MICHELSON. ] ORIGIN CF THE WHITE BUFFALO DANCE. 155 
“Now, this was what you told me before, ‘For this once only,’ you 
told me. ‘Probably it is true,’ I thought of you. That is why I did 
not forget you; that was why I thought of you very much. When 
there was one sick (in my family) you went right on. You did not 
wait for me, not even a little while,” the chief was told. He dropped 
his head downward. “From now on do not ever again think of me. 
To-day you will speak truthfully,” he was told. Then he lifted his 
head up. 
Then the other started out. (The corpse) smelt badly, yet he was 
made come back to life for them. 
It is said a long time after he was made well, he was weak. (The 
chief) spoke because he had been made happy: ‘‘This man shall be 
my mouth,” so he said. “That is the way the manitou wants him 
to do. Now I shall not think of crawling out, myself. This is the 
man upon whom I shall depend entirely. Whatever he says is the 
way I shall lead my life,” so he said. 
Then it is said that son of his (said to him): ‘‘ You must always 
invite him over when we have good meals, when we have turkeys 
for our meals. For they, turkeys, are the things of which he thinks 
very much. Verily you must always think of how to feast him well. 
What, pray, is it that you have ever done to please him, while he 
has pleased us twice? He has made us very happy; for he made it 
possible for you to see me twice, that is what you should always 
realize. And you ought to think always how to make his mother 
happy. That is what I think (you ought to do). But maybe you 
think nothing of it. So now, you must always think of how happy 
he has made me,” he said to his father. 
Then it is said (that young man) gave many dances. Then, some 
time soon, he led a war party. He told his mother about it. ‘“ Well, 
you eventually might cause the boys to be slain,” she said to him. 
He was indeed severely scolded. Then it is said, nevertheless, he 
started out. He was accompanied by many young men. They 
were moving on for some time. Pretty soon, ‘‘ When we come to a 
view here, then we shall see where our foes are. So you must fight 
with all your might,”’ he said to them. ‘All right,” they indeed 
said. When they came to a view, behold (the enemy) bad many 
dwellings. Some, it is said, at once began to become chilled. 
Then they fought against each other. It is said they fought 
against each other for a long time. They killed only those who were 
of mysterious power. Many Sioux were slain, not the common 
people, but those who were in some way of the nature of manitous. 
The Sioux were deprived of their sacred pack. After it was taken 
away all of them wept. Then that thing was tied up with the sacred 
pack. Butitissaid that it was tied up with an extra one inside of it. 
63 An old fashioned way of saying the youth is to be supreme in all things. 
6 That is, the pack of the one blessed. 
