Gregory Smoak

That is not true.

The bit of evidence that's used there has been really debated whether or not this was an accurate account.

It appeared only one newspaper never reported truly through military channels.

There's debate there.

Overall, this is a message saying this is the way that you can survive.

Yeah.

Well, again, the dance is fairly typical of a round dance.

People shuffle sideways, counterclockwise, hold hands.

They sing.

The difference here is this dance could last two to four days.

That's not unusual for some dances.

Later, the sun dance becomes a center of a pan-Indian religion.

As people dance, as they become exhausted, some people fall, and they essentially pass out.

And during that time, they have visions.

And when they come back, when they regain consciousness, they speak with people, with shamans, with others, and they start to sing the songs that were revealed to them in this dance.

So this is very much a religion that is adaptive at that moment.

The songs that people are singing are changing.

And

It differs from tribe to tribe, but that's kind of the core ceremonial there.

And the idea is that if this is carried out, that you will hasten or bring on this transformation.