Lakota Woman: Siege at Wounded Knee1994

Leonard Crow Dog:
Back in 1889 Short Bull came to see my great-grandfather. He said Wovoka, the Paiute medicine man, told him about a dream on the day the sun died. How it happened went like this: he said that 'a new world is coming. Look into this darkness, look here and you will see a new world coming. And walking in it we will meet our dead relatives, which the white man killed, alive again. They will greet us and they will bring back the buffalo and here is the eagle feather.' So many men traveled, at night they went; some from far, far away. They wandered for hundreds, hundreds of miles across new railroad tracks, under telegraph lines. And then the holy man said 'The first song brings fog and white mist. The second song brings snow and ice cold but the third brings gentle rain. And finally the fourth song brings sunshine and warmth.' So today we're gonna dance until we drop or until we're done.