Omaha daily bee., 1899-08-06

how peaceable they may be, are pushed too
hard by the whites they will rise against
them. That was the case in the rising OF
the Chippewas last summer and should the
conditions which brought about the last
war with the Sioux ever exist again there
would probably be trouble, though there Is
never any doubt Of the outcome.
But the young meG, who have the fight
ing instinct and have never been through
any fights, are hard to convince OF the utter
hopelessness of the struggle. they cannot
realize, unless they have been In carlisle
| college, or some such school for the In
dams, and have been around a great deal
among the whites, that they cannot posi-
bly, win in the end. That is the reason
why Indian outbreaks now occur at long in
tervals. They only happen when a new
generation comes OF a fighting age.
THE determination of the buffalo has
made a marked change in the bearing OF the
Indians. While there were buffaloes in
! plenty they were independent of the gov
eminent and could go out on the warDath
without fear OF being cut off from their
commissariat. I wa among the Indians
when the b~uffaloes we're wiped out and l
noticed the change at once. They know
now that they must come to the Great
Father for their living. 1t has taken the
fight out OF them to a great extent, ana II
has also taken the man out OF them. They
are more worthless, even II they are less
warIike. ] would rather try to make
| something out Of Indians just off the war
path than Indians who had been living for
! years in idleness, fed by the government.
1.-The Navajoes, ] believe, are the next
tribe in strength, numbering IT 900 or $4,000
! persons. should not be surprised II the
| government would some time have trouble
! with them. The Indians are beginning to
| realize themselves the ease with which the
| government can hurry troops to the point OF
| trouble, hemmed in as all the Indians are
by the railroads.
sioux Easily Governed.
81 think it is greatly to the credit of the
| Sioux nation that for the seven years was
an agent among them, sixty miles from
any trooas. We never had any serious
trouble with them. II / had had 1000 or
5000 Of any other nationality living under
the same conditions of idleness and de-
| pendence they would have had me assassi-
mated in a very short time. 1t would ruin
any men to receive what they needed Of
food and clothes without doing a single
! thing. The Sioux don't do anything, be-
cause there is nothing for him to do. None
Of the so-called farm land that is left Of
their original reservation can be farmed
with any success at all. There are a few
little pockets fit for kitchen gardens, but no
farms. 1t is nothing but grazing land. no
rainfall and no streams large enough for ir-
rigating purposes. The Indians know very
we'll that where the Great Spirit set the
little punches of buffalo grass nothing else
will grow. The government sent out reap
ems and haryesters and threshers, one after
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1t all, but they would not believe II.
Lately they have begun to realize that the
Sioux cannot farm where they are.
But even il they were where the condi-
ton were different, 1t would be too much to
expect OF them that they pass at once into
the condition OF farmers from the condition
of sava=es. We say TO the Indian. why
don't you work. and forget that there is
not a single people in the world which has
passed at once from sayagery to civilization.
They have all gone through the nomadic and