human
I'd rather go with you. I don't like being left here alone.
gpt
You'll find the ride tiresome and the lodging rough, I fear.
human
I don't care, she retorted firmly,
gpt
I'm going with you.
human
There was nothing war-like about it, he insisted.
gpt
It was a religious appeal. It was a prayer to the Great Spirit to take pity on the red man and bring back the world of the buffalo. They carried no weapons, in fact they carried nothing which the white man had brought to them. They even took the metal fringes off their shirts. They believed that if they gave up all signs of the whites the Great Spirit would turn his face upon them again.
human
Did Sitting Bull take part in this?
gpt
He encouraged the meeting at his camp and gave his cattle to feed the people, but he was never able to dream like the rest. He never really believed in it. He wanted to but he couldn't. He was too deep a thinker. He often talked with me about it.