MICHELSON. ] ORIGIN OF THE WHITE BUFFALO DANCE. aLval 
have given you equally alike, because you have taken good care of 
this our dwelling. This is why I make you happy; because you have 
also made me happy by helping my mother,” he said to them. 
Then, it is said, the maidens each carried them away on their 
backs, going to the different directions. When they arrived at 
where they lived they looked at it. Lo, it is said that it was finery. 
After putting it away they departed thither. All of them were quiet. 
The old woman also put hers away. “If anyone comes to live 
with us again, I will let her take this away,” she said in her talk 
when she was putting her bundle away. 
Pretty soon again, another young girl came there to stay. Then 
she gave it to that little maiden. Then her son (said): ‘You have 
made me happy by giving it to our girl. You treat her very nicely. 
You have gratified them whose daughter she is. That surely is what 
I thought,” he said to his mother. 
It is said that she (the girl) had ran away secretly to go there to 
live with them. Pretty soon they whose daughter she was (saw her) 
coming with a load on her back. Then that woman related to her 
mother: ‘‘I have been over there, where our sacred pack hangs. 
I am going to live with them there,” she said to her-mother. Then, 
“Do whatever your father says to you,” she was told. Then when 
her father came he was told the story. ‘‘ Well, I will say something 
toher. I think that would bea good thing. Surely she will probably 
be quiet staying there. Only be good,” he said. 
Then she started out. Now just at the time when she arrived 
there, ‘Now, my grandchildren, come here and sit together. I am 
going to make (something) known to you,” they were told. She 
also went there and sat down. “ Now, I shall give you instructions 
for a little while. What I am about to say to you this day will 
happen so. You will recognize it that way,” she told them. ‘This 
is it, when you each begin to take husbands unto yourselves they 
will dress each one of you in finery; you will be dressed up in finery,” 
the old woman said. “Of course we know nothing about it,” she 
said to them. ‘We just simply each take a husband unto ourselves, 
but at this time that is what you are to do,” shesaid to them. ‘‘ That 
is all I have to tell you,” she said to them. They were all laughing. 
“O, that is her, eh,” she was told by those young maidens. 
Then that man came in. “ What makes you laugh so gaily?” he 
said to them. Then, it is said, that man said to that mother of his, 
“Mother,” he said to her, ‘you treat your grandchildren very nicely. 
If you say anything bad to them you will indeed treat this your 
body (evilly), for you no longer do anything; you are just simply 
staying here. These little girls are they who do all the work you 
had been doing,” he said to his mother. ‘‘That is why I say to 
you, ‘Speak quietly to them,’ mother,” he said to her. 
