Ok while the first interpratation of this song is very broad, knowing of what the ghost dance's message and history was it helps with the song.
The Ghost dance, at least the last one which was the most widespread, spread all across the west, it said that a messaih had come to the whites and they had killed him. He was going to come again to his red children and an apocolypic event would come and wipe the white man off the continent and restore the earth to the way it was before they came. the dead ancestors would also rise and walk again. To a demoralized people this was a hope for salvation. As I recall crazy horse never participated in a ghost dance and died before he knew of it. Wounded Knee occured because of a ghost dance the Souix were ordered to stop dancing and refused so the us army came out and massacred them. The ghost dance like so many other parts of the native religons of this country were made illiegal whiuch is strange since in the bill of rights everyone is entitled to practice their own religon. There is almost no page of European-NativeAmerican history where the europeans are not responsible for the blood shed.
Ok while the first interpratation of this song is very broad, knowing of what the ghost dance's message and history was it helps with the song. The Ghost dance, at least the last one which was the most widespread, spread all across the west, it said that a messaih had come to the whites and they had killed him. He was going to come again to his red children and an apocolypic event would come and wipe the white man off the continent and restore the earth to the way it was before they came. the dead ancestors would also rise and walk again. To a demoralized people this was a hope for salvation. As I recall crazy horse never participated in a ghost dance and died before he knew of it. Wounded Knee occured because of a ghost dance the Souix were ordered to stop dancing and refused so the us army came out and massacred them. The ghost dance like so many other parts of the native religons of this country were made illiegal whiuch is strange since in the bill of rights everyone is entitled to practice their own religon. There is almost no page of European-NativeAmerican history where the europeans are not responsible for the blood shed.