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THE GHOST-DANCE RELIGION 



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Another little girl about 5 years of age was picked up on the battle- 

 field and brought in by the Indian police on the afternoon (if the fight. 

 She was adopted by George Sword, captain of the Indian police, and is 

 now living with him under the name of Jennie Sword, a remarkably 

 pretty little girl, gentle and engaging in her manners (figure 81). 



A little boy of four years, the son of Yellow Bird, the medicineman, 

 was playing on his pony in front of a tipi when the firing began. As 



Fig, 82 — Survivors of Wounded K 



t Zitkalazi (1892). 



he described it some time ago in lisping English: "My father ran and 

 fell down and the blood came out of his mouth [he was shot through 

 the head], and then a soldier put his gun up to my white pony's nose and 

 shot him, and then I ran and a policeman got me.'' As his father was 

 thus killed and his mother was already dead, he was adopted by Mrs 

 Lucy Arnold, who had been a teacher among the Sioux and knew his 



