Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1916-05-09

day from visit to his Foster Father,
Chief John Grass OF the Dakota Ma
ton, who has been seriously i'll for
two months. Capt. WEIGH describes
the trip as very interesting one
From Cannon Ball the trip was made
TO Fort Yates in company with Father
| Vincent of the Standing Rock Cath
Ollie Mission, and a broken axle on
The auto made things lively and in
teresting for = time. While in Fort
Yates the Captain was guest OF
Fathers Bernard and Vincent The
old cemetery was visited and many
names OF historical remembrance are
seen on the stones. Mrs. Galpn
members of the well known Claymore
and LaFramboise families; Lieut.. of
Police Bull Head and Sergt. Shave
Head; Broken Arm, Hawk Man, War
liors Fear Him.. and other names Of
well known Indians Of that Nation,
as we'll as history making whites
ere to be seen. ia this beautiful we'll
kept city Of the dead And in one
spot long straight line of pathetic
little markers showing the last rest
ing place of many of the devoted
Sisters OF the Mission, who gave their
lives for the upbuilding and advance
ment of the Dakota people. OF on
the slope, in unhalowed ground is
single grave. A wooden slab has
engraven upon it, Sitting Bull, In
dian"
The Standing Rock, from which the
Reservation takes its name, still re-
poses upon its monument of brick,
where it was placed for preservation
from predatory relic hunters This
black glacial stone, was once a woman.
so the story goes. Disappointed and
angry over actions of another per-
son, the woman went out alone on
the flats north of the great hill at
the camp and refused to be comfort
ed. She declined to return and in the
course Of a short time, she and her
baby turned TO stone. For long
time this rock has been the object
Of great veneratiOn among the Da-
kota, and was finally removed to its
present resting place. However, it
is, perhaps not a stone of the Dakota
so much as of the Palani (Arickares)
who were driven out Of that country
by the Grandfather and Father Of the
present John Grass, who in his turn
drove many an attack against their
hereditary enemies, the Rees, and
completed the work expressly left for
him to do, by order OF his Grand
father, the great MatO Watakpe, of
the Sihasapa (BIackfeeD division of
the Sioux Nation. This conquest com
menced in 1898 and extending over
many years of hard and cruel war
fare, gave to the Dakota, that cOun-
try from the Grand River in South
Dakota to the Heart River in North
Dakota, and the hard pressed Rees
at last made an alliance with the
Mandans and eros Ventre, and with
them were making their last fateful
stand against the hOrdes of fierce Da-
kota warriors, at their great village
at the mouth of the Knife River, upon
the advent of the whites.
Captain Welch. accompanied by a
grandson of Chief Grass. Albert Grass.
guide made ride on horseback
of some thirty-eight miles, to the log
house where the Chief lay i'll. He
found him in very poor health, but
his many white friends will be pleas
ed to know that ~ is slowly imprOv-
ing. John Grass is the last directde-
scendent of true Indian Dynasty.
The influence of this line of Chiefs
has been more inf'narti"l than that of
the Little Crow line, of the MdeWan-
kanton division of the Dakota, whose
sea: of power was formerly at the
village of Kapoosa, the present site
of the city of Saint Paul. The prob
lens they met differed from Little
Crows in many ways, and We're more
difficult by far. The Teftons were
altogether a different people with in
stincts and characteristics not at
tanned to by the Mdewankatons and
other divisions of the Santees. Fierce
and warlike, these people of the great
grass country of the Missouri were
, commanded by men who had military
genius, such as Gall, the Hunkpapa
Crazy Horse, the Oglalla; Grass, the
Blackfoot and others such as Black
Moon and Waanata and Mad Bear of
the Fool Soldier Band That truly
great man, Red Cloud, General and
Orator: the answering patriot for
his people, Tatankaeotanka, Sitting
Bull; Running Antelope, Big Head:
Two Bears: Fire Heart and many
others, are now with the exception of
Chief Grass. all gone-swept aside
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