Those who know him well will say, "Yes, but you have given to your eastern Indian songs and ceremonies which belong to the western tribes, and which are of different epochs." To the latter I reply: "You know that the western Indians sang and prayed in this way.

How do you know that the eastern ones did not?
We have no records, except those by critics, savagely hostile, and contemptuous of all religious observances but their own.

The Ghost Dance Song belonged to a much more recent time, no doubt, but it was purely Indian, and it is generally admitted that the races of continental North America were of one stock, and had no fundamentally different customs or modes of thought." The Sunrise Song was given me by Frederick R.Burton, author of "American Primitive Music." It is still in use among the Ojibwa.
The songs of the Wabanaki may be read in C.G.

Leland's "Kuloskap the Master." The Ghost Dance Song was furnished by Alice C.Fletcher, whose "Indian Song and Story" will prove a revelation to those who wish to follow further.
ERNEST THOMPSON SETON..