The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1894-03-30
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AN INDIAN OUTBREAK
TROUBLE MAY OCCUR on A MINNIE.
sofa RESERVATION.

The Chippewas Are In q Very Savage
Mood and There IL . Feasibility
Of an Outbreak-They Threaten 70
Cause Trouble.
Minneapolis, March 24.-According ID
lnformationr eceived late last night there
is probability of an outbreak among
the Indians on the Mile I.acs reserva.
tton. The Indians are Chippewas, and
up to this time have always been very
peaceable, but they IRE now In q very
savage mood, and 1t may be that they
will take things into their own hands, a.
theyh ave threatened to do, and cause
serious trouble. There IRE no Indian po-
lice on the reservation and no troops
nearer than Fort Smelling, and should
these Chippewas decide on an outbreak
there might be considerable bloodshed
and some two or three months might
elapse beforet hey could be brought to
terms.
The cause of the present trouble IL Of
minor Importance, but the real trouble
dates back some three or four years.
During the Indian outbreak of 1862 these
Indians were among the few red men
who proved faithful to the settlers, and
this was remembered by the government.
When In 1850 treaty was made with
all the Chippewas in the state securing
tot he government the right to all the
lands which the Chippewas up to that
time had held, the lands of the other
Chippewas was secured Internationally,
but to these Indians who had offered
their services to the United States in
1856? the right of occupancy of their
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of continued good behavior. and it is the
apparent failure of the United States to
Keep this clause in the treaty which il
at the bottom of the threatened outbreak
Aftcrt he passing of this net in 1851 The
Indians We're told that they could take
allotments of lands separately and in
severalty ont he Mile I.acs reservation,
and that they might do this Secretary of
the Interior Noble withdrew the land
from entry from settlement. After, how
ever, many of the Indi,lns had taken land
end built houses. Secretary Noble re-
versel his decision and the land was
thrown open to white settlement, and
large number of whites rushed In and
secured possession of large quantities of
the land which had been settled by the
Indians. The Intlians ut this were great
~ cnraged that the faith with them
should liz broken in such manner, but
friends advised them to keep quiet and
seek redress by peaccable mcans. A
short time ago they decided to go to
some sugar-bushes formerly owned by
them. but now on settlers land, and es-
tablish sugar camp. md this they did
with the result that they were driven off
the land, their troughs and some of their
utensils destroyed, and some of their
numbera rrested. This destruction of
their property and arrest of one of them
had UP to the time word was received
from the reservation almost brought OH
an outbreak. Word of the trouble was
first brought to Minneapolis yesterday by
United States Deputy Marshal H. s.
Tellman of Mora, Kanabcc county, and
later a letter was received by Deputy
Marshal Gus H. Bcaulicu confirming the
news us it had been brought by Deputy
Tellman. The letter to Mr.. Beaulieu was
from one of thee hief men of the Chip
pewas, and said that the Indians would
take things into their own hands. Trouble
nav occur Mt any moment