The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1876-08-03
The Sioux Indians.

The Sioux tribe Of Indians are by far
the largest body of the surviving aborig-
ines in North America, Not only are
there over forty thousand of these savage
people in the United States, but across the
line in British America are to be found no
less than twenty five thousand more, max
ing in all something like sixty five or sew
enty thousand souls. As a tribe, the Sioux Z
are noted above all existing Indian bands
of any size for their warlike inclinations,
their skill and their cunning. A few of
the minor tribes of American Indians,
such as the Utes, and others along the
Rocky Mountain Range, are quite as
bloody -natured, but being comparatively
insignificant as bands, are not to be ranked
with the Sioux for general ugliness and
dangerous strength.
The Sioux Indians formerly ranged
driven with much difficulty to the
Western reservations some twenty-five
years ago. Since their settlement upon
their vast lands in Wyoming and Dakota,
they have been constant source of ex-
pcnse and complaint, it being their weak
ness to never tire of making demands
upon the Government or weary in robbing
and killing the Indians of other tribes in
that locality, which also are cared for by
the Government. In this way they have
done more to keep the Indian question
constantly agitated than all the other In
dian nations of the country combined.
While few leading chiefs of the Sioux,
such as Spotted Tail and Young Man
Afraid. OF. His Horses, have been inclined
to be friendly and keep peace with the
whites and reds, an influential number of
such chiefs as Sitting Bull, Black Moon
and Crazy Horse have steadfastly pursued
hostile course. With these last the
young warriors of the tribe have generally
been allied, making up just the element
that has precipitated upon the country its
present Indian war. With these bad
chiefs at their head, some 10000 young
Sioux started out in the spring to go
beyond the limits Of their reservation, with
the sole intention of robbing smaller
tribes and killing and robbing white men
and Government soldiers.
If the reports he true that the three hos
tile chiefs named above were killed in that
bloody encounter with Clusters command,
then is retribution cheated of
its food. If these be dead, there
will be little or no more fight
ing, for Indian braves are totally at sea
when their chiefs are gone, and almost in
variably return TO their reservations and
sue for a cessation of war, until some other
of their number, by superior bravado and
bloody accomplishments, inspires them to
follow him into other troubles.
1t is a notable fact in connection with
these savage Sioux Indians, that their
squaws are more bloodthirsty and brutal,
if possible, than the males, and there can
be no doubt that a greater portion of the
mutilation inflicted upon the dead of
Clusters command was the work of these
beastly and vulture-like red females. But,
male or female, the Sioux Indians are GER
tainly too untamable and tiendish to de-
serve place upon the earth's surface,
though the sentiment of humanity in the
American citizens breast will probably
not only grant them a place to live, but
feed and clothe them for century to
come, or until the last descendant OF the
present 10000 shall have fallen into his
grave as a victim of his own innate vices.
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