The Ghost-dance religion and the Sioux outbreak of 1890

by James Mooney

FOURTEENTH ANNUAL REPORT
OF THE
BUREAU OF ETHNOLOGY
TO THE
SECRETARY OF THE SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION

1892–93

BY

J. W. POWELL
DIRECTOR

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PART 2

WASHINGTON
GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE
1896

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THE GHOST-DANCE RELIGION
AND THE
SIOUX OUTBREAK OF 1890

BY

JAMES MOONEY

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Say, shall not I at last attain

Some height, from whence the Past is clear,

In whose immortal atmosphere

I shall behold my dead again?

Bayard Taylor.

For the fires grow cold and the dances fail,

And the songs in their echoes die;

And what have we left but the graves beneath,

And, above, the waiting sky?

The Song of the Ancient People.

My Father, have pity on me!

I have nothing to eat,

I am dying of thirst—

Everything is gone!

Arapaho Ghost Song.