00:00As the 1880s drew to a close,
00:03almost all of the western tribes
00:04shared a crushing sense
00:06of hopelessness.
00:08And once again, the white men's government
00:10wanted to reduce their reservations
00:12even further.
00:16So,
00:16they were ripe for a messiah.
00:19We're talking about murder
00:21here, Doctor Two, to be exact.
00:23And there's nothing supernatural
00:24about that.
00:27And that messiah
00:29was
00:30Wavoka.
00:32Who started preaching a strange
00:34mixture of Christianity
00:36and the old Indian beliefs, called
00:38the Ghost Dance Religion.
00:41Among other claims,
00:42Wavoka swore that he had actually
00:44visited God in heaven.
00:47You've been under a terrific
00:49strain. Out in the
00:51desert at night, your mind can
00:52turn somersaults, and whatever you see
00:55or hear can seem very
00:57real.
00:59I'm telling you, he was there.
01:00O que é isso?
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