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Mr. Royer: [Sees the Lakota doing the Ghost Dance and grabs his pistol] This obscene display will cease immediately!
Wovoka: This prayer. White people pray, go heaven. We go heaven too.
Mr. Royer: You will stop dancing and disperse!
[points pistol at him]
Wovoka: [dancing and singing cease as all watch]
[in Lakota]
Wovoka: We should call him Young Man Afraid of Indians.
[the Lakota begin to laugh]
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Red Lance: [comes back into the house] You let the fire go out.
Voices That Carry: Didn't notice.
Red Lance: What good are all these white man's books if you don't know when you're cold?
Voices That Carry: It's not that cold.
Peter Skagen
Extended Reading
