MICHELSON. ] ORIGIN OF THE WHITE BUFFALO DANCE. LS 
have always spoken well about married life to you,” he was told. 
They could not see her at all. Surely his mother’s voice spoke thus 
when (some one) spoke thus. He got up and went over there and 
sat down. When he went there to sit down all came outside. Then 
it is said that woman said to him, ‘ You barely made up your mind to 
come and sit down where I am sitting,’ he was told by that young 
maiden. ‘It is because they had to talk to you a long time (to 
persuade you),” he was told. 
Then, it is said, that night they started out, and he took that 
woman to where they lived. The next morning the young girls (saw) 
a very beautiful (girl) woke up from there and that he had married, 
But it is said that he had no children. That man and she were 
married very quietly. 
Of that married couple the man was a successful hunter and the 
woman knew how to do all kinds of work, and she was loved by those 
women just as if she were a grown woman. They collected and gave 
her presents of finery. After she had been given presents collectively, 
then she took the things home. Then she gave them to her brother. 
Then, it is said, that man always every once in a while, continued to 
give instructions to his fellow clansmen. ‘‘ Whenever you are giving 
a speech, contrive not to let this be absent, ‘so be it, oh, so be it.’ 
That saying should always be used, that is a manitou-word. So 
that is what you must always say. It seems as if this is easy, namely, 
the way we speak in our worship. 
“And you ought to think seriously to remember these songs. 
‘Probably you have learned these (songs),’ I have never said that to 
you. I shall never speak unkindly to you. That is the way I do. 
What I very much desire of you is that you know them equally alike 
that no one shall know them another way. That you know them in 
one way is what I desire of you. That no one will fool you, is what I 
want of you,” he told them. “And that you would love them very 
strongly is another thing I desire very much of you,” was what he 
usually told them. 
Then pretty soon some people noticed him. ‘“‘ He has never before 
done this. Now since he has been married, he has been always 
instructing us,’ they said among themselves. Truly indeed they 
knew the songs. 
Then, it is said, one time in summer, one person reported a terri- 
fying story: ‘‘I had a dream, a wind worried me terribly. There was 
wind which blew very hard, and we were blown in all directions, I 
dreamed,” he said. Then, it is said, he was made fun of, but he told 
what he had dreamed. Then, it is said, “In four days, it is said, 
that will happen,” so he said. 
