed to the mani- 
tou,” he said to the people, for there were many of them. At this 
time it was toward evening. 
Then to the confréres of his gens, ‘Do not go yet; or any one who 
thinks, ‘I shall listen,’ may remain here, a woman or aman. Now | 
shall relate a little about my life,” he said to them. 
Many remained who were going to listen. After they ate then he 
began to narrate. First of all he said, ‘‘ Now, you (who are here) to 
listen to us must also listen very intently to us. You have gladdened 
me in that you thought of listening to me. I am very happy with 
you. The one who created this earth is why we are happy now. It 
is he whom we have pleased,” he said to them. ‘‘Those of my gens 
are the ones I am telling, but in case they do not understand me, 
‘This is what he used to tell us,’ you are to tell them. That is why 
I ask you to spread the news,” he said to them. 
“All right,” he was answered favorably. ; 
Then it is said he began narrating. ‘“‘ You see how my mother 
looks; she is the one who was lost, when carrying me around on her 
back when I was just a baby, she had many narrow escapes from the 
Sioux. No doubt you have often heard her tell about it,” he said to 
them. ‘Or perhaps she may never have told about it. Those who 
we have just worshipped were the reason why she was not killed; 
she was hidden; that was why she was not overtaken by the Sioux. 
My mother had already been chased, running with me on her back, 
when I was a baby. 
“Then my father was told by those same buffaloes, ‘You will see 
her over there,’ he was told, meaning his wife. Then by that time, it 
is said, my mother was hungry. Then my father took some food for 
my mother to eat. To be sure he saw her sitting the time he was 
told. Then my father carried me on his back. And as for us, I and 
my father, my father must have known beforehand that he would 
have me for his son. 
