MICHELSON. ] ORIGIN OF THE WHITE BUFFALO DANCE. 203 
“Now you may go out,” they were told. ‘You had better stop to 
put on your skirts in there,” they were told. Just as they went out, 
the same thing happened to them; they felt as clean as possible. 
“Now for the last’ time,’ he said. ‘‘That will be the worst one, 
because those who were afraid of it, did not go in here straight away,” 
he said. 
Then the same ones were ordered. 
“Now, women, you just stay here; you hold them if they fall out,” 
they were told, “if your fellow women stay.” “All right,” they said 
among themselves. And, it is said, they remained there. ‘After 
they have crawled in, then you must sit here crowded in a circle 
outside,” he said to the women. 
Then, it is said, after they had crawled in and they all had taken 
their clothes off, he began talking to them. ‘‘ Now, the reason why I 
am now doing this to you, so that the disease will go out. Let no one 
desire to go out. You are to stay right here. If, however, any one 
should go out, she will surely die. You do not have to stay here 
very long. I shall pour (water) on this stone only four times. That 
you will remember it thereby, is why I tell you. I am not going in. 
I shall only put my hand in to pour (water) on it for you,’ he said to 
the women. 
Some, it is said, were frightened. “I wonder what will happen to 
us now,” they thought. 
Then he began speaking at length to that stone. ‘“‘O, our grand- 
father, so be it, now, so be it, you will kick out, so be it, for these, 
so be it, your grandchildren, so be it, the disease, so be it,’’ was the 
way he spoke for them. 
After speaking for them, he poured (water) on that stone. 
Then, it is said, the women were excited from the heat. Those 
who were in constant fear, were bumping around (the sides of sweat- 
jodge). Then, it is said, the women held them. ‘Just hold them 
steadily in one place,” they were told. They held them steadily. 
Then, it is said, these were bitten again and again by some women. 
After (water) had been poured on it the fourth time, each one ceased 
uttering a sound. 
Then, it is said, “You begin to put on your skirts,” he told the 
women. Then the women went out excited at each other. 
Then, it is said, ‘This is where you have been biting them,” those 
(women) were told. The women were ashamed. 
Then, it is said, “I shall surely cure them, because I have hired 
them to hold you,” he said to them. Then he licked the places for 
the women. It is said that at once they no longer had sores.” They 
were same as before. 
7 Free translation. 
