Chapter I: Part 2

WASHINGTON
GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE
1896

THE GHOST-DANCE RELIGION
AND THE
SIOUX OUTBREAK OF 1890

BY

JAMES MOONEY

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._

CONTENTS

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Introduction 653

The narrative 657