![]() ![]() ![]() The Sioux, wearing shirts called ghost shirts, believed they would be protected from the soldiers bullets. Half Eyes says the dance which the spectators were then witnessing had been going on all night. The ghost dance is chiefly significant because it was a central feature among the Sioux just prior to the massacre of hundreds of Sioux at Wounded Knee, S.Dak., in 1890. The white figures bobbing between pained and naked warriors and the shrill yelping noise of the squaws as they tottered in grim endeavor to outdo the bucks, made a picture in the early morning which has not yet been painted or accurately described. "The spectacle was as ghastly as it could be: it showed the Sioux to be insanely religious. ![]() 'I see my father, I see my mother, I see my brother, I see my sister," was Half Eye's translation of the chant, as the squaw and warrior moved laboriously about the tree. Round and round the dancers went, with their eyes closed and their heads bent toward the ground. It was initiated in 1870 by the spiritual vision of a. They did not raise their feet as high as they do in the sun dance, most of the time it looked as though their ragged moccasins did not leave the ground, and the only idea of dancing the spectators could gain from the motion of the fanatics was the weary bending of the knees. The Ghost Dance was a religious movement among the Native peoples of the Plains and Rocky Mountains. "The dancers held on another's hands and moved slowly around the tree. ![]()
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