The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1908-07-03
AN OLD INDIAN FEUD
THE WAY IT WAS ENDED BY THE
ACT OF A LITTLE CHILD.
story OF the Long and Bitter Enmity
Between Crazy Wolf and Little Scar.
The Incident That Paved the Way
to Peace.

Between Crazy Wolf and Little Scar.
The Incident That Paved the Way
to Peace.
Crazy Wolf was warrior or the
Sioux nation who held to all the saw
age traditions of his race. For years
he refused to receive rations from the
hands Of the whites, and this marked
him singular among all the Sioux. His
deadly enemy was Little Scar. who had
made lasting peace in his heart with
the whites and who had yielded little
by little to the allurements of civilized
living.
The enmity of Crazy Wolf and Little
Scar dated from the day of the great
battle with the Pawnees.
When the remnant of the stricken
Pawnees had turned to fly Crazy Wolf
and Little Scar quarreled over the
right to take a scalp, and a hand-to-
hand combat ensued. The chiefs part
ed them and said that neither must
die, for the nation had need of all its
men. Though the hands of Crazy
Wolf and Little Scar were stayed by
the chieftains, hatred still lived in
their hearts.
1t was ten years after the battle with
the Pawnees and at the Pine Ridge
agency, where a portion of the Sioux
had been gathered, the government
erected a schoolhouse for the Indian
children. Instantly a division occur
red betwesn the fathers of the tribe.
One-half of the warriors wished to
send their little ones to the school. The
other half declared that the teaching
of the whites should never have place
in the minds of their children. The
children of Little Scar went to the
school. The children of Crazy Wolf
were kept in the wigwam.
Runners came 70 Pine Ridge from
Standing Rock and the 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 were 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 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 Woundet
Knee had been fought band of TWEEN
ty Sioux braves broke away from the
main body for the sole purpose Of raid
ing Pine Ridge agency and killing th'
children who were gathered in the
schoolhouse-the children Of their broth
ers who had succumbed to the white
mans ways. In the band was Cray
Wolf, his heart full of the lust of kill
ing.
The warriors came within sight o
the schoolhouse. 1t stood on bluff
and on one side was absolutely unpro
tected. Crazy Wolf knew the location
| of the room in which the little one
| gathered daily at their lessons. TIL
/ moupted warriors made a headloni
| rush down the valley skirting the ridge
| and as they whirled by the school the.
| poured volley after volley into tn
room where the children of the friendl.
| Sioux daily were assembled.
| 1t was not the fault of Crazy VOL
! that on that day there was not
slaughter of the innocents. 4 teache
! had seen the feathered heads showin
among the willows by White Cha,
creek and, taking the alarm. had hui
! ried the children to the cellar.
The raiding band went northward
! There was cavalry at the post to tax
| up the pursuit, and the fugitives sue
/ ceeded in reaching the main body o
! Indians. who by this time were SUI
rounded by the troops OF General Mile
and were being gradually forced int
the agency.
Crazy Wolf. when he saw the SUI
render of his brethren was coming
mounted his pony and made for III
Bad Lands. He foresaw the end OF III
uprising and the complete subjugatio
of his people, and he laid it at the door
of the tepees of the Sioux who had re
fused to Join the braves on tie wal
path.
! Crazy Wolf made up his mind to XII
Little Scar. He nearly starved in th
Bad Lands. and his pony was dead. .
week after the surrender he started fo
the agency On foot His ammunitio
! was goCa and he. had nothing but hi