Black Elk's Vision

Adherance maintained that God's Son knew that Indian people would treat him in a manner he deserved and not kill him as the whites had done many years earlier. Wounded Knee's survivor Joseph Blackhair even said that Ghost Dance leader, Chief Bigfoot's people, nearly all belonged to some church. They thought of themselves as a kind of chosen people to whom the Son of God would soon come. And the risen Christ is who Black Elk saw in his vision during the Ghost Dance. He was not Washington, and he was not Indian. All earthly beings and growing things belong to me. Your father, the great spirit, has said this, and you too must say this. His trance