MICHELSON. ] ORIGIN OF THE WHITE BUFFALO DANCE. 157 
Hence it was, it is said, that then the Sioux were badly beaten. All 
their chiefs had been slain. Although the Sioux were larger built 
men, yet just the same they were badly beaten, and many indeed 
were slain. They all fled, leaving their homes. 
It is said after all had deserted them the Indians had great feasts. 
After having great feasts then they left. ‘Do not burn up their 
homes,” they were told by the leader. Then it is said they went 
away, going back whence they came. When they were but a little 
way those wailing were heard by them. They made the Sioux cry. 
They themselves were not killed by them. 
Then it is said when they got home they had great dances. Then 
he gave a speech about his sacred pack: “This, my sacred pack, is 
reason why they could not be slain, untie it,’ so he said. “Truly my 
sacred pack is known. The manitous know it; so now I love it very 
much. Each and every one of you, to whose gens I belong, love your 
sacred pack, for it is your sacred pack too. It is not my sacred pack 
alone. This is our sacred pack. I have been to feed it, it had a very 
fine meal. There was not a bit of trouble. It has made the young 
men very brave indeed. May be our life will be good, if we continue 
to do as this tells us. May be we might live a long time. In the 
same way if we think of our sacred pack, it will not only watch us but 
it will watch us allin general. Just as many as there are with whom 
we live, so many of us will it watch, as many of us as our chief con- 
trols. No doubt if we had not had this sacred pack, those Sioux are 
the ones who would have contrived to kill us. They are the people 
who will never leave us alone. We shall always hate each other 
strongly. They will never stop thinking of us, and I shall never stop 
thinking of them. Just as long as this earth remains, I shall think 
of them.” 
Then it is said some time soon they were again sick; the Indians 
were stricken with disease. Many had coughing spells and strangled 
to death by coughing. Many of them died. He realized that they 
were suffering. Then it is said he boiled a large quantity of medicine. 
It is said he even boiled two kettles full. He told them to drink. So 
they drank, all of them, each taking a little. 
“That is all, now nothing will happen to you,” he told them. 
Many people had already died. Then it is said he told them, “This 
is why it happened to us. A little evil manitou has traveled by. 
That is why many of us died, because he traveled by. And if he had 
not gone by here, that would not have happened to you. You have 
smelled the way he went by; that was what smothered you. He 
really does not want us to die. He was simply going by, but he 
smells badly. And he does not know that he has killed many of us. 
