MICHELSON.) WHITE BUFFALO’S LEFT-HOOF SACRED PACK, 217 
This is the way one song goes: 
Father, when you speak; 
Father, when you speak; 
Father, when you speak; 
Father, when you speak; 
Father, when you speak; 
Father, when you speak; 
Father, when you speak; 
Father, when you speak; 
Father, when you speak; 
You go after it for him, when you speak; 
When you speak from this earth; 
Father, when you speak; 
Father, when you speak; 
Father, when you speak; 
Father, when you speak; 
Father, when you speak; 
Father, when you speak. ? 
My tail, mine; 
My tail, mine; 
My tail, mine; 
My tail, mine; 
My tail, mine; 
My tail, mine; 
My tail, mine; 
Mine, makes them weep; 
Mine, makes them weep; 
My tail, mine; 
My tail, mine; 
My tail, mine; 
My tail, mine; 
My tail, mine; 
My tail, mine; 
My tail, mine. * 
Here, I sit with them; 
I sit with them; 
I sit with them; 
I sit with them; 
Here, I sit with them; 
Why, I sit with them, I do; 
I sit with them; 
Why, I sit with them, I do, I do; 
I sit with them; 
I sit with them; 
I sit with them; 
When the person was told he was to die,’ 
I sat with them; 
8“My tail” is the White Buffalo’s tail. The inner significance of ‘‘makes them weep” is ‘‘when the 
enemy are killed, their relatives will weep.” It goes without saying that maiyd+iwd’wi is a grammatical 
monstrosity. Observe that lines 5, 12, and 16 correspond, though this is not easily brought out in a 
translation; the lines ‘‘Mine makes them weep,” “‘Mine makes them weep”’ occupy the exact middle of 
the song. 
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