MICHELSON. ] ORIGIN OF THE WHITE BUFFALU DANCE. 163 
Then they all went away. They took along that medicine in 
different directions. They placed the medicine away very carefully. 
Some (said) to their husbands: ‘‘We have divided up the medicine,” 
was what they told them. ‘Our fellow-clansmen™ gaye it to us,” 
they said among themselves. 
It was known all over that they had been given medicine by that 
man. 
Then when they were to hold a gens festival the men went on a big 
hunt. And the women’s husbands went out hunting game for them. 
Those who talked much were ashamed, but they ordered their husbands 
to hunt turkeys for them. They hunted turkeys and killed them too. 
And they (the women) also ordered them to take it over to that 
place. And they did so. They took them over there. 
Then, it is said, when they had their gens festival they were told 
quietly by him, “‘Be quiet,” they were told. “It is nothing to me, 
and this medicine has been given us; the White Buffalo gave us his 
own heart. He is the same one who gave us this sacred pack and 
likewise the medicine,” he told them. 
Then it is said after they had the gens festival one of his gens fell 
down dead. Surely he was dead. Then they let that thing soak in 
water for him. That dead person was made to drink it. Soon, it is 
said, his eyes eventually became natural. That he was brought to 
life, is a fact; he surely was alive. Then, it is said, they actually 
believed it to be true. 
Then, it is said, ‘‘ This is what we shall eall it: ‘Life,’ we shall cali 
this,” so one said. “All right,”’ said the one who gave them the 
medicine. “‘ But this person who named it must give us four feasts. 
And he shall live with this four days. We must all put it there,” 
those who had medicine were told. ‘‘He will tell when he shall 
begin to worship it, for this is how he shall have to worship, by 
giving feasts for four days. But we shall feast ourselves; there will 
be no outsider. We of this gens only will be given feasts by our 
fellow-clansman,”’ he told his friends. 
Then, it is said, ‘‘ Well, at this time, to-morrow at noon, after you 
have brought it in all together,” he told them. ‘All right,’’ he was 
told by them. 
The next day they brought it in together. Then the following day 
at noon they were invited to feast. Then, it is said, ‘‘ Now, this is 
the way our fellow-clansmen ought to do also once in a while, and 
then you might cook for each other. Of course it is nothing but 
66 A convenient if not strictly accurate translation. 
