THE ORIGIN OF THE BUFFALO CEREMONY. 369 
ribs, tongue, and heart as they had been told to do. Howling-Fox 
stayed at the lodge with the chiefs and braves to receive the offerings. 
The people were happy. They had plenty to eat. It was known 
through the village that Howling-Fox brought the Buffalo. The people 
gave him many presents and many ponies. After the first killing, the 
people killed four more times; then the Buffalo passed the camp and 
went east. Howling-Fox told the chief that they had plenty of dried 
meat and that the promise of the Buffalo had been fulfilled and that 
they must move east to their permanent village. Howling-Fox did not 
go east with his people, but stayed behind in the old camp. Buffalo- 
Woman visited him during the nights and taught him Buffalo dance 
songs and gave him the Buffalo ceremony. Howling-Fox went back to 
his people and started the Buffalo dance. Inthe dance he always wore, 
upon his left arm, a ring that he had taken from a Buffalo cow. He sent 
_for the man who had owned the ring, and gave him presents of Buffalo 
robes and one pony. Then he taught him the Buffalo ceremony and 
the songs. Howling-Fox soon died, and the people said it was because 
he had given out all of his secrets to the other man. 
94, THE BUFFALO MEDICINE DANCE.’ 
The people were upon a buffalo hunt and had made their camp in a 
valley. The holy lodge that held the sacred bundle was in the center 
of the village. While they had their camp in this valley a buffalo bull 
attacked them. The people pursued the buffalo, but he ran right into 
the holy tipi where the bundle was hanging up, and tore the tipi all to 
pieces. The people sent for a man who understood the spirit of the 
buffalo, and when he saw what the buffalo had done he told the people 
that something was going to happen. In the afternoon dark clouds 
came in the west and it began to rain and storm. The wind blew so 
hard that it picked up one woman and blew her away. After the storm 
was over a drove of Buffalo came near the village and one of the Buffalo 
spoke and said: ‘‘People, you shall have your things again. You shall 
have the buffalo skull, the drums, and gourds.”’ So the things which 
were carried away from the sacred lodge were brought back and placed 
in the lodge again. Then the drove of Buffalo went away. 
The Buffalo who had spoken to the people came again and invited 
some of the Buffalo medicine-men to go with him into a country where 
1Told by White-Sun, Kitkehahki. This story is told to show that when buffalo 
attack a village it is an omen of bad luck; especially is it believed that a storm 
will follow. 
