972 THE GHOST-DANCE RELIGION [eth.ank.M 



be able to see and talk with him by joining the dance, Paul went to 

 Sitting Bull, the leader of the dance, al the next gathering, and asked 

 him to help him to see his dead brother. The result was that lie was 

 hypnotized by Sitting Bull, fell to the ground in a trance, and saw his 

 brother. While talking with him, however, lie suddenly awoke, much 

 to his regret, probably from some one of the dancers having touched 

 against him as he lay upon the ground. According to Ids statement, 

 the words wen- spoken by him in his sleep after coming from the dance 

 and were overheard by some companions who questioned him about it 

 in the morning, when he told his experience and put the words into 

 a song. The "father" here referred to is Sitting Bull, the great apostle 

 of the Arapaho Ghost dance. It was from Paul's statement, intelli- 

 gently told in good English before I had yet seen the dance, that 1 was 

 first led to suspect that hypnotism was the secret of the trances. 



20. A-.VI ANKT11AMI NANINA NISA'NA 



A-ni'iin8'thahi'nani'na nisa'na, 

 A-ni'iine'thahi'naui'na nisa'na. 

 He cha' na'habi'na, 

 He'cha' na'habi mi. 

 Hewa-u'sa liiithi na, 

 Hewa-u'sa hiitbi'na. 



Translation 



My father did not recognize me (at first), 



My father did not recognize me (at first). 



When again lie saw me, 



When again lie saw nie, 



He saiil. "Yon are the offspring of a crow," 



He said, " You are the offspring of a crow." 



This song was composed by Sitting Bull, the Arapaho apostle of f hi' 

 dance, and relates his own experience in the trance, in which he met 

 his father, who had died years before. The expression, "You are the 

 child of a crow," may refer to his own sacred character as an apostle, 

 the crow being regarded as the messenger from the spirit world. 



21. Ni'-ATiir'-A-r' a'iiaka'nii ii ll 



I'yehe' ! ana'nisa'na' — Uhi'yeye'heye' ! 

 I'yehe' ! ana'nisa'na' — Uhi'yeye'heye' ! 

 I'yehe' ! ha'ilawn'haua' — Eye'ae'yuhe'yu ! 

 I'yehe ! ha'clawn'hana' — Eye'ae'yuhe'yu! 

 Ni'athu'-a-u' a'hakii'iiith'il — Ahe'ynhe'yn ! 



Translation 



I'yehe'! my children — I'lii yeue ln-i/,' .' 



I'yehe'! my children — Uhi'yeye'heye' ! 



X'yehe'! we have rendered them desolate — Eye'ae'yuhe'yu! 



I'yehe ' we have rendered them desolate — Eye'ae'yuhe'yu! 



The whites are crazy — Ahe i/uhe yu ' 



