Below is a short piece of news about the Sioux repeatedly going on the war path.
This in an excerpt from an 1878 edition of the American Missionary which also carried news on native American Indians. As you
can see from the news below, the status of Indians was still an issue in those days. The value of these bits and pieces of information
today is that they show us undigested data about the daily life of people in those days, unlike the history books compiled with the agenda
of their authors. These are still news of the original events, not retrospective views.
The Sioux on the War Path
The Ponca Indians' Complaint
Sitting Bull Inciting Unrest
Indians Becoming American Citizens
Difficulties in Dealing with Indians
|
Notwithstanding the successful termination of the Nez Perces war, in which General Howard so happily vindicated both his valor and his courtesy, there is no settled and general peace among the Indian tribes. Some 1,700 Sioux broke away while being removed from the Red Cloud agency to their new agency on the Missouri River, and are now on the war path. They have since been committing depredations in the immediate vicinity of Deadwood, Dakota. They number about two hundred lodges, a number not sufficient in itself to render operations against them on a large scale necessary, but probably quite large enough to keep our small available force (exhausted as it is by the long campaign against the Nez Perces) fully occupied should the Indians open hostilities. Although a general Indian war is not considered to be imminent, such an event is not impossible as the outcome of the present troubles, and may be deemed almost probable.
The most serious feature of the situation lies in the probability that the many roving bands who live in the country north and west of the Black Hills, and who are thought to be in sympathy with Sitting Bull, and to have experienced more or less injustice at the hands of the whites, will join with the small band which is creating the present alarm at Deadwood, and thus bring about an outbreak which it would be quite beyond the power of our present reduced military establishment to suppress. The opinion is expressed by officers at the War Department, that the removal of troops from the Black Hills region to the Texas border, may result in the protection of people in the latter section, at the expense of the lives of those who are exposed to much greater danger.
|
