The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-06-05

men poured into the Sioux territory. They protested. The white min ners asked the government to remove them. that was tried. But Sitting Bull re- fused to go.
 This is what we say to YOU he re- piled to the spokesman of a commits sion. We will kill any white man who is found in our country without having asked our permi ssi on-as it is said in the treaty you are trying to break
 The Indians made good their threat Small parties of whites di disappeared. Two army officers were killed. A small detachment of soldiers was attacked Sitting Bull, meanwhile, had retired to the hills and was making me cine that would wipe the whites from the earth. | Gall and Rain-in-t he Face were the generals in the field. The intermittent and guerilla warfare went on until 1876, when the governm ent decided to ! campaign against Sitting Bull and his followers. Three columns of soldiers marched. Gall Lone Bull Rain-in-t the Face and Crazy Horse, the four fight | ing chiefs met the three columns one at a time and defeated them. The last battle was with Clusters command, which resulted in the massacre of Little Big Horn. General Crook and General | Terry escaped with heavy losses. 1 Sitting Bull now returned from his
 fasting and assumed all credit for the victories. only Gall was fin clined to
 dispute him. Sitting Bull replied haughtily that medicine was more i'm
 portant than shooting in fighting the whites, and cited as proof the Iact that
 never before had the Indians been so
 successful Rain-in- th Face, speak ing of the battle afterward, said, then | Sitting Bull went away to make more
 medicine. and didn't come back till the 1 fight was over.
 Naughty and D0mineering | Sitting Bull, his power now immeas-
 urably increased, became more naughty | and domineering. He addressed in- 1 sulting notes to the comma ndants of various forts. He caused Indians who
 were lul<e-warm in their support to be
 tortured. driven out of camp and even l killed. But he was afraid of Gall. who
 once or twice openly denounced him. In a short time General Miles met
 Sitting Bulls followers and defeated
 them. Two thousand surrendered. Sit ting Bull, when the news was brought l to the medicine house, where he was
 praying. went into frenzy. His peo- pie had disre ga rded the medicine he declared. Had they fought longer suc- cess would have come.
 Some Indians. especially the moro prominent ones, remained with Sitting Bull He fled to Canada with them and from that vantage point conducted a | series of conferences with the United States authorities. He stood resolute l in his demands that the original treaty should be respe cted. He often declared that he never would become an agency lIndian. Gall, meanwhile, became more and more discontented
 Finally Gall determined to break away. He assembled about 20 families lof insurgents and planned to steal a tsp.~ D,x11r and
 surrender to the United States. The
 plar was discovered and Sitting Bull denounced Gall. That intrepid warrior decided upon a bold play He jumped
 on platform in the villa ge and called
 upon all to choose between him and Sitting Bull Nearly two-thlrds of the
 population went with Gall.
 Sitting Bulls popularity now sank to
 It's lowest ebb. Every day a few fol-
 lowers left him. He was in despair
 when he saw chance to reinstate
 himself in power. A young Indian in
 Montana was acquiring considerable
 notoriety then by announcing that the
 second coming of the Messiah would
 mean freedom for the Indians. Sitting
 Bull decided to use this as a lever to
 regain his prestige. He became an
 agency Indian, and then retired to the
 hills to fast and pray. In a few weeks
 gaunt and haggard. he returned and
 monies were held. and from z,O0O to
 5000 Indians moved their tepees near
 his lodge. His word became law again. The government decided to ar-
 rest him/ as means of preventing trouble. He resisted detail of Indian police. and in the result ant melee Sit
 ting Bull was killed by a revolver shot
 from the hand of one of his own tribesmen who had followed Gall and
 became a member of the Indian police