Arizona weekly enterprise., 1890-11-08
Ills tory Repeats Itself.
Globe silver Belt

Brooklyn, New York, member of the Indian Defense Association, IS at Stand ing Rock Indian Agency, and she and Sitting Bull, and other leading lights of the Sioux, are nursing the craze incident to the expected Indian millennium, the an initiation of the whites aud the supre- macy of the Indians, which is expected to to occur not later than next spring. The Agents report is silent as to whether or not Mrs. Weldon is to be spared by the impending crisis, but it is fair to presume that she as we'll as all the members of the Indian Defense Assoclation, will success fully pass the impending ordeal, become Sioux, wear breechclouts, fructify for a thousand years under the special guid- ance of the Indians Messiah. ''On the ninth instant, upon invitation from Sit ting Bull, an Indian named Kicking Bear, belonging to the Cheyenne River Agency, and the chief medicine man of the Ghost Dance among the Sioux, ar rived at Sitting Bulls camp on Grand river to inaugurate Ghost Dance and to initiate members. A detachment of Indian policemen was sent to arrest and escort him from the reservation, but they returned without executing the order, both of the officers being in daZed con dition and fearing the powers of Kicking Bears medicine. Sitting Bull was very insoleut to the officers. He has since kept up the Ghost Dance.' The agent has now sent for him to talk to him per
 sonally and hopes to check matters"
 In June 1881, Nock-a-del-klenny, a medicine man, of the Arizona Camp Apache Agency, proposed Tn considera- tion of gifts of horses, blankets, and other compensations, that he would bring to life certain chiefs who had died few months previous. The incantation of a medicine man is regarded by Indians as of supernatural power, and, therefore, confident and anxious to see their late relatives and friends again in the flesh, and hear their sonorous war whoop re- sounding among the hills, were most lavish of their gifts. The time specified for the resurrection was when the corn was in tassel Thousands of the deluded reds were present; the dead warriors not appearing according to contract and an explanation being called for, Nock-a-del- klenny was equal to the emergency. He stated that the spirits had appeared to him the previous night and announced that they could not appear ill the flesh until the whites were under the ground, which would be when the corn was ripe, | and in the meantime the medicine man diverted the minds of the anxious ones by frequent repetitions of the wierd ghost dance, until the latter part of August, when, fearing an outbreak, it was deter mined by the authorities to arrest the medicine man-no easy job, as was feared by the number of the detail, under the personal command of Colonel Carr, which consisted of 6 officers, 79 soldiers and 26 Indian scouts. Nock-a del klenny was arrested at his camp on Cibicu creek, thirty miles from Fort Apache. He ex. pressed no desire or intention of attemp- ing an escape, but as the troops were making camp for the night, their scouts and other Indians opened fire on them
 A sharp fight ensued, the medicine man was wounded and for protection endea
 yored to seerete himself among pile oi pack-saddles and was there killed by or, der of Col. Carr. The command suffered loss of II killed and three wounded.
 History is supposed to be correct mar
 ration of events, but is as often wrong il detail as right Hiram Price. the Com
 missioner of Indian Affairs, in his report to $. J. Kirkwood Secretary of the In terior, said the White Mountain Indians were not long in discovering the folly o
 their action, and came into the agency and sub-agency in small parties, where they were required to surrender to the military officers, unOonditlonally, excep
 that they asked and were promised fail trial for their individual crimes. Tht
 senior editor of the Belt has a persona
 knowledge of that surrender, and wa
 present at the first and second interview
 of the five chiefs of the offending band
 with Agent J. O. Tiffany in regard to
 surrender, and was present when the, were counted by Dr. Pangburn and San , Bowman and received by Lieut. Abbott
 who put the tally-list in his pocket, ant when asked if he was not going to plac guard over them, he replied, ''it is no necessary" and as a result of his actior } of the sixty CT more Indians surrendere | not single one was to be seen the nex , morning, but were re-arfested througl l the instrumentality of Agent Tiffany l The arrest at the snb-agency was als
 not made by the military, but by Issu
 Clerk Ezra Hoag, and placed in the GUS : tody of Gen. O. B. Wilcox at Cam
 Thomas The Indians. there were bu
 two, Bonito and George, who were, shor ly after arrest, paroled by that officer an
 allowed to return to the sub-ageney an
 few days thereafter Gen. Wilcox o
 dered their re-arrest and sent a detacl |. meat of troops under command of Go z Riddle te effect it. It was then that tE 2 Chiricahuas, who were camped at the sul l agency, became alarmed and left the r eneampment and effected their escape Il - to Mexico, and who, through the instrl t mentality of troops of Gen. Miles con r mand, were removed to Florida The - are now in Alabama.