MICHELSON. ] ORIGIN OF THE WHITE BUFFALO DANCE. 193 
“He has spoken to me, so be it, that he would not fail to hear me, 
so be it. ‘You may worship me in the most lonely place,’ so be it, 
that is, so be it, what he said to me, so be it. That is why I, so be it, 
pray to him for quiet, so be it, life, so be it, because he is the head 
manitou, so be it. He must have, so be it, spoken to, so be it, the 
White Buffalo to continue to give us blessings. That is why we 
freely speak to him, because that was his promise, so be it, which he 
placed in my blessing, so be it; that is why, so be it, we are also 
praying to him, so be it. That is merely what we pray to him for 
quiet changes of the seasons in the future, so be it. 
“That what is a dangerous thing, so be it, may never come to us, 
so be it, is what we pray to him for. At this time our children have 
been frightened; so I ask him that that kind of a thing shall never 
strike us; that is what I mainly ask him for. How verily will he 
lie to me in the way it will be? He will do just as I tell him, for he 
thinks of me in a righteous way. That truly is the only way I ask 
of him. It is his own thought that he be not asked an evil thing; 
thus he must have spoken, that we continue to pray for, so be it, 
so be it, the righteous things always, so be it. 
“That, so be it, is the way, so be it, you must pray to me, so be it. 
Only, so be it, was that, so be it, the way he spoke, so be it. That is 
why I pray to him that way, so be it. Him, so be it, we pray to, 
so be it, most of all, so be it,” was the way the spokesman said in his 
speech. 
Then they began their gens festival. He (the attendant) went 
away and left. ‘‘ Probably I am not thought of in any way,” thought 
the ceremonial attendant. That, it is said, was why he left. Then, 
it is said, when (the speaker) stopped speaking: ‘‘ Well, what about 
my ceremonial attendant,” he said to the others. ‘Gracious! he has 
gone,’ they said. ‘‘O he probably may be feeling badly in some 
way,” he said unconcernedly. 
Then, it is said, when they were finished with their gens festival 
he was still gone. “Pray, what is the matter with him,” he thought. 
Then, it is said, pretty soon he and his attendant saw each other 
in some lonely place. “Well, what was the matter with you, that 
you did not come back over there?”’ he said to him. 
“Well, this was what I thought, ‘Well, why am I just staying 
around all the time? I have in no way been spoken to,’ I thought 
formerly. That was why I soon went out. I did not go out angry. 
When I was really obliged to attend to nature, then I went for good. 
I only thought, ‘[He is] my friend.’ That is all. I do not desire that 
I shall in any way be angry at your sacred pack here. That is what 
I thought, my friend. Then I hated to do so, but now I shall not 
hate to do so,” he promised. 
