MICHELSON. ] ORIGIN OF THE WHITE BUFFALO DANCE. 149 
He said to him (the chief), ‘This last of our life continues forever. 
If you were to pray to any one of these people here while that person 
was alive they would say to you, ‘All right.’ Surely some one might 
make him feel well. Now since he is dead, if you pray to any one, 
‘it is impossible,’ is another answer. It looks as if they were unwill- 
ing. No one ever came to life who was already dead, I have not 
heard of such a case. I shall now call all the people together, myself,” 
he told (the chief). 
He ordered them to be called together. They were hastily called 
together. Then he explained it to all the people: “Now this, our 
chief, has had a death (in his family). He wants to see his son truly 
back agam. Whoever brings him back to life will please me also. 
He will not thereby make me sad; he will please me very much. 
Whoever does that will please us all,’”’ he said to the people. Then 
no one said a word. ‘‘Now, as maybe no one has anything to say, 
I shall speak myself,” so he said. “I shall truly brmg him back to 
life myself,” he told the people. 
Then he started out going to that place. ‘“He already smells 
badly,” he was told. ‘‘ Well, that is so,” he answered. Nevertheless 
he took hold of him by the hand and raised him up. He began to 
get up. 
“T just simply wanted to know what kind of a heart you have, 
that was why I said ‘all right’ to you,” he told him. ‘From now, 
everyone shall cease praying to me. I shall think the same way 
myself,” the chief was told. Then that person was no longer sick in 
any way. 
Then they moved. And they, that young man and his mother, 
were living right behind (the main party) all the while. Then it is 
said his mother was taken sick, but the others would not wait for 
them; they were ieft. When those who moved departed, only those 
of his gens remained. That chief of theirs did not wait for them. 
When he (the chief) was gone, then it is said, he said to those of his 
gens, “‘ You may go on and move.’’ He was unable to persuade them, 
for they were unwilling. He noticed that they were those of a single 
dwelling. It was his ceremonial attendant who waited for him. 
Then it is said, later on his mother was well. They moved and 
made long stops on their way at the frames of the wickiups. 
Then one man related: ‘‘Pray jet us meet them, but do not do 
anything to them,” he told them. “ All right,” they said. 
Then surely a buffalo came running toward them at full speed. 
On top of the hill was the direction toward which he ran. 
That chief never even thought of the person by whom his son was 
made well. Soon while he was traveling, his son became sick again. 
Then it is said he stopped. His son became more and more (sick). 
Then it is said he stopped. 
