Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1890-11-22
SHORT BULLS SERMON.
Recent Discourse Of the Pretended
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A Recent Discourse Of the Pretended
Prophet OF the Indian Messiah.
General Miles has received from Rosebud
Indian agency, South Dakota, a copy of the
sermon of Short Bull, the so-called prophet Of
the Messiah, delivered by him at Red Leaf
camp.
the thing in running 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 shorter
Therefore you must not be afraid of anything.
Some Of my relatives have no ears, so will
have them blown away. Now there will be q
true tree sprout up, and then all the members
OF your religion and the tribe must gather to-
gether. That will be the place where we will
see our relatives. 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 will start the wind
to blow
I'VE are the ones who will then see our
fathers. mothers and everybody-we, the tribe
OF Indians and the ones who are living the
sacred life. God our Father himself has told and
commanded and shown me to do these things
Our Father In heaven has placed a 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. there Is a
holy arrow lying at tho NORTH which repre-
scnts the Cheyenne tribe; third. at the rising
of the sun there lies hail. representing the
Arapahoo tribe, and fourth, there lies a pipe
and nice feather at the south, which repre-
sents the Crow tribe.
My Father has shown me these things,
therefore We must continue the dance There
ton to them: continue the dance. If the SOL
diers surround you four deep three of you upon
whom have put holy shirts will sing a song
which have taught you aud some of them will
drop dead. Then the rest viii start to 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 what
you desire for them,
Now you mus: know this that all the SOL
diers ane that race will be dead. There will
be only zoo 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 sproutinS. Then we will go among
our dead relatives. You must not take any
earthly things with you. Their women and
men must dsrobe themselves. 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 Father in heaven.
he will see that they do no harm. Whatever
white men tell you do not listen to them. My
relations, this is all. l will now raise my hand
you through me-"
A WOMAN SEES THE GHOST DANCE.
Mrs. James A. Finley, wife of the post trader
at Pine Ridge agency, is visiting in Kansas
City. She thus describes the ghos. dance:
"One ghost dance that saw was participated
IL by 4oO Indians. In preparing for the dance
they cut the tallest tree that they can find, and
having dragged it &c a level piece of prairie,
set 1t up III the ground. Under this tree four
OF the head men stand. The others form in a
circle and begin to go around and around the
tree. They begin the dance on Friday after
noon. !. is kept up Saturday and Sunday
until shutdown. During all this time they do
not eat or drink.
SERIES OF wHIRLs.
'They keep going round in one direction I'M
til they become SO dizzy tina. they can scarcely
stand then turn and so IN the other direction
and keep it up until they swoon from ex-
haus,ion. This is what they strive to do, for
while they arc in swoon they think they see
and talk with the new Christ. When they re-
gain consciousness they tell their experiences
to the four wise men under the tree. All their
tales end with the same story about the two
mountains that are TO belch forth mud and bury
the white man aud the return of good old In
dian times. They lose all of their senses in the
dance. They think they are animals. Some
get down On all tours and bob about like butfa-
loes. When they cannot lose their senses from
exhaustion they butt their heads together
beat them upon the ground and do any
thing to become inseusible. so that they may
be ushered into the presence Of the new
Christ
SUNDAY NIGHT REvEL-
cat the end OF the dance they have grand
feast, the revel lasting all Sunday night.
They kill several steers and eat them raw,
drink and gorge themselves to make up for
their fast AT last Fridays dance one of the
braves was to go INTO a trance and remain in
this condition four days. At the close of this
period he was to come to life as a buffalo-he
would still have the form Of a man, but he
would be Il buffalo. They were then to kill
the buffalo, and every Indian who did not eat
piece OF him would become dog. The man
who was to turn into a buffalo was perfectly
willing. and l suppose they have killed and
eaten him by this time.
IF the government just lets them alone
there will be no need of troops; they will kill
themselves dancing. Seven or eight of them
died as result OF one dance near Wounded
Knee. Every Indian has about four clubs made
out of round stones twisted in rawhide. They
throw these around during the dance, strew
the ground with them and beat their heads
against them"