The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1907-02-16
INDIAN WAR AGAINST
PALEFACE IS ENDED
Failure of Ut Uprising sho'o. There Is No Fight Left
in Poor Lo.
INDIAN
in Poor Lo.

The American Indian has seen his
last days as fighter.
The pathetic crdmbling Of the Ute
uprising shows that Uncle Sam need
no longer worry oyer the former cause
of peril and death the Indian war.
From the days when King Phillip,
in Massachusetts, organized the first
great uprising of the redskin, through
two and half centuries down to the
present day, the redman was the
most consistent foe that Uncle Sam
had the deal with.
Wars came with Britain, Mexico,
Spain and an internecine struggle
threatened the national existence, but
these wars, though far more impor-
tant, lasted only briefly, while the con-
f1ict with the Indian was almost con-
tinuous.
There was never security, for as
fast as one tribe would be pacified an
other broke out.
In the early part of the contest the
Indians had to be forced out Of the
East by the constantly increasing
white population, then to be pushed
West, and made hundred-year stand
before finally conceding defeat.
In the last quarter century his out
breaks have been sporadic. The Ute
uprising is the first threatening move
that has attracted attention in dec
AIDE. It's futility shows that the gov
ernment has succeeded in cajoling and
fright ening out of it's wards the old,
bold, fearless spirit that rocked moth
ing of consequences or final vengeance
if temporarily damage could be done
to the hated paleface.
The pacification of the Utes quells
the last Of the great warlike tribes.
They held out longest against the gov
errment, and it was not until 1889 that
they agreed to the opening Of their
reservation in the choicest part of Col
nrado's hunting grounds. In that year
Chief 1gnacio and more than a thou
sand of his followers coded their rights
to the government in exchange for
$4,000 a year and rations. They with
drew to small farming reservations set
aside for them in La Plata and Ar
chu!eta counties
This act meant the remuneration OF
the rights to ground over which
proud tribe of $4,000 of their ancestors
had once reigned supreme.
The Utes had ranked among the
Dravest of the Indian nations, and
we're exceeded in ferocity by the
Araches only. Jim Brider, the ia
nous early Western scout used to tell
stories Of how in the battles with the
whites and with the Cheyennes and
Comanches, Ute warriors used to de-
liberately sacrifice their lives in order
TO secure tactical advantages through
which their fellow tribesmen might
eventually win their battles.
This mad love of fighting really
caused the defamation in the ranks OF
the Utes. When the Union Pacific
railroad was taken across the plains
in the years between 1860 and 1875,
it was the Utes who bravely fought
the invader. They had the vain hope
that by checking the work they could
keep the plains to themselves, and it
took the most constant activity on
the part of United States soldiers to
prevent the massacre of every pale
face connected with the work
AS long as the white man kept away
the Utes stuck to Colorado, but in the
early seventies there was division
which sent many to Utah.
This was the proud stock from
which sprung the Utes, who, during
the last few weeks have been causing