"But do not harbour a thought that mine is the joy of fear. Logan never felt fear. He will not turn on his heel to save his life. Who is there to mourn for Logan? Not one."

Ouch.

Giving up the ghost.

Depressing!

Was in a bad mood, so I drew.

Hmmm. Survival vs Living. Hmm.

*Nods.*

I could never find photo references of Ghost Shirts. That always angered me.

I vaguely used http://www.sdhistory.org/mus/mus_ghdn.htm as a reference. Birds are also common motifs on the Ghost Shirts, from what little I know.

I wouldn't necessarily say that.

The buffalo didn't come back and people got pushed further onto reservations and into some bad crap, but maybe having the model of the Ghost Dance provided some inspiration to people in the 1970s and even now. Maybe the Ghost Dancers gave a little more strength to people decades in the future and far from the Dakotas who were dealing with uranium poisoning or the Bennett Freeze or whatever.

"Around the brave Tiger Lily were a dozen of her stoutest warriors, and they suddenly saw the perfidious pirates bearing down upon them. Fell from their eyes then the film through which they had looked at victory. No more would they torture at the stake. For them the happy hunting-grounds was now. They knew it; but as their father's sons they acquitted themselves. Even then they had time to gather in a phalanx [dense formation] that would have been hard to break had they risen quickly, but this they were forbidden to do by the traditions of their race. It is written that the noble savage must never express surprise in the presence of the white. Thus terrible as the sudden appearance of the pirates must have been to them, they remained stationary for a moment, not a muscle moving; as if the foe had come by invitation. Then, indeed, the tradition gallantly upheld, they seized their weapons, and the air was torn with the war-cry; but it was now too late. "

Peter Pan, J.M. Barrie

I forget if I've mentioned it to you before, but have you read 1491? If not, I recommend it.