The Washington herald., 1906-11-06
THE INDIAN OUTBREAK.
Editor The washlngton Herald:

I Editor The Washington Herald:
Are We making preparations for another
massacre Of Indians Ike that shameful
/ slaughter of December. 1890. known as
/ the battle" of Wounded Knee? The Her
aid iustifes the question. when il SAYS
/ Of the Ctes: There are los lgating men
among them, and they could put up a
stiff fight but it Is not believed they
will resist troops in large force The In
/ dian Office does not think there viii be
. any trouble unless a hot-headed indian
should fire on the soldiers Then there
might be a repetition OF Wounded
Knee. What vas this so-called bat
/ tic The facts are stated in Gen.
Colby's official report. On December y
the Seventh Cavalry, under command OF
Capt. Whiteside. surrounded and cap
JUred Big Foot, wit. his entire band Of
Io6 warriors and about 200 wcmen and
children. guaranteeing them safety as his
prisoners. The capture was made without
resistance.
These remnants = ne roIlovers Of sitting Bun
had relied rpm The Word q aIt Wlitesids 10
yil-ding to The military autEo.ity. but lhey were
suspicious aad uneasy. May o. them beIisged
supposed that their dissguiug simply to rsn-
Ger them dctelsclCss. When toe detachment &c
TUNED the little bud Of l9S warriors oulv partly
s-l--d- surroun6si Oy 20 RITES ana eoiers5 by
battery o. Hotcakiss s1us raised lheir pIa.nti5e
death chaEt. Then q Guskv warrior steuuz5 for
wNd stopped to the Erourd gathered a handful
u earth aud threw u into the air II the
twinkiing Of az eye the dsafh chant vas chang 4
% war song and before the startled soldiers
realized their danger. the Indians drew their riffs
Ns=s. HHa--
and hatclats and rushed Upou the vail of ri6es
f0E Nheity o. death II was the desperate deara
struggle Jf brave men against three o. four fines
their u1-nheI. who beiic Cd they Wece all 10 b
-9assacTc1 aud who determined to sell their lives
ss dearly ss possible The slaughter was ter i1le.
rites rans. hatchets whizzed through the air sol
dies shouted. aud the savage war-ghooB sounded
across the bluffs and echoins cauous for mics
ihe Indians broke through the lines and ran 70
.ue ,ens6s. fhs Hoichkiss guns ws.e turned
upon them regardless o. women and chudreu. and
he Eenea5ed rolsys from carbipss brought them
d9Vn lie gain be-oIe the sickle. The SURVIVING
lnd-ans started 10 escape The Hotehkiss r1ns
"e.e turned up1n them and the battle bee.ae
really hgot on tae part Of the soldiers the pur
pCss being total determination. Al order and
Tactics we're abandoned. The object being soleIg 70
km Indians. resard'ess Of age or sex. The blttlg
was ended oaly wbon not live Indian was in
sight About 100 warriors and oyer 10 wope,
a2d caildisn were found dead Oh the Geld
We are promised that there shall be no
repetition OF this unless a bot-heade8
Indian should IRE on the soldiers" "I-D-
less" indeed, But IL some hot-beadea
lnd;an'-some youth rendered desper-
ate by the oUtragss that the whites have
for generations inflicted on his peopIe
should IRE AT soldier. then "a repetition
Of the Wounded Knee battle"-the in
massacre by our soldiers of
the men, women, and children IN the In
alan camp. is such wholesale slaughter
what our army is for: Are our soldiers +
10 be kept from generation 70 generation /
IN the wicked and cowardly business Of
piinE red cofpses in heaps? Such from .
tier horrors as the massacre Of Wounded +.
Knee ought TO be henceforth forever i'm /
possible to a nation which calls itself
civ ilized.
are we not sufficiently disgraced by our
exhibitions OF bad faith with the Indians I
Il Is recorded that of all the hundreds
Jf treaties that have been made with the
tribes the whites have never kept one /
HAT il was for their interest 70 violate. /
and the Indians have never broken one,
And must there now be another massa
re because our wards protest against