The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1876-07-27

Spirit They uIc polytheists, and hold
that the stronger gods exterluinate the in
terior The chief god of all they represent
as an OK; the muskrat made the earth
the worms peopled it. and these worms
grew up to be Sioux. When they find the
bones OF the mastodon they think them the
| remains OF OantayAee, or the oX-god lie
yoka, another Sioux god, is Il paradox
who laughs when in grief, lies when
truthfully moved, and goes naked in win
ter and warmly clad in summer. This
character they deduce from their own.
They are dandies, confidence men, tlatter-
ers and haters of property rights. If they
want a pony from n man who has tw o and
cannot beg or steal it, they stab one
They have language like the Assiniboi-
mes and Osages, and complex and tlexi-
bic verb. The only organization they keep
up is hunting regulations as to the division
of an animal run down by several hunters.
Land they va ue only to roam over They
are polygam SIS.
THE FOURTH GREAT WAR.
The Americans have had three great In
dian wars, each raging coincidental with
foreign war. The first was with the AL
gonquin nation, to whom the Chippe-
NetN 'Ilous9, lth ny L OHIllG, IL Illllntul-
ately followed the overthrow Of the French
power in America The second was with
the lroquois, allies Of Great Britain in our
Revolution The third accompanied the
second war with England, when Tecum-
sch reused all the tribes between Lake
Erie and the Gulf The Apache war il
Arizona was consequent OF the South
err plains We are now fighting Indians
y-b han al
while the rebellion was at its height If
there are twenty-five thousand Sioux, OF
all kinds. they are equal to the whole
number OF Indians computed between the
Mississippi and the Atlantic in 1855 by Mr.
Parkman. Pontiac attacked every font
from Niagara and Pittsburg toDetroit and
Mack mac The Sioux aIe now fenced
out from our settlements by line of forts
built along the water-channels of the Mis-
souri,, Yellowstone aud Platte, most Of
which have been erected since the Rebel
lion, as their names indicate: Fort Reno,
Fort Lincoln, Fort Rice, Fort Sully, Fort
Russel, etc. The removal of the Eastern
Sioux TO the plains was promptly follow
ed by running railroads to the Pacific, and
to Sioux City and Bismarck, on the Mis-
souri, river. The former and the latter
roads, designed to 20 through to the Pa
ctic, were obnoxious 10 the Sioux a.
they crossed the hunting repion. the last
subsistence for the Dakota in a state of
nature The end Of the Northern Pacific
Railroad, Bismarck. is the base of SIM
plies for the posts in the land of the Dit
kota, which are communicated with hy
steamers rnnniDtr once a month 'rhpst.
steamers 90 several hundred miles nm thn
current to reach the iunction of the Ynl-
lowstone with the Missouri Both rivers.
are nayirabl. The Yellowstone and if,
branches cf which the Bic Horn and tbe
Rosebud are two. flow norfhcastward and
all its leadiuu branches como n.u,n fin.
s0uth side ~ fhn PnnLv Mountains liz.
there. and emit the SHOWS and ,nrin0s
Iii three h,nirn,l ,,ii,c from, o,,r,t,,,l1.,,
to the snot where thn Stony b,vn H,nopn
tered Sheridan, officers three hundred
miles north OF the Union Pacific three
hundred miles from the Missouri, three
hundred or more from Helena and Bis
marcli OF Fort Lincoln. The Black Hills
are far to the southeast and much nearer
civilization. The Yellowstone Park, Of
which So much has been written, is two
hundred miles to the west. The game of
the continent has been driven to that lofty
region of streams, canons and mountain
ridges, and twenty lesser tribes, seeking
to get subsistence there, are kept in NOR
tai tear OF the pakOtas. Their numbers
radical difference Of race from other In
dlans, skill rs riders and superior size and
courage make them oyerbealine. Htell-
gent, restless. mprjncipled and despotic,
they are made up ot bands who have seen
civilization and others which seldom on
never saw white man-ot outlaws and
barbarians, many sided rs Mohammedan-
ism.
THE INEVITABLE CONFLICT
The struggle with the Sioux was bound
to be \ Harrow view NAV ascribe il to
intru,ions. military impatience the lust
Of gold. broken treaties. or what NOT A
broad view will put it down al 4 matter
ol luuic and predestination The Sioux
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