Rosebud County news. [volume] (Forsyth, Mont.) 1901-1906, 1902-02-27
AMONG RosEBuD'. CHEYENNE,
Chapter on the "AristOcrats OF the.
Tribe" In Northern Pacitic's
New Publication.


Tribe" in Northern Pacitic's
New Publication.
That superb publication of the Nor
thern Pacific Railway company,
Wonderland" for 1902. is off the
press, and Il copy of the same may now
be procured by forwarding address
and six cents to Chas. S. Fee, G. P.
a., St. Paul. MINI. One chapter of
this edition is devoted to the Cheyenne
Indians, 1.-THE aristocrats of Montana 5
Indian tribes, and it is by no means
he least interesting OF the chapters
that go to make it "a thing of beaut,
and JOY forever
Editor DIN d. Wheeler begins this
section Of the book with the statement
that the year 1876 may trutnfully bs
called the high water mark of our In
dian warfare, and reviews briefly the
battles that have become part of the
history of Montana. ''When, in 1876,
the Sioux war began" Mr.. Wheeler
writes. "the prospect was too allurine
for the Cheyennes to hold aloof, and
both bands took part in it, particular
ly the northern contingent Crook
fought them on the Rosebud; Merritt.
in his fight on the War Bonnet, drove
back large war party of Southern.
Cheyennes, who were trying to join
their brethren in Crazy Horses camp:
they were among thos who annihilated
Custer on the Little Big Horn, and the,
were fought by Mckenzie and nile
during the fall and winter of 1907
And, strangely enough, too. some
them were allies of Crook and McKen
zie in 1907, and after the terribl
punishment given Dull knifes ban
in November, 1876, and his Subsequen
cold reception by Crazy Horse. the
Cheyennes quickly changed heart, sur
rendered, and were keen to go out, and,
with the whites, wreak vengeance o.,
Crazy Horse and his following. Their
firm determination to do this was the
real reason for the peaceful surrender
Of the latter in 1877
The history then relates the removal
of many of the Cheyennes to Indian
Territory, and how 300 Of them, dis
satisfied with the arrans e,nen,, broke
away and tried to regain tteir-o old hunt
ing grounds, fighting their way over
every foot of the ground. They were
finally corraled, many of them killed,
and some of them returned to Indian
Territory. Even so shaped themselves
that in 1884 the Tongue River reserva-
tion was established adjoining the
Grow reservation, and there the Chey-
ennes have remained. GNing an ac-
count of his visit to the reservation last
summer, Mr.. Wheeler says:
IF money were forthcoming for a
good system of irrigating canals on a
larger scale, considerable areas of land
might yet be brought under cultivation.
But for stock raising the country is al
most a paradise, and to this purpose
it should be devoted. The Cheyennes,
however, have no money, are entirely
dependent on the government for ra-
tions, have few cattle, no sheep and
,ot a large number of horses.
''There is a good supply uf timber
nd coal, and springs, ponds and
nall streams are fairly abundant.
let congress do the fair thing and
i've these old fighters of the plains a
nance to redeem themselves and earn
sheir own livelihood in a manner al
nee natural and congenial
Gas we traversed the reservation
md saw and talked with these people
n their own habitations, it was hard
persuade myself that there was no.
some great flaw in our former treat
nent of them, that they were such Ish-
maelites as they appear once to have
been. They now seem amenable to re-
traint, are slowly working out from
under the old superstitions, appear