St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-11-22
height so as to effectually suppress an
Indian uprising in the spring time.
SHORT BULL SAYS DANCE.
The Prophet of the Messiah at
Rosebud breaches n Sermon

CHICAGO, Nov, 2i.-This evening
Gen. Miles was i'll receipt of telegram
dated Rosebud Indian Agency, South
cskOta. in which the officer making the
the official report from the agency has
the following interesting communica-
ton, which he made to his superior Of
ficer. He saws: In advance of my
formal report | send you the sermon of
Short Bull. the so-called prophet of the
Messiah. at this agency. delivered by
him at Red Leaf camp:
My friends and relatives. / will soon
start the thing i'll rupniGg order. | have
told you that this would come to pass in
two seasons, but since the whites are
interfering so much | will advance the
time from what my Father above told
me. The time will be short. There
fore you must not be afraid of anything.
Some of my relatives have no ears. so
will have them blown away. Now there
will be true tree sprnut up, and then
all the members of our religion and the
tribe must gather together. That will
he the place where we will see our rela-
tlves. But before this time we must
dance the balance of the moon, at the
end of which time the earth will shiver
very hard. Whenever this thing occurs
l Will start the wind to blow. We
are the ones who will then see our
fathers, mothers and everybody. We
are the tribe of Indians and the ones
who are living the sacred life. Our
father himself has told and commanded
and shown me to do these things. Our
father in heaven has placed mark at
each point of the four winds. First,
clay pipe which lies at the setting of
the sun and represents the Sioux tribe;
second, holy arrow lying at the north.
which represents the Cheyenne tribe;
third. at the rising of the sun there lies
hail, representing the Arapahoe tribe,
and further lies pipe and nice feather
at the south which represents the Crow
tribe. My father has shown me these
things, therefore we must continue the
dance. There may soldiers surround
you. but pay no attention to them; con-
tinue the dance. Ii the soldiers sur
round you four deep, three of you upon
whom have put holy shirts will sing
song which l have taught you
and some of them will drop dead.
Then the rest will start tn run, but their
horses will sink into The earth. The
riders Will jump from their horses, but
they will sink into the earth, and you
can do as you desire with them. Now
you must know this, that all the SOL
diers and that race will be dead. There
will be only 5000 of them left living on
the earth. My friends and relatives.
this is straight and true. Now we must
gather at Pass creek when the tree is
sprouting. Then we will go among our
dead relatives. You must not take any
earthly things with you. Then the men
and the women must disr0be them
selves. My Father above has told us to
do this, and we must do as He says.
You must not be afraid of anything.
The guns are the only things that we
are afraid of, but they belong to our
do no harm. Whatever white men may
tell you, do net listen to them. NV re-
lati0ns, this is all. will now raise my
hand up to my Father and close what
lie has said to you through me-"