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Black Elk Speaks:<\/em> “That evening before it happened, I went in to Pine<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ridge and heard these things, and while I was there, sol-<\/p>\n\n\n\n

diers started for where the Big Foots were. These made<\/p>\n\n\n\n

about five hundred soldiers that were there next morning. When<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I saw them starting I felt that something terrible was going to<\/p>\n\n\n\n

happen. That night I could hardly sleep at all. I walked around <\/p>\n\n\n\n

most of the night.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the morning I went out after my horses, and while I was<\/p>\n\n\n\n

out I heard shooting off toward the east, and I knew from<\/p>\n\n\n\n

the sound that it must be wagon-guns[cannon] going off. The<\/p>\n\n\n\n

sounds went right through my body, and I felt that something<\/p>\n\n\n\n

terrible would happen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

When I reached camp with the horses, a man rode up to me<\/p>\n\n\n\n

and said: “Hey-hey-hey! The people that are coming are fired<\/p>\n\n\n\n

on! I know it!”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I saddled up my buckskin and put on my sacred shirt. It was<\/p>\n\n\n\n

one I had made to be worn by no one but myself. It had a spotted<\/p>\n\n\n\n

eagle outstretched on the back of it, and the daybreak star was<\/p>\n\n\n\n

on the left shoulder, because when facing south that shoulder<\/p>\n\n\n\n

is toward the east. Across the breast, from the left shoulder to<\/p>\n\n\n\n

the right hip, was the flaming rainbow, and there was another<\/p>\n\n\n\n

rainbow around the neck, like a necklace, with a star at the bot-<\/p>\n\n\n\n

tom. At each shoulder, elbow,and wrist was an eagle feather;<\/p>\n\n\n\n

and over the whole shirt were red streaks of lightning. You will<\/p>\n\n\n\n

see that this was from my great vision, and you will know how<\/p>\n\n\n\n

it protected me that day.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I painted my face all red, and in my hair I put one eagle<\/p>\n\n\n\n

feather for the One Above.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It did not take me long to get ready, for I could still hear the<\/p>\n\n\n\n

shooting over there.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I started out alone on the old road that ran across the hills<\/p>\n\n\n\n

to Wounded Knee. I had no gun. I carried only the sacred bow<\/p>\n\n\n\n

of the west that I had seen in my great vision. I had gone only a<\/p>\n\n\n\n

little way when a band of young men came galloping after me.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The first two that came up were Loves War and Iron Wasichu.I<\/p>\n\n\n\n

asked what they were going to do, and they said they were just<\/p>\n\n\n\n

going to see where the shooting was. Then others were coming <\/p>\n\n\n\n

up, and some older men.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We rode fast, and there were about twenty of us now. The<\/p>\n\n\n\n

shooting was getting louder. A horseback from over there came<\/p>\n\n\n\n

galloping very fast toward us, and he said:”Hey-hey-hey! They<\/p>\n\n\n\n

have murdered him!” Then he whipped his horse and rode away<\/p>\n\n\n\n

faster toward Pine Ridge.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In a little while we had come to the top of the ridge where,<\/p>\n\n\n\n

looking to the east, you can see for the first time the monument<\/p>\n\n\n\n

and the burying ground on the little hill where the church is.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

That is where the terrible thing started.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Excerpted from “Black Elk Speaks”, as told through John G. Neihardt, author. Publisher: University of Nebraska Press, Lincoln and London.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Islander.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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