MICHELSON. ] ORIGIN OF THE WHITE BUFFALO DANCE. 905 
Then, it is said, they went away. They arrived where they lived 
early in the evening. 
Then, it is said, the next day, “Now we may go around and see 
those whose relatives we had been,”’ he said to the people. 
They started out, all going around ina body to see them. Some of 
them, it is said, were still lying there, as if they had been asleep, was 
how they lay. Yonder, it is said, at some spot, they saw a child 
unconcernedly sucking its mother. She was dead, and yet, it is said, 
that baby itself, who could crawl and sit up very well, was one that 
did not become sick. (The baby), unconcernedly, did not even look 
at them as it was suckling mightily. It was sitting there with its 
back toward them when they looked at it. 
Then, “Now, let our chief take it up,’ he said. Then, it is said, 
the latter took it up. He and his brother-in-law took it along. 
(The baby) was skinny, and had made the breasts of its mother 
filthy by its mouth. It had made the wickiup dusty and the corpses 
lay there with dusty faces. And that baby had made its finger- 
prints on the dust where had been sitting around. 
Then, it is said, they again departed. They went around to look 
at them. They were lying around as if asleep, it is said. At some 
spot they likewise saw a young girl who was sick there. Then, it is 
said, they took her away. They carried her in a blanket. Then the 
same fellow, “You will place her in the center of my home. [I shall 
have my daughters clear the things away properly,” he said to them. 
Then, it is said, she was taken over there. 
They themselves departed. Yonder, it is said, at some place, 
there was a fire burning unconcernedly. It was blazing as if it had 
just been kindled. Those, it is said, who were there, all were warm. 
“What, pray, is the matter with them?” the people said among 
themselves. 
Then, it is said, that man took a billet burning with fire at one 
end and set it down in a lonely far off spot. “I shall know to-morrow 
how this is,’’ so he said to them. Then he held a gens festival for a 
short time; and presumably made them well. Truly that young girl 
became well. That baby also was better. Then, it is said, the next 
day he told the people: ‘This is what I shall hire you to do care- 
fully: you are to seek a round stone which is green, a good size one. 
I hire you all,” he said to them. 
Then they sought it. An old woman found a stone just like that. 
Then they burned it right away. It heated up red-hot very quickly. 
And they made a sweat wickiup very rapidly. After they had 
made it, they put new earth in it. 
Then, it is said, those dead bodies were taken in there, and water 
was poured on the stone. 
