Gregory Smoak

That is very specific, again, to certain groups like the Lakota.

And a lot is made of the ghost shirts.

And that theory I said that the Lakota's perverted or changed the ghost dance to make it militant often hinges on that factor.

And so the ghost shirts were meant to make people invulnerable.

And they're often called bulletproof shirts, right?

And this was the way that this was interpreted at the time was that this is whipping them up into a frenzy, that they believe that they're bulletproof.

Not all people had that kind of tradition.

The idea of a piece of clothing bringing invulnerability was new to the Lakota.

Was it like a hair shirt or something like that?

I mean, what was...

They take different forms.

There are pictures of them online, Smithsonian and other museums.

There are some, some have tufts of hair on them.

Most are painted in various ways with symbols that have been revealed to people.

So yeah, there's a number of examples online that people can see if they search that.

North Dakota Historical Society, the...

I think that native religions in general are adapted.

They're not dogmatic.

They're very important traditions in all native religions.

But if we look at this in the perspective of Western Judeo-Christian religion with written books and dogmas and ceremonies and fundamentalism, it's hard to understand.