rs selected. The other men were
Good Thunder, Flat Iron, Yellow Breast, and Broken Arm, from Pine Ridge.

Without permission from their agents they traveled west into Wyoming,
to talk with the Arapahos and Shoshonis at the Fort Washakie
reservation. Some Cheyenne delegates from the Tongue River reservation
in Montana were there also, seeking information.

The Arapahos and Shoshonis said that the word was true. The Messiah
had come; he did not live among them, but was living west of the
mountains, among the Fish-eaters. A Bannock Indian had brought the
news across to them. They had sent men to see. The men had seen the
Messiah, and had talked with him. They had seen the dances that he had
ordered, which would waken the dead to life and populate the earth
again with Indians.

Porcupine and his Cheyennes, and Kicking Bear and Short Bull and their
Sioux were much impressed. They decided to go on, and see for
themselves. So they did. They got on the train at Rawlins, Wyoming,
and rode all day and branched off by another train, and rode still
farther, and arrived at Fort Hall of Idaho, in the Bannock country.

From here the Bannocks guided them onward, by train and by wagon, until
at last they reached the country of the Fish-eaters, or Pai-Utes, at
Pyramid Lake in western Nevada!

The Pyramid Lake Fish-eaters sent them south, to Walker Lake of the
Pai-Utes. Here they met the Christ, listened to his talk, danced the
sacred dances, and felt that everything was true.

Kicking Bear and Short Bull and their Sioux were absent from the Sioux
reservations all winter. They sent back letters from Wyoming, Utah,
Idaho and Nevada, telling of their progress. In April, of 1890, they
returned.

They reported to the council. They had seen the Messiah. Delegates
from many other tribes had been there, too. The Messiah talked to each
tribe in its own language. He bore the scars of nails, on his wrists.
He looked like an Indian, only lighter in color. He taught them dances
called Ghost Dances, which would bring the spirit people back upon
earth. He fell into a sleep, and went to heaven and saw all the spirit
Indians. The earth was too old; it was to be made new and would stay
green and new, and the Indians who obeyed his teachings and lived good
would never be more than forty years old, themselves. This fall all
the good people were to be made young; and after that they would be
made young every spring. Anyone who h