Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1908-07-17
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OPENING AN i.
indian empire
Nearly Three Million Acres
of Indian Reservation
Given to Settlers
Standing Rock Reservation
Will Soon Be Open for
demonstrating

with arrangements well under
way for the opening to settlement of
100000 acres of the Standing Rock
and Cheyenne River reservations, the
Indians are about as unconcerned as
they have ever been in my expert
ence of "a years among the Teton
Sioux" said S. P Wickham of Gler
Ullin, and former Indian trader at
Fort Yates, in an interview Sunday
.'As a matter of fact, the Sioux have
come to an acceptance of the new
conditions and they know that they
can only prosper in accordance with
the prosperity of the country in which
they live. They don't want room now
they want neighbors, for they know
that their wealth will be regulated
by the extent to which the soil is
cultivated. So they did not at all op
pose the opening of these reserva.
lions and the whole thing has been
done with so little noise that COM
paratiVely few people are aware of
| the fact that, when the necessary pre-
liminaries are disposed of, there will
| be thrown open to homestead in
| North and South Dakota and just
across the Missouri river, an immense
body of really magnificent country
And when it is settled and the Indians
have settled down on their allot
ments on that part of the reservation
which has been retained for them
the day of the Indian Of romance will
have passed forever
| "The Sioux occupying the Standing
Rock and Cheyenne River reserva
tons were the last big body of In
dams to be reached by the influence
| of civilization. Up to little more
than thirty years ago no one wanted
their country. They were wholly un
civilized and independent They were
| the masters in an immense tract o.
country, and they lived at very lord
| 1y ease until the white man wanted
| the gold in the Black Hills and the IA
lands upon which the Buffalo pastur
ed in enormous numbers There wa.
a treaty made with the Teton Siou1
back in 1869, which gave them prac
tically all the country north of TIT
North Platte and west of the Mis-
souri, river, over to the Big Horl
mountains. - IL.
RED Cloud of the Ogallalas, an.
other chiefs of the lower bands o
the Missouri river Sioux signed tn
treaty, but Sitting Bull didn't happel
to be on hand when the signing wa
| going on. On that ground he just
fed himself for being of what wa
regarded as his reservation whe
, Custer went on to chastise him, wit
} such dreadful results. 1t was afte
the Custer affair that the great Siou
. reservation was first cut down, whe
L it was further reduced in 1889, an
8 the lower agencies isolated from tt
5 northern. There must have bee
/ nearly 30,000,000 acres in the orr
8 fnal reservation which would giI
0 every Indian about 5000 acres
6 which to hunt for himself-and it
IS estimated that that much land W;
needed to subsist a man living by Il
chase.
]. Now this last agreement with II
II Standing Rock and Cheyenne Riy
% Sioux provides for the opening up
= the last part Of the reservation, 1
cept that which is to be used for g
ing the Indians their holding in 81
Q. crafty. The allotted lands will
/ those lying along the Missouri riv
q on both reservations. The reser1
& tons form single body OF land,
fact, and part of the land to be opt
ed will lie in North Dakota and p;
3. In South Dakota. There has been {
1 out Of the reservation a T-shap
0 Etract, with the foot of the T lying
]; the Missouri, the upper or weste
part Of the tract including all Of
west end Of the reservations. 7
q land to be opened to settlement Is
o the same character as that which /
o made the Dakotas famous for fer
d; ity, and believe the opening win /
the most important movement
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