MICHELSON. ] ORIGIN OF THE WHITE BUFFALO DANCE, 179 
Then the next day they camped with each other. He (the chief's 
son) went over to his father. ‘‘ Well, father, you are not now con- 
tinuing to live as healthy lives as you did there; that was why for- 
merly I forbade you, father. Now I myself have forbidden that 
you be made well. I do not say it to these others; it is you your- 
self alone,’’ he said to his father. 
“Well, my son, I am discouraged about my life anyway, my son. 
You have pleased me by treating me like that, my son. There is 
more trouble in my living, so now I shall cease living right here. As 
soon as I ami finished talking, then I shall die,” he said to his son. 
“But, my son, lead a good, righteous life; you are always to think of 
the people, for now you shall become the chief. Certainly they will 
think that of you. If you are made a chief, think always of your 
people, that is, if you are remembered that way. And if you are not 
thought of that way, you will live a better life. That is the only 
thing I say to you, my son, at this time. That is all I am able to tell 
you, my son,” he was told. Then (his father) died. 
“Bury him, right away,” they were told. He was buried in a 
hurry. After he was buried, a fire was burning there that night. It 
kept burning there for four days during the nights, where his father 
was laid. 
Then that man (who was blessed) told the person whose father 
(the dead) was: ‘The fire is that disease; it is happy because it has 
slain a chief, that is why it is like that. Well, this is what we ought 
to do. Let us move yonder in a distant place, all of us. Then we 
must not visit each other for four days. Then when the four days are 
up, we shall have a feast together. Thus we can deliberate better as 
to whoever shall be our chief. ‘O, this person whom we shall have for 
our chief,’ is what we will say to him,” he said to that chief’s young 
man. ° . 
Now it is said that chief’s young man had only one sister. She was 
the prettiest of them all. 
Then it is said that man said, ‘We are all to move away, 
near here, but after we have camped there we must not visit each 
other for four days. Then after four days we can yisit each 
other,” he told them. ‘At that time we shall see whom we shall 
have for our chief. Whomever we think ‘this person perhaps,’ is he 
whom we shall have for chief,’ he told the people. They were very 
happy over it. 
Then they moved to a new location. For four days they did 
not visit each other. At the fourth day no one remained sick. 
They had all become well. Then it is said they feasted together. 
68 Tdiomatic for chief’s son. 
