THE BUFFALO POWER AND THE WILD HORSE DANCE. 357 
the birds would find him, and the people, seeing the birds fly over the hill, 
would come to it and find his body and would know that he was dead. 
When he reached the top of the hill he saw a big lake in a valley and 
things that looked like people standing around the lake. He did not 
lie down, but went down to the lake to wash his mouth. He stooped over 
and drank some water, cleansed his mouth, washed, then sat down by the 
lake and spoke with a loud voice and said: ‘‘This is a good place for 
metodie. You gods who may have control of this place, let me die here.” 
_ He then took off his moccasins, his leggings, his robe, and everything that 
he had on. He spread the robe, put all the other things in a row and 
tied them up, stood up and said: ‘‘You animals who have control of 
this lake, I give you these things, for I am about to die. I have no fur- 
ther use for them,”’ and he threw the bundle into the lake. 
He sat down and he thought he had gone to sleep, for while he was 
Sitting there he saw two clouds of dust coming up from the west. The 
first cloud was made by two wild horses, one a black horse and the 
other a gray. The two horses ran around the lake, one on each side of 
it; and they came to the boy and stopped. Both looked at him; then 
they turned and ran back from whence they had come. The other 
cloud of dust came and there were two buffalo, and they circled around 
the lake to where the boy was sitting, stopped on each side of him and 
looked at him. Then the buffalo returned from whence they had come. 
The boy thought he woke up. He saw the dust again. This time the 
horses were together, and the two buffalo were together, and instead of 
stopping on each side of him, they ran over him, so that he was rolled 
over. The horses and buffalo went back from whence they had come. 
The boy sat up again and saw a big drove of buffalo coming. The 
buffalo ran over him and trampled him, and he thought that he was 
killed. 
Somebody touched the boy, and he sat up. He was in a big lodge 
under the lake. He looked around on the north side, and saw that the 
men of that side were all decorated with paint and feathers and imitated 
Horses. On the south side the people wore the Buffalo tail upon their 
backs, and were Buffalo. The leader of the Buffalo spoke and said: 
*“My son, we know that you are very poor. The people do not like to 
have anything to do with you, for you have been very unlucky in all 
your undertakings, and the people grew to dislike you. We knew this. 
We sent for you. All the men that you see on my side are the Buffalo 
that you saw attack you. All the men that you see on the north side 
are horses that you saw when they attacked you. We had to do this in 
order to bring you into our lodge. We made up our minds to take pity 
