Perth Amboy evening news., 1906-05-10
OLD INDIAN FEUD.
HOW IT WAS ENDED. BY ALT
TIE GIRL.

~ M TTZEHE
TIE GIRL.
Crazy Wolf was a warrior of the
Sioux nation, who held to all the saw
age traditions of his race. For years
ne refused to receive rations from the
hands of the whites, and this marked
MIN singular among all the Sioux.
HIS deadly enemy was Little Scar,
who had made lasting peace in his
hearu with the whites and who had
yielded little by little to the allure
ments of civilized living.
The eRmity of Crazy Wolf and Lit
tie Scar dated from the day OF the
great battle with the Pawnees.
Whensthg remnant of the stricken
Pawnees had turned to fly Crazy Wolf
and3kLittle Scar .quarye1ed over the
right 70 take a scalp, and a hand-to-
hand cohibat ensued. The chiefs part
ed them and said that neither must
die, for the. nation had need of all it's
men. Though the hands of Crazy Wolf
and Little Scar were stayed by the
~chieftains, hatred still lived in their
Breasts @4al
1t was ten years after the battle
with, the Rawnees and at the Pine
Ridge agency, where a portion of the
Sioux had been gathered, the govern
ment erected a sc~hoolhouse for the
Indian children. Instantly a division
occurred between the fathers of 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 if the Southern Sioux would but
put their 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
iessiah 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 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 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
scho3lhouse-the children of their
brothers who had succ"mbed to the
white mans ways. In the band was
Crazy Wolf, ais heart full of the lust
of killing.
The warriors anne within sight of
the schoclhouse. 1t stood on a bluff,
and on one side was absolutely unpro-
tected. 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 were assembled.
1t a not the fault of Crazy Wolf
that on that day there was not a
slaughter of the innocents. A teacher
had seen the feathered heads showing
among the willows by the White Clay
creek, and. taking the alarm, had hur-
ried the children to the cellar.
The raiding band went northward.
There was cavalry at the post to take
up the pursuit, and the fugitives suc-
ceeded in reaching the main body of
Indians, who by this time were sur-
rounded by the troops of Gen. Miles
and we're being gradually forced into
the agency.
Crazy Wolf, when he saw the sur