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“Never again from now on think in an evil way toward them. If 
they think righteously toward each other, then you must help them 
very much in that way; then you will please us also. ‘That is the 
way we bless them,’ we shall think. And if you do not aid them in 
that way you will not in the least please us,” they were told. 
Then, it is said, they really aided them; then they were never 
again refused anything. This was why they had been refused, 
because those kinds of furs who were in their sacred pack were 
unwilling. 
Then he constantly was thinking of his fellow-people, thinking all 
the time of a good way for them to do. 
Then, it is said, soon he again knew what was going to happen to 
them, namely, that they would be stricken with disease. He informed 
them without reservation. “This is what is going to happen to you; 
you will be stricken with disease,” he told them. ‘‘ But we shall flee 
in that direction,” he told them, informing them each one of them 
without reservation. That very thing happened to them. They 
fled, deserting their dwellings. Later on, when they came back, their 
things were just as they had been. “You may at last simply have 
them back, for we have already fled; now, verily, you may at last 
re-own them,” he told them. 
Then, it is said, after they were staying there pleasantly, pretty 
soon a white buffalo came running to where they lived. “Now 
to-day you must move right now; again the disease is coming, but 
you must only cross this river, on the other shore you may camp. 
And let no one eat meat for four days. For that is a short time. 
You can just be eating the potatoes and sweet potatoes, these two 
things you may eat. If you do not believe me, you will not be doing 
right. You will cause an awful fate on yourselves if you do what I 
forbid you. And if you do this as I tell you, you will do a great good 
for yourselves. Well, you can continue to scold each other. You 
can continue to direct each other a way which is good,” he (the one 
blessed) was told by the white buffalo. Then, it is said, he at once 
told it. 
The people were frightened, but they did so. Then, it is said, they 
could not be sick. 
Then one man went out hunting. Later on he killed a red turkey 
without arms. It had red feathers. He went on to cook it. It was 
quite fat. After he had cooked it, then those who were living 
together began eating. 
