Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1891-02-07

Elaine Goodalo has boon among tho
Sioux Indians seven ycars., teaching
them and trying 90 lead them into civil.
lied ways. except ne to their drcss. She
thinks the red race Il far ahead " tho
white ono In tho matter Of comfortable
and convenient dress. Elaine knows tho
language OF tho Indians intimately. She
has lived among them familiariy. aud
knows what the Indians themselves are
unable to tell about their troubles.
She writes u letter 20 The New York
World setting forth tho influences that
have been at worl; among tho savages
since hcradvent among them. We have
had disgrace aud suffering enough over
this last Indian outbreak Once for all.
the wiscsi, most upright and unseliish
persons in tho country ought TO b. re.
lectcd 10 deal with tho Indians. those
who will 80 10 them with the desire TO
help them. TO DO honest with them. and
not to mako money "a them. II the
savagcs arc easily cheated, all the more
will decent white man abstain from
cheating them. Tho commercial and
political way u dealing with Indians is
bearing fruit now. and bitter fruit
Miss Goodalc says
The pfcs'nt crisis In Indian history l. certainly
unexpected 10 most ~ %. We who have brcn
ultimately acquainted with the Nlpix for the past
few year. have fclt q eau at leas' say Tor m,a-if
that have lrll srungiy two conflicting cirrunts
~ iesllnE Thtfe has tnCn a Efpnlng aaafaftsa..-
for the highest Tooi that our cisiiziilon haa 10
ohcr-a desire fur tho best eiusltlon. a. the par.
at teaching % Christianity indians have leafnssi
Ia ru,ognite tho power " a eli sacrificing love
when u apparel 10 them ln the Isrsan % a
woman OF man of the hitherto hazel and aus.
rectei white racs, and such men and women,
usually ni'slonaries. have gained their rrf.-ci
and loyalty but thufr has i-cn powerful un.
daFcufrcnt ~ d.sruntout, sadness and bitterness
and tasie nf DESPAIR.
Civilization has not been 10 tho pconi. what Il
proiniied 10 L. THE FOOL u hrunFht was usually
Nafid and ifnmaisrial The misery Wa rr,al ami
pw-'nt, while the noble aud devoted white man
vas rarity, The low inindsi aausiai. gr,c.iy,
overriding aud utterly selfish white man va too
frequently placed over them a. q teacher. farmer
~ agcnt Most uuwilinrIy they rclinqulshcd a
third ~ thcir domain and saw mono ~ the Iron'.
lrsi hcncdtl Labor Va robh,d u ia rewnrl rs
an unfcieniins climate aui an ungencrous soil
Hunger was m slug and sickness universal, and
death became familiar guest IN almost uyuy
huuss.
Especially was tho mortality amoug little chi.
dtru sii and fearful an1 u ID nntlceahl' that Ia
the songs and ceremonies 81 tho ghost dance
much mrntiua j. made Of this universal hsrrasc
ment Then. by continual hroodlng ufrf tho ga.
frec, healthy animal Me- soFt Of revival ~ ull
customa, dominating; In the paaslouate, pathetic
sgory oi tho new Messiah, a savior, has cn.ns 10
the lndian.
Hos aciuai warfare wa brought about was an
other question, aud ono upon which there must
have been much dlnerrncr u ollnlun ny Der.
sonal conviction i that there WIS Do deiIlrrate
intention 10 destroy tho whites; that The luilans
arr standing In tho hiiiede 81 I'll defense lfht.
Ing only ~ they conceive themselves to be
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