MICHELSON. ] ORIGIN OF THE WHITE BUFFALO DANCE, 151 
Then again, ‘Pray let us always live here right,” he (the hero) was 
told by his mother. ‘All right,” he said to her. Then they kept on 
living there. They made their town-buildings. 
And it is said, one fast runner was ordered back. Then he ran back. 
Later on he arrived running there. When he came running there, 
“You are requested to move, it is said,” he told them. “That is 
what our chief declares ‘They are to go there fn haste,’ he says of 
you.’”’ Then it is said, “We have already taken the trouble to com- 
plete building our homes,” he told him. “You may go wherever 
you please. ‘We shall not move to anywhere for a long time,’ tell 
him.” Then it is said, “ You tell our chief just exactly what I have 
told you,” he told him. ‘Some time soon, when you remember us, 
you come over to see us, you will see us right here,” he said to him. 
He ran back again. As soon as he was first met he (the chief) 
asked “At what place are they camping?” ‘O, yonder far away. 
They even have a town there. ‘We shall remain living right here,’ 
they said. ‘We have taken so much trouble to build,’ they said, 
‘Whenever you remember us, you may come here to see us, we shall 
be living right here’ they said,’ he (the chief) was told. 
(For the first time) he (the chief) came to a realization. ‘‘ What, 
pray, is the matter with me, that I did not wait for them? I uncon- 
cernedly came right on, moving. I did not even think of anything; I 
was not even thinking of them. And he surely had made me happy 
in the past by what he did for me,” he thought. He was indeed 
weeping. 
“Now, if I ever persuade him I shall be a friend of his,” he thought. 
“Now my people, we might as well move back. They have a town 
somewhere, so it is said of them. That is where we shall go, wherever 
they have their town. But I shall make use of four young men to 
inform the person who made that sacred pack. This is what they 
shall tell him, ‘He prays to you, for his family has a sickness,’ they 
will say to him; that is what they will tell him. Then from there 
they must come back without delay. ‘He will be brought here,’ they 
will tell him,” thus he said. 
Four young men were ordered to go there. When they reached 
the place, sure enough to their astonishment they were living there. 
Then it is said they spoke to him. “Now this is why we have 
come: you have been prayed to doctor the one who is sick,” they 
told him. “Our chief’s son is sick, it is said that he will be brought 
here. Probably they have already begun to bring him hither,” they 
said to him. 
Then his mother spoke up. “That is the only time my son is 
thought of, when anyone is sick. When I was sick, why, we were 
simply straightway abandoned. No one then was worried over us. 
