The Penn's Grove record., 1886-02-27
AN INDIAN ALLIANCE.
Many Tribes oCthe Northwestern Saw
ages Have United for the Purpose
of General Uprising.

ages Have United for the Purpose
ola General Uprising.
Matters are 10Y shaping for a gem
eral 1"'ian uprising in the Canadian
\, in the spring, and 1t IS very
don { anything the government
Will So. s.0le to do will arrest it. The
southern indian reserves, which lie be-
tween the Canadian Pacific railway
and the international boundary line, in
the neighborhood of Glechen, contain
about 10000 natives, consisting Of
BI0ods, Blackfeet and Piegans. These
tribes are in federal alliance, with
Crowfoot as their principal civil chief
and .Three-bulls as their commanding
war-chlef. The latter is now in a posi-
ton to harass the country with more
than $3.50 braves. Further to the
north there are the Crees and Stoneys,
who were, with Poundmaker and Big
Bear as leaders, more or less mixed up
with the Riel troubles last spring.
They number in all about $1,000 and
have nearly 1000 picked fighting men.
Poundmaker, the Cree chief, who was
the first to surrender to Gen. Middle
ton after the defeat of the Metis at
Batoche, AID who has been sent to pri-
son for three years for his part in that
outbreak, is ason-in-laW Of Chief Crow
/ f0Uto, III aid that too, in more than in
any ordinary Indian sense, for the
BIackfoot chiefs favorite daughter is
at the head of the Cree chiefs polygam-
Gus household. Poundmaker is in the
penitentiary, but the principal Mrs.
Poundmaker is whettIng a thousand
scalping knives for the Crees on the
Saskatchewan, and sending frenzied
war messages to her Blackfeet kinsfolk
further to the south. Crowfoot has
yielded to the appeals of his daughter,
who is now looked upon as the queen
of the Crees, and selling the opportun-
ity to avenge the wrongs from which
his own people have recently suffered,
has summoned a council of his head
men, representing Bloods, Piegans and
Blackfeet and, after mature delibera-
ton. Three-bulls has been commanded
to have 5000 braves ready for the war
path as o as the grass is sufficiently
uncovered for the ponies. This fierce
war chief is already astir, and around
many a Blood end Piegan fire, and IN
hundreds of smoky Blackfeet tepees
the scalplocks taken ny dead heroes of
their race are taken down and waved
III the dim frelic't TO the ugly strains
of the w~aT~dancs songs of impatient
braves. Horses and cattle are rapidly
disappearing, 10 the dismay of Cana
dian ranchmen. These, it is stated,
find their way into the possession of
/ the more reckless Of Montana traders
in exchange for rifles and cartridges,
whose deadly crack will, before another
! June reaches us, render every piece OF
tall grass or clump Of brush and every
ravine or reed-bordered coolie things to
be avoided as repositories of certain
death. Among the bad results of the
Nets rebellion is the contempt
with which all the Indians regard
| Canadian troops. The latter we're Woe
fully beaten, with the odds in their
favor, both at Frog Lake and Fish
Greek, and the so-caIled battle of
Batoche was rather a successful retreat
of the rebels than a well-earned victory
on the part ofthe militia. Col. Otter's
dash upon Poundmaker's band with
his celebrated Queens Own regiment
was a disorderly rout, and his almost
miraculous escape was achieved only
by a march of over forty miles in a
single night, through swamps and
muskegs. Neither Poundmaker nor
Big Bear was defeated. Both surren-
dered only after firing of harasslng and
evading the volunteers. The half
breeds will not likely Join the hostile
Indians. They lost their leader on the
gaIlows at Regina. The government
has redressed their wrongs partially,
but they have no heart or courage left.
The rebelllous natives complain chiefly
of the too OliciOus presence Of Cana
dian militia, or mounted police, whose
number and vigilance have been doubt
ed since the late disturbance ; OF the
intrlgues and dishonesty Of Indian
agents and instructors Of the tyranny
and lunkeyism of Lieut.. Col. Gov
Dowdney, who Is the Indian commits
sioner. and of the unlawful encroach'
ments of settlers and ranchmen. The
Canadian government is taking steps
to nip the prospective outbreak IN the
bud, but preparations have already gone
so far that the very acts of the govern
ment, intended to avert the calamity,
will prove the immediate cause of trou'
bic. The more the Canadian authori'
ties make preparations to meet the ex'
pected emergency the greater the in
suit to the Indians. They are determ'
ined to be avenged, and the coming
summer Will be one of hardship and
devastation in the Canadian North
west. Settlers south of the Canadian
Pacific line are pretty much all prepar'
ing TO serve, and to-day a delegation
from the ranchmen passed through this
city for the federal capital to urge OF
the authorities the necessity Of a regl
ment being at once sent to the neigh
borhood of Calgary to put a stop to The
inroads which Indians are making
upon their horses and cattle.