Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1906-05-19
OLD INDIAN FEUD.
now 1T WAS ENDED BY A LIT
TIE GIRL.

Crazy Wolf was a warrior Of the
Sioux nation, who held TO all the saw
e traditions Of his race. For years
he refused to receive rations from the
hands of the whites, and this marked
him singular among all the Sioux.
Ills 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 allure
ments OF civilized living.
The enmity OF Crazy Wolf and Lit
tie Scar dated from the day OF the
great battle with the Pawnees.
When the remnant Of the stricken
Pawnees had turned to fly Crazy Wolf
and Little Scar quarreled over the
right to take a scalp, and a hand-to-
hand combat ensued. The chiefs part
ed them and said that neither must
die, for the nation had need of all its
men. Though the hands Of Crazy Wolf
and Little Scar were stayed by the
chieftains, hatred still lived In their
breasts.
1t was ten years after the battle
with the Pawnees and at the Pine
Ridge agency, where a portion Of the
Sioux had been gathered, the govern
ment erected a schoolhouse for the
Indian children. Instantly a division
occurred between the fathers of the
tribe. One-half declared that tne
teaching Of the whites should never
ave place in the minds OF their chill
uFen. The children of Little Scar
vent to school. The children Of Crazy
Wolf We're kept "a the wlawam.
Runners came TO Pine RIDGE from
Standing Rock and Rosebud. They
told OF the coming of the Messiah.
that the buffalo were returning and
that If the Southern Sioux would but
put then ears to the ground they
would hear the thunder of the hoofs
of the oncoming herd.
One-half of the warriors at Pine
Ridge agency were seized with the
Messiah craze. They danced the ghost
dance and put on the ghost shirts
The one-half stampeded from the
agency, and with it went Crazy Wolf
as savage in heart as he was when no
fought the Pawnees on the frontier of
Nebraska. Little Scar stayed at the
agency.
One day after the battle of Wound
ed Knee had been fought a band Of
~ Sioux braves broke away from the |
main body for the sole purpose OF
raiding Pine Ridge agency and killing |
the children who were gathered in the |
schoolhouse-the children OF their |
brothers who had sucC mbed to the |
white mans ways. In the band was
Crazy Wolf, ais heart fun of the lust
of killing.
The warriors came within sight OF
the schoolhouse. 1t stood on "A bluff.
n on n side was absolutely unpro-
tscted. Crazy Wolf knew the location
OF the room in which the little ones
gathered daily at their lessons. The
mounted warriors made a headlong |
rush down the valley skirting the
ridge, and as they whirled by the
school they poured volley after volley /
into the room where The children OF /!
the friendly Sioux We're assembled.
II IA not the fault of Crazy Wolf |
eaAt w tHUt baf tHciN Wdh Avn a !
slaughter OF the lnnocents. A teacher |
had seen the feathersd heads showing ]
-aong the willows by the White Clay |
creek. and, taking the alarm, had hur- |
Tied the children to the cellar.
The raiding band went nOrthward. |
There was cavalry at the post to take
up the pursuit, and the fugitives sue
ceeded in reaching the main body OF
Indians, who by this time were sur |
rounded by the troops OF Gen. Miles
and were being gradually forced INTO /
the agency.
Crazy Wolf, when he saw the sur !
render OF his brethren was coming,
mounted his pony and made for the
Rad Lands. He foresaw the end of
the uprising and the complete subju-
CATION of his people, and he laid it at
the doors Of the tepees Of the Sioux
who had refused to join the braves
on the warpath.
Crazy Wolf made up his mind to kill
Little Scar. He nearly starved in the
Bad Lands and his pony was dead. A
week after the surrender he started
for the agency on foot. His ammuni-
ton was gone and he had nothing but
his knife. He ate willow bark and
roots. Hunger took his bodily
strength. but his heart purpose was
un%weakened.
Crazy Wolf, starving, lay on the
hank of the White Clay creek. The
tepee of Little Scar was only 800 yards
away. Crazy Wolf was famished, but
he lay there in the bushes waiting for
night and vengeance. He looked down
TO the waters edge, and there he saw
a little girl with a willow basket full
of food. The little Il looked up and
saw the famished eyes of the warrior.
She smiled at him and held u her
basket. Crazy Wolf knew his strength
was going fast. 1t might not last till
the hour of revenge, He ate the prof
fered food. The child was molding
clay. Suddenly she turned and offered
Crazy Wolf the model of a peace pipe.