794 THE GHOST-DANCE RELIGION [eth.ann.14 



with each other. We talked these matters over for ten days. The agent then sent 

 for me and some of the Bannocks and Shoshones, and asked me "where I was going, 

 I old him I was just traveling to meet other Indians and see other countries; that 

 my people were at peace with the whites, and I thought I could travel anywhere I 

 wished. He asked me why I did not have a pass. I said hecause my agent would 

 not give me one. lie said he was glad to see me anyhow, and that the whites and 

 Indians were all friends. Then he asked me where I wanted a pass to. I told him 



1 wanted to go further and some Bannocks and Shoshones wanted to go along. He 

 gave passes — five of them — to the chiefs of the three parties. We took the railroad 

 to a little town near by, and then took a narrow-gauge road. We went on this, riding 

 all night at a very fast rate of speed, and came to a town on a big lake [Ogden or 

 Salt Lake City]. We stayed there one day, taking the cars at night, rode all night, 

 and the next morning about 9 oclock saw a settlement of Indians. We traveled 

 south, going on a narrow-gauge road. We got off at this Indian town. The Indians 

 here were different from any Indians I ever saw. The women and men were dressed 

 in white people's clothes, the women having their hair banged. These Indians had 

 their faces painted white with black spots. We stayed with these people all day. 

 We took the same road at night and kept on. We traveled all night, and about day- 

 light we saw a lot of houses, and they told us there were a lot more Indians there; 

 so we got off, and there is where we saw Indians living in huts of grass [tulc f]. We 

 stopped here and got something to eat. There were whites living near by. We got 

 on the cars again at night, and during the night we got off among some Indians, 

 who were fish-eaters [Paiute], We stayed among the Fish-eaters till morning, and 

 then got into a wagon with the son of the chief of the Fish-eaters, and we arrived 

 about noon at an agency on a big river. There was also a big lake near the agency. 



The agent asked us where we were from and said we were a long ways from home, 

 and that he would write to our agent and let him know we were all right. From 

 this agency we went back to the station, anil they told us there were some more 

 Indians to the south. One of the chiefs of the Fish-eaters then furnished us with 

 four wagons. We traveled all day, and then came to another railroad. We left 

 our wagons here anil took the railroad, the Fish-eaters telling us there were some 

 more Indians along the railroad who wanted to see us. We took this railroad about 



2 oclock and about sun down got to another agency, where there were more Fish- 

 eaters. [From diagrams drawn and explanations given of them in addition to the 

 foregoing, there seems to be no doubt that the lakes visited are Pyramid and Walker 

 lakes, western Nevada, and the agencies those of the same name.] 



They told us they had heard from the Shoshone agency that the people in this 

 country were all bad people, but that they were good people there. All the Indians 

 from the Bannock agency down to where I finally stopped danced this dance freler- 

 ring to the late religious dances at the Cheyenne agency], the whites often dancing it 

 themselves. [It will be recollected that he traveled constantly through the Mormon 

 country.] I knew nothing about this dance before going. I happened to run across 

 it, that is all. I will tell you about it. [Here all the Indian auditors removed 

 their hats in token that the talk to follow was to be on a religious subject.] I want 

 you all to listen to this, so that there will be no mistake. There is no harm in what 

 1 am to say to anyone. I heard this where I met my friends in Nevada. It is a 

 wonder you people never heard this before. In the dance we had there [Nevada] the 

 whites and Indians danced together. I met there a great many kinds of people, but 

 they all seemed to know all about this religion. The people there seemed all to be 

 good. I never saw any drinking or fighting or had conduct among them. They 

 treated me well on the cars, without pay. They gave me food without charge, and I 

 found that tins was a habit among them toward their neighbors. I thought it strange 

 that the people there should have been so good, so different from those here. 



What I am going to say is the truth. The two men sitting near me were with me, 

 and will bear witness that I speak the truth. 1 and my people have been living in 

 ignorance until I went and found out the truth. All the whites and Indians are 

 brothers. I was told there. I never knew this before. 



