”Ghost Dance” A Tribute to Sitting Bull

”Ghost Dance”
A Tribute to Sitting Bull

Hand Crafted from Amber, A Custom Blown Glass Eyeball, Modern Day Glass Arrowhead, A Coyote’s Tooth, A Broken Paleo-Arrowhead, with Garnet and Pre-Historic Shark’s Tooth.

In June 1876, the great Hunk papa Sioux medicine man Sitting Bull, then 42 years old, sacrificed 100 pieces of skin, 50 from each arm, to bolster his prayers for a victory over the encroaching whites and their blue coated soldiers. Sitting Bull was a member of the Ghost Dance religion, thus the pieces name. Ghost Dance was a religion began by Wovoka, an Indian prophet that believed all the white men would disappear, the dead Indian’s would return to life and the buffalo would once again roam the plains plentifully. The religion frightened an already trigger happy government and on December 15th 1890 Sitting Bull was arrested by 43 “metal breasts” Indian Police. They raided his cabin and arrested him apparently without problems. However when they were exiting the house Sitting Bull was taunted for not resisting arrest by an old woman. Subsequently he broke free and 14 men lay either dead or dying after the ensuing battle, including a fifteenth, Sitting Bull himself. After his death the Ghost Dance fell into disarray. Most of his followers fled fearing for their lives but were intercepted and surrendered to American Cavalry Troops. Some managed to escape to The Cheyenne River Reservation. The Reservation was immediately surrounded by troops, and led to the massacre at Wounded Knee.