Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1912-09-07
indian FAIR
NEXT WEEK
Reunion at Fort Yates will be
Biggest Affair Of Its Kind
In The State
Big Program WILDE Conducted
Under Management Of
The indians

On next wednesday, Sept. I'll, on
the Standing Rock Reservation near
Fort Yates, will open the big reunion
of Indian nations, which promises to
be the biggest affair OF the kind in all
time past or to come, with one posi-.
bic exception-the Capt. Clark feast
which occurred just SO years ago.
The object of this reunion, is to
give the red men one grand time, and
to bring together the famous war.
riors before they. have passed to the
happy hunting grounds and into history
There will be no O great warriors;
there will be no more great chiefs;
there will be no more grand stands of
carnage, for the tribes of savagery
are fast fading and dwindling till to.
day, education, civilization and gen.
eral weakness -: thinning their ranks
and there are but remnants. Two or
three generations more will see the
last OF the aborigine.
The preparations for this event are
well under way, there being now
about 200 wagons on the scene. One
hundred and fifty or two hundred
beeves will be killed for the occasion.
and are now on the grounds. ..s...
Chief ;ohn Grass Charging Rear)
hereditary Chief CT the Sioux will be
present and deliver an Grafton. He
is said to be the greatest orator of
the century, in fact the greatest since
Chief Gall. . u
ihe entire event is under the man.
agement of the Indians, and the pro-
gram is to be carried out with prompt
ness. 1t is estimated that there will
be at least 1000 Indians participat.
ing, and the songs, dances, weird and
hideous performances will continue
night and day beginning Wednesday
morning and closing Saturday might.
There will be tribes from ten
states, and the extensive representa-
ton of nations will be unparalleled in
history.
There never was a congregation Of
Indians equal to this in the history
Of the white men unless, possibly, 1t
was on the occasion when Captain
Clark, as governor Of Missouri, had
a similar meeting. Several years at
ter Captain Clark and his companion,
Lewis, had returned IRON their exDe-
dition to the coast, the Captain was
appointed by the president as COVER
nor Of Missouri, which comprised all
that territory included in the -,uisi-
ana purchase. Owing to the fact that
the British had poisoned the minds of
all the Indians in America against
the whites, by reason of the troubles
of the war of 1912, and had promised
them all that territory south OF the
Ohio river and east of the Mississippi
for their own, free and undisturbed, if
they would assist in subduing the
white there was annuity in the minds
of the red men throughout the east.
Captain Clark called the great peace
conference which he held where
Prairie du Chene, Wis, now is. There
were about 10000 savages in attend.
ance, and a great feast was INDUCED
in, and later the peace compact, or
treaty, was made. This was one of
the master strokes Of the life work
Of Captain Clark.
Never since that time has there
been a meeting of Indians which
would approach the n to be held at
Fort Yates next week. There will be
some white visitors, and those who
attend will be repaid for their trouble
and time, as it will undoubtedly prove
the n great chance of a life time.
Put IL your winter supply Of liunite