Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1899-10-07
SERVED AS A GUIDE FOR

Lower Brule Is. D. Spec Minneapolis
Journal: One the west side OF the Mis-
souri, river, about half way between
Pierre and Chamberlain, lives Felic!en
Fallas, a Frenchman, married to an IN
dian woman. His home is modest IN the
extreme, but better than his neighbors,
the Lower Brule Sioux, with whom ne has
lived for A years. $50
Born in France, brought to st. Louis
| when a lad of Is by his father, young
| Fallas at q years of age hired out to the
| American Fur company, and IN 1851 was
among the Sioux at or near RI. George.
on the Missouri, now an abandoned post
near his present home.
From 1857 to 1860 FallaS was in the en-
! ploy of Major Hamilton in the fur trade
at TT. Clark, N. D. This post was estab-
lished for the convenience and protection
of the American Fur company, winch mad
subposts or stations among the Rses'
Mandans, eros Ventres and Sioux. The
following entry appears in Major Ham,
ilton's diary. which is now in the pos
session of Mr.. Fallas.
eft. Primeau, JUNE IA. 1860.-This is
my last enry in this journal, as all my
books will be packed in the morning. l
have now been at this post three years.
and eighteen years in the Indian count
nv, and shall now leave it for good, as l
have had enough of the - red rascals.
I shall look for the steamboat day after
tomorrow, in which I shall bid adleu to
the Rec villages.
!, JAMES v. HAMILTON"
About this time Fallas also left the Rec
country and returned to the Sioux near
Yankton. This same year he married his
J present wife. a anktoh SIOUX, WIZ
whom he has lived happily ever since. HI
has u living children, ali of whom are
doing well. They are among the most pro-
gressive mixed bloods on the reservation
Besides the Fallas children among tht
Brules, there are others on the Ree anC
<s.o. yn,t~o tinpc DC Eol1QS IVA
married to an Indian woman when a
trader at Aricarra post. now North Da.
lkota. Mrs. Custer in her book Boots
and Saddle refers to the guide. las the
most married man. Falias. Wnlie some
thing of a LOthario among the Indians
has also done a good service in advising
the indian to remain peaceful. and as a
government scout under General Gus
ter. He has taught the / Indian. in 6
measure. to cultivate CORY. to ifprOvidt
hay for the winter. and to dive more like
the white man. To do this, he himself ha:
lived as the Indian, and been one of then
in all things excepting in hostile move
ments against the whites. ) -
SANTEE COULD NOT CATCH HIM.
In the Santee-Sioux outbreak in Min
@nesota in 1882 the Sioux living yfurthe'
west and beyond the Missouri were peace
full. at least they took no part in thu
massacre. Fallas had several narrow es
lcapes from struggling Santee war. parties
At one time, when returning from Fit
Thompson to Yankton, he suddenly cam
upon two Santee warriors. painted an
armed with bow and arrows. Snappin.
his pistol at them, he ran his horse dow
one of the steep gumbo hills of the Mis-
souri, with arrows and Indians too clos
for comfort. He succeeded in eludin;
the party. but lost his horse in the chase
Al another time a faithful dog warned
him that Indians We're near, and again h
ESCAPED falling into the lands Of tn
Santees, from whom he could have ex
pected nothing but death. as in the San
tee Indian wal squaw men. and oftel
mixed blOOds. did not escape the crue
scalping knife. 700 whites, mostly womeI
land children having been massacreed.
While a trader among the Rees, Falla
had an experience which he still remem
bers, a n tells as something of a joke Of
himself. Big Head. a Cheyenne Chief, ha'
his lodge pitched near the subtrading pos
during the winter of 1858. Two of tn
chiefs children had died. and Indian su
iperstition and the devil medicine man ad
vised that some white man was responsi
BILE for the children's death. Thu dea'
= Were not buried, though a month elapsed
and Big Head became very sad and mo