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Ghost Dance. Of course his stories were taken from yours although he gave them in his own language. As I understood, he has harmonized the songs to please himself- That was the only original point of his entertainment. He said he had tried to introduce Indian songs as College Cornell songs and that [[underlined]] he had composed [[/underlined]] an [[underlined]] Overture based on these themes [[/underlined]], which he hoped would soon be heard in Boston. He is evidently a trained musician both technically, mechanically and historically. The idea that he dwellt most upon was this: