Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1886-01-23
ALLIED INDIANS.
Genera! Uprising in The Northwest
Threatened.
Mrs. POundmaker Whettinq Scalp
ing Knives for Her People.
The Settlers Preparing 70 Leave--
Troops Asked For.

WlNNIPE3, Man, Jan. 19.-Mstters ar now
shaping for ii general Indian uprising In the
Canadian Northwest in the spring, and 10 is
very doubtful 4 any thing the government will
be able {, do will arrest it. The southern In
dian reserves, which lie between the Canadian
Pacific raj way and the int rA ational boundary
line, IN the uelghburhood OF Giechen, contain
abUut 2C,.AO natives, consisting OF BloOds,
BlackieeL and P"gaus. These tribes are III
federal allience, with CrowfOot as their princi-
pal civil chief aud Three-BQlls as their COM
lnanc.ng war chief. The latter IS now in a
position 10 harass the country with hlore than
900 braves. Farther to the north there are
the Crees and Stoneys, who were, with Pound
maker aud BHg Bear as leaders, more or less
mixed no With the Rlel troubles last spring.
They num6er in III about Is, 000 and have
nearly 1000 picked lighting men. Pound
maker, The cree chief, who was the first
10 surrender 10 Gen. Middleton after the
defeat OF Lne Metis st Batoche and
who has been sent 10 prison for three years for
his part In that outbreak, Is IA son-in-law OF
Chief CIo sfoOI, aud that, too, IN more than
ANY ordinary indian sense, for the Blackfoot
ciitl' ) lGNDtllt uAukuJtT IS bI INC UthN Oh TIE
Cree cultfs p~olygamuus household. Pound
maker Is ia the peniGe iiary, but the principal
Mrs. PounomaAer is whettiug IA Thousand
scalping knives for the Crees on the Saskat
chewsn, and sendiug frenzied war messages TO
her biackfeet kinsfulk further 10 the south.
Crowfoot has WELDED To the appeals OF his
daughter, who Is nov looked upon as the
queen o' ife Greece, aud SEEING the oppoituni-
" ID ayeIRe lhe ~rohg1 from which li3 own
people have recently suffered, has summoned
Il couuc III his head men, representing
Bloods, Plesaps aud Blsckteet, and after
mature IrJtocraliUn, Ihree-Balln has
been comm indeo TO have 3,OOV
braves ready for the wgrpath ss
soon as the grass "a sufficiently uncovered for
the ponies. ILis Il rec chief il already astir,
and around mauy - BO1d and Picgau tire, aIG
In hundreds ue smoky ,Bisckteet tepees the
scslplocks taken 10y dead heroes OF their race
are taken down auG waved In the dim freight
20 the ugly strains Of he war-dance songs OF
impatient braves. hor.es and cattle afe
rapidly disappearing, 10 tie dismay OF Cana
dian rAuca m n. These, il is stated, find their
way into me possession Of the more reckless
OF Montana Traders In exchange for rifles aud
cartridges, whose deadly crack viii before
another Juue reachcs Us, -ende every piece OF
tall ,;-sss or ctump of brush AID every ravine
or REL bordcred cooiie things to be avoided as
repositories OF G. rtaln death.
The halt-hreeds will not likely join the hos
tbt tisb AAN1f ttEh siN1Nh tAUs<A w va, AAs
lows at Regina. rbe government has redressed
their wrongs partially, but they have no heart
or coursge left. Tie reheliiOus natives COM
plain chi. Nv OF the tDo-ofkcious presence OF tie
Canadian mtlttis, or nouAted police, whose
number and vigi auce have been doubled since
the late disturbance; Of the intrigues and dis
honesty Of Indian agents and instruct ors OF
the tyranny aud nupksyism OF Lieut.. Col Gov.
UowdnsT, who Is the Indian commissioner,
AMI OF the unlawful encroschnents Of settlers
and renchmeD. The Canadian government IL
taking steps tn nip the prospective outbreak
In the bud, but preparations have already
gone - far that the very acts OF
the government, intended TO avert the
calamity, will prove the immediate Gauss Of
trouble. The more the Canadian authorities
make preparations TO meet the expected emer-
gency the greater the insult 10 the Indiana.
They are determined TO be avenged, and the
coming summer will be one OF hardship and
devastation In the Canadian Northwest. Sett-
iers south Of the Canadian Pacific Iiue are
pretty much al preparing to leave, and to-day
\ delegation from the ranchmen passed
through this city for the federal capita! to urge
or the authorities the necessity Of . regiment
being q. once sent to the Reighborhood OF Cal
gary to put a atop 10 the jnno&ds which Indians
are making upon their horses and cattle. Over
10000 head have been captured aud driven
away.