MICHELSON. ] ORIGIN OF THE WHITE BUFFALO DANCE. 143 
That man who had been talking like a manitou began to walk off 
when others began marching away. ‘This is exactly the way I too 
would have gone,”’ he said as he went along. 
“Here, here, is where he shall remain who begrudges me, and thus 
says anything tome. Do not pity him, even if it is someone’s father 
who does it. That is all I say to you.” 
They were marching on. “O, the man means me, because he 
knows that I am of the nature of a manitou, that is why he said that. 
But I am going to walk any way,” he said. While he was walking 
along soon he disappeared downward. Although he came forth into 
view down below he cried out terribly. “Support yourself, let it be 
the earth upon which you will continue to go,” he was told. They 
went right along. They, whose father he was, were afraid to go there. 
Then they reached that black object just at noon time. Then, 
“We shall stay here two days,” he said. ‘We shall make some 
cured meat so that you may give each of the children (something) to 
eat on the way. Now it shall be far where we shall go, but a large 
piece of land will be out of the water, where we shall camp,” he said 
to them. Then the women were busy making the meat, broiling it 
and roasting it on the spits. 
“Just a sufficient number,’’ they were told. “‘So you will not be , 
overloaded, though all of you will have loads on your backs,” he said 
to them. ‘But then, I am now going along with children who can 
walk, also the girls; wherever they walk we shall walk and sit down. 
Of course not those who are too small, just those who ean run,” he 
said. ‘They may just play along the way, they may just chase 
each other around,” he said. ‘‘ And the rest of you must come along 
only the way I go,” he said to them. 
Then they started out. Soon they (the children) began wrestling. 
Soon, it is said, they began to chase each other. Finally they were 
all chasing each other around, They whose children they were 
could not scold them. They went along feeling worried. They were 
worried at their children. Then, it is said, pretty soon one of them 
was made tired. Then they stopped to rest, sitting on top of the 
water. They ate a meal there unconcernedly. Then it is said, the 
children got thirsty. ‘‘Lie down flat,” they were told. They lay 
down flat. 
After a long time they arrived at the place where they were to rest. 
There was a large piece of land, which was covered with mud for a 
long distance. ‘Much of this water has gone down,” he told them. 
Then they went up the hill. On the top of the hill, where the earth 
was dry, was where they slept. 
Then they started out early. In the evening they came to the place 
where the water had come up; then they camped. 
