MICHELSON. ] ORIGIN OF THE WHITE BUFFALO DANCE. 175 
Pretty soon their chief (said): ‘Eventually, I am getting tired of 
this place, always staying at the same place. We are acting like 
blind people now. Of course no one has any control of me, I myself 
have the control over our lives. And so as many of those who also 
think that way, may go with me, for I am going to move to a new 
pleasant location, not very far away from here,” he told the people. 
It is said he made some of them willing by his words. “It can not 
be,” said some. “TI shall indeed remain here and live humbly with 
them,” they said. Now it is said again he was told by the greater 
number of people, ““O, I am going with you.’ He stated the time 
when he was going to move. “It will be at that time,” he said to 
them. 
Then his son found out that he was doing that, for it is said he 
was not living with him, it is said he was at a distance. ‘‘ Well, 
father, I suppose you have already forgotten me,” he said to him. 
“Tf you think of me now, I am not sick yet., If you thought of me, 
you would not have been thinking of moving,” he was told. 
“Gracious! as if you would get sick in any way again! It is all 
right now,” his father (said). 
“Now, do not ever again wish to think of him,” he said to (his 
father). ‘‘ You will surely have to bring your head here to pray to 
him if you are in any way in danger. You will not take care of as 
many as shall go with you. That is what I have known you to do 
in the past. For myself I shall remain right here,’ his son said. 
“Tt would be better for you to go with me, my son. We then 
might always see each other about; and you might see fresh things; 
right here there is nothing.” 
‘T can not possibly do it,” his son said. 
“O, ho! Surely you will do that,” he said to (his son) 
Then it is said the people moved. And it is said a few of them 
remained; those same people who had worried over (the one blessed) 
remained. 
After they had been gone four days: ‘‘Now we shall follow our 
chief,” he said. “We shall go wherever he goes,” he told the people. 
“All right,” they said. 
“We shall move at this time, in four days; sure:y at that time,” 
he said to them. 
At that time they moved. They followed those who moved, after 
they had gone eight days. They camped on their way in the same 
places the (others) had camped in succession. Pretty soon, those in 
the lead began, each and all of them, to get sick. Nearly all of them 
became sick. One out of so many was well. They stopped, for they 
