The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1902-08-14
TO LOSE LAST
CAMPING GROUND
Winnebagos viii Receive MIL
lions for Reservation.
REMNANT OF SIX NATIONS
Government VIII Pay Big Bonus 10 The
Redskins Who viii Soon Be
Dispsssesssd.
REMNANT OF SIX NATIONS

Pender. Neb., Aug. lion the govern
ment reservation a few miles from here
live ll26 Winnebsgo Indians. and this
remnant IL doomed by the act OF congress
putting their lands up for sale.
There were seventy deaths among the
Winnebagoes for the year ending June 30
and but thirteen births. For thirty years
the tribal number has been decreasing
about per cent annually. The tribe has
10000 acres OF land.
The governments plan to give these
lands TO the Indians In fee simple was
May "a permitting the sale by Indians OF
heirship lands. The government holds In
trust the reservation lands, with the un-
years from the time the trust was insti.
tuted the land shall be sub-divided and
each Indian given the parcel to which he
Is entitled This period soon will expire.
WILL HAVE CASH A-PLENTY.
The Winnebago will not be hard up
financially when he leaves his govern
ment home. for he will have about 5000
But that much in hard cash will not
stand long between the ned man and pow
erty. The goyernment will have disa-
members will be turned out to buffet with
the world. and In that contest the Indian
will acquire experience and the white
There Is little doubt as to what tho
Winnebagos will do. They will convert
the land into cash. the cash into whis-
key and the combination OF whiskey and
aborigfne into an uproarious case for the
police court--all In the shortest possible
space OF time.
to the old SIX Nations confederacy Of
New York, the most powerful. the most
civilized, the most progressive family OF
Indians on the oondinent save only the
x~un h.uf htsf1 hA - nr4r nj
Waniering westward after the power
OF the Six Nations was broken, they
Hawk @ 'Uuao %ar broke l1 n o. The winnebasos ns @
were among the most powerful tribes in
the Black Hawk confederacy. No nation
sent more warriors TO fight under the ola
Both Jefferson Davis and Abraham Lin
coin fought In the war. After its con-
ss.Sn shs long, the Tg snst
taken them from reservation to reserva-
ton ever since.
PILGRIMAGE OF THE TRIBE.
First, they were sent across the Mis-
sissippi and domiciled on the Turkey river
reservation In northeast Iowa. The white
man settled thickly about Dubuque and
were removed 20 the Long Prairie res
ervation In Wisconsin, where Fond du
Lao now is. Here they were happy. Game
north Wisconsin streams were cold and
clear and full OF fish The Indian stu
preferred to take his drink from the
But again the white man forced himself
into the happy hunting ground. The In
dams removed westward to the reserva-
: Mankato to- Is "a the e county county seat OF Blue
Earth county. Sioux and Winnebagos
were but few miles apart. On. Aug. Is.
1852, the outbreak occurred, which. con-
rspulsed, led to the death Of eoo, whites:
Two thousand Sioux warriors besieged
Fort Ridsslsy. q few miles srtT from T. y, where are
refugees were looked up In the fort; l50
men, soldiers and civilians. defended the
place. and they saved IT. Thomas F.
City. is the only living officer OF that
force.
For this massacre thirtyzfou leaders Of
Sns soSr nS hung nyovad he in IL TSs
spirit had been broken in the days OF
Black Hawk. But they were Indians and
were hated. though only a few rene
was soon plain tho tribe could not remain
in that section. and again they took up
They were moved far westward this
time TO the Crow Creek agency on the
sunset side OF the Big Muddy. To the
west were the cheerless Bad Lands ana
n far swsy Ssse yss the grHs Sna was osa
menace to the lives OF the broken Win
nebagos. There were feuds and murders.
and the winnebagos always were the
victims.
At last they determined they must go
elsewhere, and In the summer Of 1865
they. built canoes OF the great cotton
them with their squaws and pappooses
and floated down strsam until they found
their friends, the omahas.
The Winnebagos were welcomed and
eettled in the last camping ground OF
their long march. from which they are
soon TO be dispossessed