he is a 19th generation keeper of the sacred white buffalo pipe for the lakota anyones, given to hispeople by the woman in black els division him has a ceremony regarding environmental and other sacred concerns at standing rock, the united nations and elsewhere. i had met him several years earlier at a wild horse preservation event in las vegas. at the conclusion everyone in attendance join him in a prayer circle in a ballroom, at the south point hotel, hotels and their ballrooms with garish chandeliers seeing the location of many such events because they month the central gathering places of our time. what what's symbolism of the dancing horse outside sitting bull's cabin, i asked him in our phone conversation. he was responding to the sound of the gunfire as the story goes? there was a long silence and i hesitated to break it. after a few moments this what he said. it was the horse taking the bullets, to told me. that's what they did. not everyone believes that the horse danced but i do. and that's how i dime -- i came to write this book, and perhaps after reading it you'll have yo