MICHELSON. ] ORIGIN OF THE WHITE BUFFALO DANCE. 195 
Then, it is said, as soon as he was finished with his gens festival, 
his wife said: “Might we not perhaps be able to go over and see 
where the storm went by?” he was told. “Well, we might go over 
and see it,’ he said to his wife. Then, it is said, they went over 
there together and there were even very large trees lying around; 
some, it is said, were lying with great fissures in them. The earth 
had large holes in it (caused by the wind). That was why he was 
unwilling. ‘That is why I am staying around in a lonely place, 
because I am unwilling that we should be depended upon. I thought 
it too much trouble, that is why we are staying around the lonely 
place,” he said to her. 
Then, it is said, that man began to think about the people. He 
was not to be thought of as ‘“‘I too,” by the beings who were in his 
sacred pack.“ Then after a while he knew what the beings who 
were inside of his sacred pack thought of him. Truly they were 
ashamed of themselves, because those who were in his sacred pack 
wanted to besurely worshipped. Then, it is said, he took them all out. 
Those who were there in his sacred pack did not know what 
expressions to make on their faces. 
Then at once a white buffalo arrived. Then they were each one 
jerked up. ‘“‘You must have crooked ears; you have never done 
what I told you as you should,” they were told. Then, it is said, 
“T have control over you, as many of you as are in here,” they were 
told. They said nothing. “That is just exactly what this person 
thinks of his fellow-people. And that you are to be worshipped 
truly, is what you want. That is what I reprimand you for. Why 
they do not think themselves clean. That they may go there to 
live with the people is what we want them to do. I truly thought 
so, and that is the reason I started over here. If I did not do this 
to you, finally you would think in an evil way toward these our people. 
He, this person who takes care of you, is he who owns you,” they 
were told. “‘ Now truly if you ever do so agaiv, you will discontinue 
being with him. Whenever he moves back, he will cast you away 
at that place. But you shall remain lying there, and you will not 
be able to go back. That will surely happen to you. 
“That is, if you in any way think wickedly. You are to help 
these our people in a righteous way. You are not placed there to 
be stingy toward them. The large manitous themselves, personally, 
have placed you here,” the beings who were in his sacred pack were 
told. 
7 A literal translation; real significance unknown. 
