The Florida star., 1901-10-11
1t THE PAN-ANERICAK.
Representatives OF Many Tribes Who Tenn
porarIIy Inhabit the Midway.


Special Correspondence Of The Florida Star.
BUFFALO. Oct. S.-Forty-two tribes
are represented in the Indian congress
on the Midway at the Pan-Ameriean
exposition. They are the Ogalalla
Sioux. Santee Sioux. Brule Sioux.
Yanktonia Sioux. Lower Brule Sioux.
Sisseton Sioux. Unkapapa Sioux, Tee
ton Sioux. Wahpeton Sioux. Mendewa-
kanton Sioux, Rosebud Sioux. Crows.
Blackfeet, Flat Heads. Arapahoes,
Peigans. Poncas. Sac and Fox. San
Carlos Apaches. Wichitas. Winneba-
gOs. lOwas. Omahas. Otoes. GrOs Ven
tres. Pottawatomles, Mojaye Apaches,
ShoshOnes, Osages. Pawnees, Chippe-
was. Tuscaroras. Onobagas, Oneidas,
Mohawks. Senecas. Cayugas. Ojib-
ways. Comanches, Navajos. Pimas and
Maracopas.
Among them are some OF the great
war chiefs who have in the past forty
years given the United States army its
hardest work. They are now old and
peaceable. though they dream IOngingly
OF the days when they were lords of the
wide plains and forests where now the
ranchers and lumbermen are supreme.
The most notable OF the Indian chiefs
Is Geronimo. the Apache. Geronimo
has been a prisoner OF war for fifteen
years. 1t was his capture that started
General Lawton on the career which
reached its climax at San IsidrO in the
Philippines. where the Indian fighter
died In battle with a Filipino Geron-
imo.
General Crook called Geronimo a
great general; General Miles called
him the tiger OF the human race"
His influence with his people is still SO
great that the government thinks IL
unwise to give him his freedom. al
though he is ninety years old.
Crazy Snake. the Greek. is also n
prisoner OF war. He was the leader OF
the last Indian insurrection. an ins.g
nificant one which occurred only last
spring He refuses To be reconcilPd Ia
the white mans rule. and il was with
much difficulty that the consent OF the
war department 10 his coming 10 Buf
falo was secured.
Red Cloud. the Sioux. is a good In
dian." eighty years old and blind. But
he has a long string OF scalps TO his
belt. IL was he who led the massacre
OF FetIerman and his men In 1866
Chief Shot In the Eye won his name
in the Custer massacre. He asserts
that he was only an innocent bystand-
er until hls7eye was shot out. Then he
II a
clares that he saw General Custer blow
his own brains out when he found that
he was the last white man alive on the
field OF battle.
There are many other Sioux who
have distinguished themselves in the
Indian wars. Some OF them were with
Shot In the Eye at the massacre OF Lit
tie Big Horn. Painted Horse boasts
OF having killed many white men.
whose hearts be cut out and ate Kick
Ing Bear was at the head OF the Sioux
in the campaign Of 1901 against the
troops commanded by General Miles.
OF the women the Princess Nicola Is
first She Is the daughter OF Nochlnka.
medicine chief OF the WinnebagOs and
the wife OF Eagle Eye. She is a full
blooded squaw. raised In a tepee. but
is an expert musician. She reads mu-
sic at sight and plays upon a number
OF Instruments
Winona. the eighteen-year-old daugh-
ter OF Crazy Horse. the fighting Sioux.
is SO proficient with the rifle that her
tribe claims that she has the aid OF the
spirits. She was born In a tepee on
the Big Cheyenne. and has been dead
shot since she was old enough 10 carry
q rife from her fathers wigwam.
II Is only a question or time when the
Indians. as Indians. will disappear from
the face Of the earth. The children are
growing up under the influence Of new
surroundings and are mlngling more