The evening times. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1895-1902, 1900-12-31

officials OF the Bureau Of Indian Affairs
have received information that Two Strike,
the noted Sioux Chief. and feared as one
OF the most relentless Of the red warriors
OF the West. is dying at Pine Ridge Agen-
/ ey- It Is said that the old Indian has
never even made any pretenee OF being
reconstructed and viii die hating the Paw
| nee and the white man with a hatred
which has crown stronger as his years in
creased. These are the hereditary fees Of
! bis tribe, and IN Two Strike has been con-
ceEtrated the hatred which in the past few
years, It Is said, has largely disappeared
from other members OF the tribe. The
ehieftain took part II the last uprising OF
the Sioux against the whites ten years
agr. and when forced with the others 10
give up the unequal combat, he said: '-The
body is given up. but the spirit rever sur
renders There Is only one being on
earth whom Two Strike holds in greater
hatred than the white man, and that is
the Pawnee warrior.
Old Two Strike bears the distinction of
having been the leader in the last battle
which took place on the American CONT
nent between two hostile tribes Of Indians.
For years without number the Pawnees
aad the Sioux have hated each other The
wars that were waged between them we're
wars OF determination. No prisoner. war
rioF, squaw. or pappoose was taken in bat
tie or in tine raids upon sleeping villages
All we're put to the knife or iSe toma-
hawk. In one of Cooper's novels Hard
Heart, the Pawnee ehieftaiD, taunting the
Sioux, says: Since water ran and trees
grew the Sioux has found the Pawnee on
his Rarpath~
The battle in which Two Strike led the
hosts Of the Sioux against the PaBaees
was fought near q little stream known as
The Frenchman' & branch of the Re
publican River, about zee miles south OF
Lexington, Neb. For generations the Paw
nees had held the valley OF the Platte
1t vas the most famous buffalo hunting
ground on the continent, the Sioux from
the north constantly invading the buffalo
plains OF the Pa wnees. This in itself was
enough TO bring about battles but back
OF everything else there was set an he
rsditary EAtred between the two nations
the beginning OF which not even the old
men of the tribes pretended TO know. The
mastsrful Sioux had beaten all the Indian
tribes with which they had come in con-
tact, but they met 4 worthy foe every
time they came in contact with the Pag-
nee. About the middle OF this century
disease raYaged the Pawnee nation 1t
carried OF little children and stalwart
warriors with equal impaTtiality. The
strength c. the tribe was Slapped, bat its
spirit was unbvcken- The Sioux won fire.
qaent Victories over their syeakened enc
mics and forced them TO a course which
they had ever before spuTned. an alliance
with the whites
TIE SIuHx had killed scores OF whites
who had the courage to pierce the vii
derness and establish homes. Soldiers
were sent against them to punish them,
ard the PawDees burning for revenge
went with the white soldiers as scouts.
The Sioux warriors were punished. Two
Strike bidsd his time With the other
chiefs he finally urged his people to make
peace with the whites It was the only
time the words Of peace had ever been
known to come from the chieftain's lips.
Il was not a case OF hating the white M q
less, but the Pawnee more. With the end
of the active campaign the white sa}dieEs
withdrew from their Pawnes allies, WAC
returned 20 their hunting ground and
their villages AdabeI Ellis, who knew
better, perhaps. thar others the fulIness
OF the PawDee humiliation, has told the
story
Two Strike and his Sioux watched for an
opportunity They would rot be content
with a mere BATTLE in which 50 many
warriors should be Killed on but they
were asler a chance fer determination.
They wished to Fost the tribe out from its
place IN the land. Early il August. 1873,
the Pavnees started from their homes On
a great hunting expedition They were
led by Sky Chez. once noted for his prov
ess in the Pawnee tribe
Sioux runners carried the information of
the hunt 10 Two Strike. Then the Sioux
took the warpath. They cut down the
heart of the buffalo country and finally
found the PawBees encamped in compar-
atively narrow canyon The Sioux started
q small herd Of buffalo and, driving them
into the upper end OF the canyon, started
them down toward the camp of the Paw
1aes The Sioux goaded the animals from
the rear but took themselves ous of sight
Just before coming within vision OF the
PaEnees. The buffaloes went headIong
through the canyon and the Pawnee war
riors. hastily mounting, followed them out
on the broad pain, leaving the wenen and
children behind.
Then the Sioux swept forward and be-
gan the work Of determination. They spar
ed neither youth nor age and had almost
completed the slaughter when the Pawnee
braves returned. Tier followed conflict
in which the twaBg Of the bowstring was
heard eftener than the crack Of the rife.
The Pawnees fought as they had always
foUga$. to the death, but the Sioux armed
foF war and not for hunt. and with over
poweEiaS numbers. won the day and OF
the great nation OF the PawHees only
vestige remained. Two Strike with his
own hand, slew Sky Chief. The conflict
other conflict less than two years later,
when the same warriors attacked Custer
and his band and left not one living.