The St. Louis Republic. [volume] (St. Louis, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1903-07-26

tie tribal posts. the Pin refused to take the
grain until compelled, ard then he threw it
into the streams as an offering to the fish
he had worshiped for thods lnds of years.
When rations were issued and unloaded at
TIE door of the Keetoowah he exchanged
them for whisky to scme shark raider. who
often, with gallon of tire-water. could buy
Il thousand dollars worth of bacon and
flour.
| Fire-water is the only perquisite of civil
! 2ation that has found a welcome among The
| Pins.
DRINKS FIRE-NATER BECAUSE
| 1T MAKES HIM HATE HARDER.
1t is the only thing for which he has cx-
| hibiied n disposition to sacrifice even a. mite
| CT his savage Inheritance.
| The Pin likes fre-water because It L!st'lls
and concentrates the beast in him. 1t en-
! ables him to hate the white man with a
| more fiery energy. 1t adds luridness 10 the
/ war dance
| The more he drank OF whisky the more
/ GaIinS ne became In his hatred and oppos:-
! ton Of the paleface. He would even sell
| his pony for Il quart of the stuff. With the
/ Pin the craze for whisky was not slavery
/ 10 appetite 1t was ms sacrliicn 10 HIS
/ hatred Of the white man and kis ways. He
would have given up iis Squaw and his
| blankets. ara even his nua.:niy ground. fer
! it. if the Government had not prohibited.
: under heavy penalty, the sale of tho iiql"r.
He would have done mis- in the hope that
| some method of opening for summary re-
, venge on the white race.
| When the Dawes Commission opened an
| Office al Bunch. /. r. IN July, ll0c l., rake
| d final roll of the Cherol>ces, not Il Pin ap-
! peared. He could not he induced 20 come.
| INSTRUCTED AND THWARTED
| DAWES COMMISSIONS WORK.
| lie not only refused to come, but nei1
meetings and infused new life INTO his :ight
against allotment. In the three months that
the office was kept open at Bunch not
| one of the keetoowahs appeared and not one
of them could be found within an hori
| ride OF the village.
| In September. after the patience of the Fed
| eral o!lciais had been exhausted q .orce OF
| Deputy Marshals was sent out and nearly a
hundred of the Pins were arrested and
| thrown into Jail.
| They Were told that unless they enrolled
| they would be kept In prison. their hair
shaved OH II, and their plune,s and blankets
| leased. but went out and Immediately began
| to assist the others who had not been
| caught
! search OF the heads of families often found
ut the door OF tepee a force of bucks with
| drawn guns awaiting them and We're forced
| to retire to avoid bIoodshed
| Meetings were held throughout the nation
and every conceivable scheme was invented
| were presented; rightful names were with
| held, and in various ways the work of the
| Dawes Commission was brought to naught
! as far as the reliability of the enrolment
| and allotment was concerned.
! That is why the provisional nine months
| in the issuance of deeds is allowed and mat
1 is why the announcement that the work of
| the Dawes Commission will probably have
| to be gone over again has been made.
| PINS ORIGINALLY DIRECTED
| WARFARE OF THE CHEROKEES.
To block ard annul the moves Of civiliZa-
| ton was not the primary object of the Pin
| Indians. or the keetoowahs. In the early
| history of the country. the Cherokees were
| a warl.ke and predatory nation. They
| preyed on the Mohawks. Senecas. Della
| wares and other Northern tribes through
| the plots of the keetoowahs. When the In
| dian became so scarce that there was mt
| further room for internecine strife and de-
| stuction among Them the keetocwahs con-
! contracted the forces of the order and made
| the white man the common enemy.
Very little is known of the inner practices
| and REGULATIONS of the order 1t is known
| that the regulations for the punishment OF
| nufder consisted of a planAbased ON the idea
| Of a city of refuge for the guilty. which. II
| one .eached. protected him from punish
| meaI There were SIN of these cities when
| the CheroaeeS made the mountains Of Ten.
| ncssee the Mecca of hope for a future NUM-
! ing ground 1t was instant death Ito bt
cIught for murder. but to reach on. of these
cities Of refuge was absolute safety.