FOURTEENTH ANNUAL REPORT OF THE BUREAU OF ETHNOLOGY TO THE SECRETARY OF THE SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION
1892–93
BY
J. W. POWELL DIRECTOR
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
Page
Introduction 653
The narrative 657
Chapter I—Paradise lost 657
II—The Delaware prophet and Pontiac 662
III—Tenskwatawa the Shawano prophet 670
IV—Tecumtha and Tippecanoe 681
V—Känakûk and minor prophets 692
Känakûk 692
Pa′thĕskĕ 700
Tä′vibo 701
Nakai′-doklĭ′ni 704
The Potawatomi prophet 705
Cheez-tah-paezh the Sword-bearer 706
VI—The Smohalla religion of the Columbia region 708
Smohalla 708
Joseph and the Nez Percé war 711
VII—Smohalla and his doctrine 716
VIII—The Shakers of Puget sound 746
IX—Wovoka the messiah 764
X—The doctrine of the Ghost dance 777