Omaha daily bee., 1888-07-12

animal, chasing the beast for at least u
mile from the Enclosure before shooting.
After tormenting, torturing and aggra-
waiting the brute until its endurance
was beyond forbearance, the Indian
would dispatch his victim with his
Colts or Winchester. The process goes
on the same throughout the entire ex-
ercises, and it is no small sight to wit
ness three or four hundred OF these
slaughteriug heroes upon the plain at
one time, and the discharge Of firearms
sounds like the combat OF fighting
armies. immediately after the first
beef leaves the inclosure the squaws
start for the slaughter field with their
wagons, in order to be ready to skin
and dress the animal. The "big brave
Injun" has done his noble work in the
affair and with the trophy of the ami
mails smoking tongue for his prize. he
sits upon his pony while his squaws pre-
pare the carcass for that process by
which it becomes jerked beef. Every
where and always the squaws do the
work and the men are idle. The hide
Gus and toothless crone is never too old
to work, never old enough to
rest. The life of her and all
her daughters is that of
slave, a slave born and predestined, to
whom rest and liberty shall never come.
She is beaten. abused, revilcd, driven
like any other beast Of burden. She is
bought and sold: wife, mother and pack
animal joined in one hideous and hope
less whole-a squaw.
There is but little more beauty to be
found among Indian "maidens than
there is among gorillas. Those false
poems which descant upon the charms of
dusky love and the romance of wilder
ness affection are vague imaginations of
dime novel mind. Poetic license is a
wapton and wayward thing, and has
been made to caper nimbly to strange
tunes. but the man who invented those
| charming but phenomiually false Indian
| ideals, and first crowned the universal
| squaw with the roses of love, ought to
| see the woman once, and he never would
again etiuse on her bewitching
charms"
Every particle of the animal is saved
and utilized, even the blood is left in
| the flesh, and the intcstincs are carried
| to the lodge and eaten as one of their
| most dainty dishes. A grotesque cate
! cory Of names of these people becomes
| amusing to one on first visit, but
| after awhile its peculiaritios will
not be thought of. Indians are
| named in honor of some peculiar circum-
stance, or characterize, in their early life,
| append few which are among the
| prominent of the Sioux tribe, all being
| heads of consultations, Crazy Bear, No
| Flesh, Broken Arm, Little-One-Toe,
Horny Bull. Run-After.Cat, Feather.
Man, Young Bat. etc. There are l56 of
these consultations, consisting of thirty
people each. one-half as many others
who get their rations from the block,
making II total of 1920 people at this
agency. The government issues to these
$50 beeves every twenty-eight days and and
1870 every fourteen days, making $50
beeves month. After a pleasant visit
with Colonel Gallagher, the courteous
and accommodating agent, and his chief
clerk, Harry Clark, and looking through h
the government school building under
the guidance of Prof. w. L. Manning;
also friendly call on Captain George
Sword, the chief of the Indian police,
in his commodious and elegant apart
ments, we express ourselves as fully re-
paid for the time spent in visiting the
Pine Ridge Indian agency. K. E.