The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1906-05-17
OLD INDIAN FEUD.
HoW IT WAS ENDED BY A LIT
TIE GIRL.

landS or the WHITES, dH" lh'7
llm singular among all the Sioux
His deadly enemy was Little Scar
VINO had made lasting peace IN hh
leart with the whites and VINO max
Yielded little by little to inc allure ,
ments Of civilized living.
The epmity OF Crazy Wolf and Lip +
lie Scar dated from the day or tns
great battle with the Pawnees.
When the remnant OF the sfrlcKeI
PaWnees had turned to fly Crazy won
and Little Scar quarreed over tl'
right to take scalp, and hand-to'
hand combat ensued. The chiefs part
I'd them and said that neither mus
die, for the nation had need OF all III
men. Though the hands OF Crazy Won
and Little Scar We're stayed by th'
chieftains, hatred still lived in then
breasts.
II was ten years after the battls
with the Pawnees and at the Pins
Ridge agency, where Il portion OF ths
| Sioux had been gathered, the govern
ment erected schoolhouse Tor the
| Indian children Instantly division
| occurred between the fathers or the
/ tribe One-half declared that the
| teaching OF the whites should never
have place in the minds Of their chill
/ dren. The children of Little Scar
went to school. The children OF Crazy
| Wolf were kept in the wigwam
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 IL the Southern Sioux would but
put their ears to the ground they
would hear the thunder OF the hoofa
of the oncoming herd,
One-haif OF the warriors at Pine
Ridge agency We're 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 1t went Crazy Wolf,
as savage In heart as he was when he
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 band OF
20 Sioux braves broke away from the
main body for the sole purpose OF
raiding Pine Ridge agency and killing
the children who We're gathered in the
sehoolhouse--the children of their
brothers who had sucoumbed to the
: white mans ways. In the band was
} Crazy Wolf, ais heart full of the lust
) of killing.
+ The warriors came within sight Of
r the schoolhouse. 1t stood on bluff
I and on one side was absolutely unpro
tected. Crazy Wolf knew the location
r Of the room in which the little ones
/ gathered daily at their lessons. The
, mounted warriors made a headionf
> rush down the valley skirting tbs
ridge. and as they whirled by thu
school they poured volley after volles
into the room where the children o.
, the friendly Sioux were assembled
Il was not the fault Of Crazy Vol
, chat on that day there was not
: slaughter of the innocents, A teache
. had seen the feathered heads showini
among the willows by the White GA!
creek. and, taking The alarm, had hur
ried the children to the cellar.
The rafding band went northward
There was cavalry at the post to tax
nm the pursuit and the fngtives sue
ceeded in reaching the main BODY o
indians, who by this time were sur
rounded by the troops Of Gen. Mile
and were being gradually forced int
the agency.
Crazy Wolf, when he saw the sur
render of his brethren was cohlht
mounted his pony and made for III
Rad Lands. He foresaw the END G
~ tho uprising and the complete suplu
,at,on of his people, and he laid It a
The doors of the tepees or the Sou
!, who had refused to join the brave
- on the warpath
Crazy Wolf made up his mind to ri
title Scar. He nearly starved In th
rad Lands and his pony was dead
II ,yeek after the surrender he starte
, for the agency on foot. His ammun
Z ton was gone and he had nothing d.
II bis knife. He ate willow bark an
roots Hunger took his bodll
,trength. but his heart purpose VIZ
unweakened
\ Crazy Wolf, starving, lay on u
h,nk of the White Clay creek. ii
J tenee of Little Scar was only 300 yar'
away. Crazy Wolf was famished. b
he Law there in the bushes waiting Il
night and vengeance. He looked dow
err ~ The waters edge. and there he sa
a little girl with willow basket II
If food. The little one looked up al
saw the famished eyes of the warrio
She smiled at him and held out h
III basket. Crazy Wolf knew his streng
m was going fast. 1t might not last I
81 the hour of revenge. He ate the pro
or fered food. The child was moldil
he ciay Suddenly she turned and ofer
in Crazy Wolf the model of peace PHI
ne you have eaten" she said, mo
Ia smoke"
Crazy Wolf took the pipe and bic
ID an imaginary cloud of smoke avn
ed from his lips. The little one smiI
% AZ him again.
ng Whose child are your" ask
be Crazy Wolf.
THE child of the great warrior l.
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