Daily Yellowstone journal., 1890-05-20
THE INDIANS SAVIOR.
He IS locateo in the Mountains
and Has Worked up a
Big Boom.
Next September He Will Tip
the World Over and Shake
Of the White Men.
THE INDIAN MESSIAH.

He !. Billed for an Appearance Next Sep.
tember.
GeD'l Brisbin gives the Helena In
dependent n lengthy interview in the
sunday issue on the subj CT Of the In
dan Messiah, whose coming IN S.p-
tember next is creating 80 much *"
ciiement among the Indians of the
entire west. The following extracts
from the interview will no doubt he OF
interest to our resder-:
"Ye-. the Indians b, lieve in See
ond Christ, aod that b. Is already
upon earth. From what ] have
Learned { th false prophet | believe
b- ~ n Mormon tldef, aud though hIs
hiding place has not been discovered. |
believe he IL somewhere In Utah,
probably Oh the B.a river. 80
wrought up are rh- Indians over II
that they retUs" to work and have
taken their chll it-n from srLobl md
Ia f'r the effuii> OF truors 10 compel
th-T t. Resume their u.usl vocatIons
have prrved u.eles-. The first new.
reached the Che. ennes in March, when
tw" BaDnack Indians arrived oIi
Tongue river. They cam- ost-nsibly
Ia visit the CIows, who have their
agency nj Fl. Custer, IN; really cauie
To teach the --coni coming oi Christ.
and 10 warn the Crows that he was
already upon earth, and approaching
frntp fh. ...pth ,p.nat.tn. rl.
BsnDacks left after having aroused
the curiO.iiy of the Crows, and then
went TO the Northern Cheyennes and
preached the new doctrine. The
Chryennes were not firm in their be-
lief, but to make sure. they held q
council and delegated four If their
tribe-ihree young aud one old nIan-
To 90 and seek the truth. They start
ed out, were gore thirty days. having
remained seven days with the false
pro hst.
The new Messiah is evidently q man
# Intelligence. and from bis general
fp4cripiion. must be ysrH. Ole. The
| Btnnsck apoptip~ ftIiIy upfGlded to be
Cheypnnes what they saw and heard
snd were told 10 preach. The belief
among the Indians IL this: That next
September this world will end; the
new Christ says that the whites will
be placed on one side oi the world aud
the Indisps on the other. Then he
will turn the world over, the whites
will he down and the Indians on too,
and great flood will set In, which
will rxtinguish sll the whites from
the face IF the earth. Then he will
return 10 the Indians the buffalo and
the deer and transform the new world
into what II Was $50 years ago. The
Indians will get sll their game back
and will not have 10 Use firearms to
kill u, nothing more then bow ard
warns them to throw away their
guns, for which they will have no
further use, aud not t ) fight with the
whites. as they will not be long for
this earth.
III have leaned that delegations
f,Om %, arly oil the western lnoisn
tribes have called up,n the false
prophet. who strictly adm0pishes
them to keep secret from the whites
his instructions to them. The old
fellow must have great power over
them, for they obey his orders to The
letter, because they are told VI they do
not believe In him they will be de-
stroypd with the whites. The promise
of q return of former hunting days, TO
work. but CONTINUED happiness, has .
strong influence upon the Indians,
who are y very superstttious race, and
the false prophet knows their weak
points. Notwithstanding the secrecy
with which he binds the Indians, we
have been enable d to asce' tain u sood
many facts about this impOstor. 1t 10
evident that he has niUtiiafsd himself
and II q spIrituslist. shortly after the
arrival Of the Banhsck apostles, re-
ceived q message from the agent at
Tongue river sgency saying that the
Indians were rising, leaving their
farms, gathering In camps, where they
were holding dances. and acting as II
they were preparing for war. All the
schools had been broken up. the chill
dren taken to camps and planting was
suspended"