Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1890-10-31
At Standing Rock and Grand River
Agencies, by Claiming to be
Il Prophet.
He Tells Them That He Went to
Heaven and Got Pointers
About the Future.
The Whites Are to be DESTROYED by
a Great Earth Wave and the
Indians Saved
To Inherit the Earth Alone,


STANDING Rock AGENCY, Oct. o.
Especial. Kicking Horse, the great
Sioux prophet, has been visiting the In
dians under Major McLaughlin's charge
and with the Sitting Bull contingent
down on Grand river, has succeeded in
stirring up considerable excitement. The
prophet claims to have visited heaven
and returns to earth to tell his fellow
Indians of the good things in store for
them. The Sioux Indians at Standing
Rock were supposed to be two intelli-
gent to take any stock in the nonsense
preached by Kicking Horse, but so much
excitement was caused and such rest
less, crazy spirit engendered that Major
Mclaughlin found it necessary to order
the prophet off the reservation and to
put several Indians in the guard house
for continuing the seances. Sitting
Bull. however, is always ready to go into
something mysterious. He delights in
preaching deviltry and "big medicine"
racket among the ignorant and super
stitious. This is where Sitting Bulls
strength has been In the past.
Until broken up by Major McLaugh-
lin last week, the Indians we're dancing
and singing, making both night and day
hideous with their carousals. Theproph-
ct claims to have gone to heaven through
hole in the clouds, where he saw and
talked with God and his wife and son
Christ He is cunning enough to mix
enough christian doctrine with his pro-
phetic teaching to make it seem real.
God told him that his children, the Indi-
ans, had suffered long enough and the
time had arrived when they would again
occupy the earth, SO long held by the
whites, but they must not kill or molest
the whites or God would punish them.
He said He Himself would wipe out the
white race from the face of the earth.
God told him the earth was getting full
of holes and many places we're rotten.
Re would gradually send wave of earth
twenty feet or more over the country; it
would move slowly. The Indians must
keep dancing so as to keep IN top and
when the wave had passed all the whites
would be buried underneath and the In
dians would be on top. All the dead In
dians would be restored to life again and
all the buffalo and horses and game and
all their old hunting grounds would be
as they we're hundreds of years ago, and
the Indians would for all time in the flu.
ture own and occupy this earth. All In
dians who would not listen to the words
of the prophet and keep dancing would
be turned into fishes and occupy the riv-
ers and streams. He said, while talking
with God, the devil came to them. He
describes the devil as being very tall,
with immense knee joints and monster
mouth and long teeth He was covered
all over with coarse hair. He asked God
for half of his people, meaning the Indi-
ans. God told him no. He asked God
again and God said no. The third
time he asked, God replied: "You can
have none of my chosen Indian children,
but you can have all the whites" Christ
told him he knew everything he was
tn1uklnS aDOuG, ana ne was mucn AFRAID
of Christ because he read his thoughts.
Christ told him not to be afraid, as they
were brothers, but to go and tell his peo-
pie to be prepared. A Mrs. Weldon,
white woman from the east, who has
more money than brains, is living with
Sitting Bull at present and the Indians
report her to be converted to his doc
trine. She furnishes the grub pile for
the dance-as with all their faith they
cannot dance without something to eat.
The Indians are fast becoming converts
it is SO easy for them to, be led back to
their old superstitions. Some really
bright Indians say you. cannot shake
hands with this prophet for when you
touch his hand it burns like fire. What
the outcome Of it will be cannot be told
at this time, but they are greatly ex-
cited now. Although Kicking Horse has