Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1906-04-05
An OLD INDIAN FEUD
ris WAY il WAS ENDED 81 Tna
ACT OF 4 LITTLE CHILD.

Sioux nation who held TO all the saw
age traditions OF his race. For years
De refused to receive rations from the
bands OF the whites. and this marked
Sim singular among all the Sioux. His
deadly enemy WAS Little Scar. who had
made lasting peace In his heart with
the whites and who had yielded little
by little TO the allurements of civilized
living.
The enmity OF Crazy Wolf and Little
Scar dated from tile day or the great
battle with the Pawnees.
When the remnant OF the stricken
Pawnecs Ind turned to fiy Crazy Wolf
and Little Scar quarreled over the
right 10 take scalp. and u hand-to.
hand combat ensued. The chiefs part
die. for tile nation had need of all Its
men Though tile hands OF Crazy
WOlf and Little Scar were stayed by
The ehieftains hatred still lived III
their hearts.
II was ten years after tile battle with
the Pawnees and al the Pine Ridge
agency. where Il portion OF the Sioux
had been gathered. the government
erected u schOolhouSe for the Indian
children. Instantly division occur.
red between the fathers of the tribe
Onr.half OF the warriors wished to
send their little ones 10 tile school. The
other half declared that the teaching
or the whites should never hive place
In The minds OF their children. The
children OF Little Scar went to tile
school The children OF Crazy Wolf
were kept in the wigwam.
Runners came To Pine Ridge from
Sinndng Rock aud the Rosebud They
told of the coming OF the Messiah, that
the buffalo were returning and that IL
tue Southern Sioux would but put, their
ears 10 the ground they would hear the
thunder OF the houfs or the oncoming
| herd
unrlalf OF the warriors at Pine
Ridge we're seized with the Messiah
rrnz. They danced the ghost dance
nnd pui OH the ghost shirts. The one
half slampe,led from the agency. aud
with It Went Crazy Wolf. MS savage In
heart as he was when lie fought the
Pawnees on the frontier Of Nebraska
Little Scar stayed at the agency.
One day after the battle OF Wounded
Knee had been fought II band OF TWEEN
~ Sioux braves broke away from the
main body for the sole purpose OF raid
Ing Pine Ridge agency and killing the
children who were gathered IN the
schoolhouse- the children OF their broth
ers who had succulnbed TO the white
mans ways. In the band was Crazy
wolf, his heart fnll OF the lust of Kill.
Ing.
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the schoolh0nse. 1t stood OIL bluf
anu OIL one side was absolutely unpro-
tectea. Crazy Woif Knew the location
OF Tue room In which the little ones
gathered daily a! their lessons, The
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rush aowh the valley skirting the ridge,
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