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Office of Indian Affairs, San Francisco, July 11, 18641
You would make war upon the whites [taibo’s]. I ask you to pause and reflect. The white men are like the stars over your heads. You have wrongs, great wrongs, that rise up like the mountains before you; but can you, from the mountain tops reach and blot out those stars … . What hope is there for the Pah-Ute? From where is to come your guns, your powder, your lead, your dried meat to live upon, and hay to feed your ponies while you carry on this war. Your enemies have all of these things, more than they can use. They will come like the sand in a whirlwind and drive you from your homes.
Numaga (Young Winnemucca), Pyramid Lake Paiute, Indian Leader and Speaker, April 18602
This time he [Wovoka, Mason Valley, Nevada, Paiute and Initiator of Ghost Dance movement in 1887] hadn’t left his body to follow the shamans’ path under the earth or into the shadowy realm of animistic powers and magic; instead, he visited a monotheistic Heaven and spoke to a very Methodist-sounding God with strong Mormon leanings.