St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1886-01-13
AN INDIAN ALLIANCE
Many Tribes of the Northwestern savares
Have United for the Purpose Of q
General Uprising.
Mrs. POundmaker Whetting a Thousand
scalping Knives for the Orees on the
Saskatchewan.
The Wrongs Done the Indians Last
Summer To be Avenged IN the
Next Six Months.
settlers Rapidly Preparing TO Leave--
The Authorities to be Asked
for Troops.
An Indian Uprising Predicted.

An Indian Uprising Predicted.
Special 20 the Globe.
WINNIPEG, Man, Jan. 12.-Matters ara
now shaping for general Indian uprising
In the Canadian Northwest in the spring.
and it is very doubtful if anything the gov
eminent will be able to do will arrest il.
The southern Indian reserves, which lie be-
tween the Canadian Pacific railway and the
international boundary line, in the neigh
OOrhood OF Glechen, contain about 20. 600
natives, consisting of BlOOdS. Blackfeet and
Fiesans. These tribes are in federal alli-
anee, with Crowfoot as their principal civil
chief and Three-bulls as their commanding
war chief. The latter is now in position
to harasS the country with more than 5000
Draw ;. Further to the north there are the
CreeS and StOneyS, who We're with Pound
maker and Big Bear as leaders. more or
less mixed up with the Riel troubles last
spring. They ndmber in all about $4,000
and have nearly 1000 picked fighting men.
POun0maker, the Cree chief. who was the
irSt to surrender 10 Gen. Middleton after
the defeat of the MetiS at Ba o-.c and
who has been sent TO prison FOR three years
Tor his part IN that outbreak, is a Sun-in-
lsw OF Chief CrOwfOOt and that, too, i'm
more than in any ordinary Indian sense.
for the BlacktOot chiefs favoTite daughter
Is ut the head of the
CREE CHIEFS POLYGANoUS HOUSEHOLD.
Poundmaker is in the penitentiary, but
the principal Mrs. POundmaker is whetting
thousand scalping knives for the Crees on
the Saskatchewan, and sending frenzed
war messages 10 her Blackteet kinsfolk fur
Their to the south. CrowfOot has yielded to
the appeals OF his daughter, who is now
looked upon as the queen of the CreeS, and
Sezing the opportunity To avenge the
wrongs from which his own people have re-
Gently suffered, has summoned a council of
his head men, representing BloOds, Piegans
and Blackfeet, and, after mature delibera-
ton, Threebuls has been commanded to
have 5000 braves ready for the warpath as
soon as the grass is sufficiently uncovered
for the ponies. This fierce war chief is
already astir, and around many Blood
and piegan fire. and in hundreds of smoky
Blackteet tepees the ScalplOckS taken by
dead heroes of their race are taken down
and waved in the dim freight to the ugly
strains of the war-dance songs of impatient
/ braves. Horses and cattle are rapidly dis
/ appearing, To the diSmay of Canadian ranch
men. These, 10 is stated, lind their way
| into the possession of the more reckless OF
| Montana traders in exchange for rifles and
cartridges, whose deadly crack will. befoas
another June reaches us, render every pioea
OF tall grass or clump of brush and every
ravine or reed-bOrdered cOoIie
THINGS To BE AVOIDED
as repositories of certain DEATH Among
| the bad results of the Metis rebellion is the
contempt with which all the Indians regard
Canadian troops. The latter were wofully
beaten, with the odds in their favor, both
at Frog Lake and Fish Greek. and the So
called battle of BatOche was rather a sue
| cesSful retreat of the rebels than we'll
earned victory on the paIt of the militia.
| Col. Offers dash upon POundmaker'S band
with his celebrated Queens Own regiment
was a dis0rderly rout, and his almost mirac.
ulOus escape was achieved only by a march
of over forty miles in single night,
through swamps and muskegs. Neither
POundmaker nor Big Bear was defeated.
Both surrendered only after firing of harass-
ing and evading the volunteers. The half
breeds will not likely join the hostile In
dams. They lost their leader on the gal
lows at Regina. The government has re-
| dressed their wrongs partially. but they
have no heart or courage left. The rebeli-
| ious natives complain chiefly of the too
OtiiciouS presence of Canadian militia, or
mounted police. whose number and vigil
lance have been doubled since the late dis
turbance; of the
INTBfGUES AND DISHONESTY
of Indian agents and instructors; of the
| tyranny and flunkeyiSm of Lieut.. Col. Gov.
DOwdney, who is the Indian commissioner,
and of the unlawful encrOachments of set
tiers and ranchmen. The Canadian gov
eminent is taking steps TO nip the prospec-
tive outbreak i'm the bud, but preparations
have already gone so far that the very acts
| of the government, intended TO avert tho
calamity, will prove the immediate cause Of
| trouble. The more the Canadian author
tiles make preparations 10 meet the ex-
pected emergency the greater the insult to
the Indians. They are determined 20 be-
avenged. and the coming summer will be
| one of hardship and devastation in the
| Canadian Northwest Settlers south of the
Canadian Pacific line are pretty much all
preparing to leave, and to-day a delegation
from the ranchmen passed through this city
for the federal capital to urge on the
authorities the necessity of regimehS he
ing at once sent to the neighborhoOd of Cal
gary to put stop to the inrOads which TN
dans are making upon their horses and
cattle. Over 10000 head have been cap
tured and driven away.