The St. Johns herald., 1890-11-27
Sioux Indians Stark Mad.


 eral Miles is liable at any moment to move a regiment or two of Uni ted States regulars against the Sioux is creating a deal of excite ment among the red men, but their belief in the coming of the Messiah is in no way lessened thereby
 The Indians have evidently, in many instances, gone stark mad, The most exciting among the many trials which have occurred hefe dur ing the fortnight was that of the al- i legged Virgin Mary. When the In- dian court officers called her name there came out from the murmur- ing crowd in the large room, Waltz tawin (Scarlet Woman), the wife of Jiksoga, and a member of Wa toksis band of Sioux, although it Is said she is not a native, but came ! from a band of Indians across the Manitoba line.
 Fearlessness was'the leading ele- ment of her attitude, as she stood gracefully before the erailing, behind which sat the agent and his inter- preter, looking indifferently at her, John Grass and the two other h. dians who composed the court.
 "Who are you and what is your name?" were the first questions ask ed her.
 Drawing himself up to her full stature of nearly six feet she told her name. Then, bending slightly forward, with her hand pointed up- ward, she said in Q low tone, with intense earnestness
 II am the mother of Christ, who IS now upon this cath making pre- parations for rebuilding it. The earth is to belong solely to his chosen people, and this continent is to be extended much farther west, taking in a part of the great sunset water. The eastern part of the continent will be abandoned, but in the western part great herds of buffalo will wander as in the days of long ago, and simultan- eously with the disappearance of the whites from the earth will come the resurrection of the Indians who now sleep, and forever norc they will wander over the earth with no one to question their rights to kill the buffalo no one to say Do this or will put you in the guard house"
 With gesture to attract the par ticular attention of Major McLaugh- lin, the agent here, she drew an imaginary line upon the floor and stepped over it, saying;
 "In those days there will be no reservation, no messenger from the Great Father to say to the Indians, Come back here and stay on your reservation.
 Stepping back over the imaginary line on the floor, with {, shamefaced expression to illustrate her peoples dislike for the regulations that for bid them from wandering around the earth in accordance with their romantic disposition, she continued to cxpatiate upon the rosy-tinted dawning of the Indians millennium morning Questions calculated to locate the whereabouts of "The whose mother she claims to be, were warily answered, and she refused to tell anything about the orgies of the ghost dance, beyond the fact that she had been pro- ( claimed by the members of the or Ter to be "the Virgin Mary" | Pending an interview with the ! Yoman's husband and considera- ion by the Court as to the best methods to be adopted in her case, \ she was sent to the guardhouse, to ! which she walked with the air of a 5 martyr, with good memory and '' without the theoretical forgiveness.
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