this scene is gonna rule
The young men ceremoniously dance around the Sun Dance Pole. Meanwhile, Sitting Bull sits and prays for guidance. Jumping Bull, his adopted brother, uses an awl and a knife to gouge out bits of flesh from his arms, a sacrificial offering to the Wakan Tanka. In all, he cut 100 pieces of flesh from his arms. As blood flows into the ground, Sitting Bull thinks the Wankan Tanka is sure to be pleased. He begins to dance. He dances and prays for hours until he collapses into a trance.
When he comes to, Sitting Bull describes what he has seen: blue-coated soldiers, thick as grasshoppers in the prairie grass, falling upside-down into the Sioux camp. Their hats are falling off. Below them, a small number of Sioux are also upside down. A voice warns, “These soldiers won’t listen. They have no ears. They are to die, but you must not take their spoils.”
His vision, explains Sitting Bull, means that there is to be a great Sioux victory over the American soldiers. While a few warriors may die, all of the soldiers will be killed. But, he warns, his people shouldn’t take any of their possessions. Sitting Bull’s prophecy comes true two weeks later when Custer’s 7th Cavalry attacks his village by the Greasy Grass River, a river also known as the Little Bighorn.
