Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1908-11-04

Our Indian Warriors.
Prom GEN. o. o. HowARp's 9 IA.
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Far away In Wyoming lived the
Sioux Indians, q fierce and warlike
tribe. They called themselves Da-
kotas; but their enemies said that:
when they fought they did every
thing In mean, hidden way SO 1t
1 was hard to know what to expect.
and they called them Sioux, which.
means snakel lke-ones. To this tribe
belonged young brave who want
ed very much to become chief. His
father was fierce warrior and had
taught him how to fight. but he was.
! not satisfied to follow the leaders
OF his tribe, for he wanted to lead
other Indians himself. When this
young man was only eighteen years
old he had already learned to use
the bows could ride Indian ponies
and swim deep rivers, and was a
great buffalo hunter; besides. he Of
ten danced In war dances with older
braves. In some way he managed TO
get q rifle which fred several times
without reloading, and after that he
began to feel Of much more import.
ance than other young Indians.
AT first the young braves We're an
cry with him. but he soon showed
them that he was skillful warrior,
and before long many young Indians
chose him for their leader Now he
could wear an eagle feather in his
war bonnet, and was q real chief.
AT this time Uncle Sam had prom
ised to give each Indian a good blank
ct, and they were glad to get them,
The blankets were all bright red, and
when this young Indian and his fol-
,lowers. each wearing red blank.
ct, rode rapidly past, some one said,
See the Red Cloud" From that time
on the young leader was called RED
Cloud, and 30 far rs ] know was
never after given any other name.
The Sioux Indians have won
derful festival which they call the
san dance. At this time all the
braves try to show how much pain
they can bear without fiinching, and
some people say 1t makes them ten
der-hearted. Certainly "Red Cloud,
always could bear more than any
other warrior. and yet his heart was
6erce and warlike In time the In.
dams came to fear him, and little by
little he was chosen war chief Of all
the wild Dakotas or Sioux. He hated
the white people. and when other
Indians tried to make peace Red
Cloud always said: mo; war, war!".
Perhaps he knew that Just as soon
{ O. there was peace he would no
longer be asichief: at any rate. he
would not listen to any plan to stop
lighting.
Fort Phil Kearney In Wyoming
was In the middle Of the Indians.
country. One day word came to the
major there that party OF soldiers
who had gone ito get firewood had
been attacked. and some were killed.
the rest in great danger. The ma
jor at ONCE sent out rescue party
under Capt F'etterman, but Red Cloud
was waiting with two thousand war
ricrs, and not one white man es.
capped. s ~ !
Nobody could say now that Red
Cloud was not q great leader, and
even Uncle Sam. however, he feared
him: had to confess that he was
ssChief Of all the living Sioux In
dams. All the Sioux chiefs whose
fathers had been chiefs before them
were willing to give some indian
lands to the white people and live
on reservation, but Red Cloud
said: No, NO; I want war;. and the
younk warriors followed him In spite
Of the chiefs. He had many battles
and simply would not stop Aghting.
at last. in 1874, the Indians came
Ito one Of Uncle SANS army posts
for "big talk" The result was
that the Indians agreed to give up the
land they had fought for. and went
TO live on what was called Red;
Cloud Reservation" But still peace.
did not come. They were always
ready to break out. and every once
In q while houses were burned,
stages waylaid. and people killed. IT
was OF no use to treat the tribe kind:
ly so long as Red Cloud wanted war.
AT last, after many years, the war
chief began to feel that he could not
win his fight. SO very sadly he buried
his towahawk and signed what he
called "a peace paper" But he did
not really love his white brothers,
and when Uncle Sam wanted Indian
scouts to help him fight in 1876 Red
3 Cloud was angry, and sent some of
his warriors to wayiay the soldiers
and Indian scouts. Then Uncle Sam
said that Red Cloud could not ex-'
pect to- be chief il he did such
things, for the officers found that he
was always planning to make trou.
BILE; and they put Spotted Tall. a chief
who was frank and honest. in Red
Clouds place. But what good did
that do when the young Indians
loved Red Cloud and did what he
said! And he kept them from work.
ing with their hands, and said braves
must only hunt and fight. and he
would not try to keep peace or to
help Spotted Tall control the young
braves
Then at last when Red Cloud was
S . very old man. more than eighty
years old, he was: sick for the hrst
time In his life. He had to stay In