FOURTEENTH ANNUAL REPORT OF THE BUREAU OF ETHNOLOGY TO THE SECRETARY OF THE SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION 1892–93 BY J. W. POWELL DIRECTOR PART 2 [Illustration] 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