MICHELSON.] WHITE BUFFALO’S LEFT-HOOF SACRED PACK. 215 
When the dancing songs were begun, some thought in their hearts, 
“T wish I would live a long time,” they thought, it is said. Some, 
it is said, thought in their hearts while dancing, “Bless me, White 
Buffalo.” 
It is said that they danced quietly. It is said that no one danced 
violently. Indeed they danced slowly. 
It is said that the leaders of the dance were the ones who were 
thought about the most. There was one woman, and two men who 
blew the flutes; those were the ones who indeed danced quietly. 
It is said that it was fixed so they could not go out. While 
dancing they would only look straight ahead. 
Again, the woman would indeed dance in earnest; also the woman 
who was leading the dance could join in the singing any time. 
And those who were in that sacred pack continued to bless each of 
them, true enough. Indeed some did know that the sacred pack was 
blessing them. And they would dance quietly. They continued to 
tell any one why they were being blessed by it. Indeed it was 
surely so. 
It is said that this was the reason why it was known with certainty 
that the manitous looked after the dancers. That is the reason why 
the people continued to dance quietly. That was the reason, it 
is said, why (anyone) was indeed afraid to dance wickedly, and why 
no (one) would laugh at anyone. They would not even smile at their 
fellow-men. The women, too, did this same thing. Indeed the 
women did not even laugh at each other. 
It is said that was what they did at first. Indeed, they followed 
it very closely and carefully. That was when the people still did 
that which was told to them. 
Again, there are four songs: when they are sung there is a rule that 
they must indeed think of one manitou. They must not think of 
any other thing in their hearts. They must think intensely of the 
one who gaye blessings. They must pray to him for righteous lives. 
They were not to worship him every little while. They were to 
worship him twice in one summer. 
Still, it is said that worship was very difficult when the people were 
still careful. It is said that some even wept when the worshipping- 
songs were used. Then some, it is said, spoke out blindly to the 
manitou when the songs were used. It was any one of them, not 
only those who were giving the gens festival. It was any one of those 
who wanted to live long. Those were the ones, it is said, that did 
that, any one of them, woman or man. 
