Plentywood herald. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1908-current, 1931-06-25

further use as chief of their nation,
and gave the position to the pro-
nounced foe of the white race-Sitting
Bull. This was, in fact, the first step
in that aggressive policy which marked
the history of the Sioux from 1871
down to the day on which their power
was broken.
Fort Peck Agency
Fort Peck in 1876 comprised the
Y~anctonnais, AssinniboineS, GroS
Ventres, Uncpapas, Brules and Tetons,
numbering between 5000 and 10000.
The Indians who then led off in the
agricultural industry were White Shell,
Broken Arm, Red Stone, Long Fox,
Little Bull, Walking P%orcupine, Wolf
skin, Necklace, all A~ssinniboine chiefs.
Agent Thomas j. Mitchell recommend
ed the removal of the agency to Pop
lar creek, twenty-five miles below Vol
Point, on the Missouri. According to
the census taken they numbered 8,498
together with 100 mixed bloods and
So whites lawfully On the reservation.
Fort Belknap agency was discontinued
in 1876, and the duties of its agent,
Mr.. Fanton, transferred to the agent
at Fort Peck. The extension of the
Sioux reservation in 1870 from the
mouth of the Musselshell to that Of
the Yellowstone, SO as to embrace 6OO
square miles of territory, was reduced
in 1873 when the portion from the
Musselshell to Benton was opened to
settlement. A year later Orvil Grant,
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a monopoly of all trade with the IN
dams here, which drove out M. c.
Hunt, who was factor for Durfee a.
Peck. Thumb moved his post to the
mouth of Dry Forks, from which he
was again driven by another extern
sion of the reservation. In 1879 The
reservation was cut down. August Is,
1876, congress enacted that no moneys
should be appropriated for the SUBJ
sistence of the Sioux until they re-
linquished all claim to all territory
outside of the reservation established
for them in the treaty of 1868.
On September 5, 1877, Crazy Horse
was arrested at the Spotted Tail agen-
cy, but while being disarmed he
stabbed Little Big Man, and was him
self stabbed in the side by Grow Dog,
the captain of police. His death oc-
Cured early on the morning of Sep
tember 9th. Medicine Bear, the Yank-
ton war chief, died IN the Red Water
near Bull mountain, in August, 1885,
He participated in nearly all the mas
sacres by the Sioux since 1871, was
present participating in the Custer af-
fair, and boasted that in his lifetime
he killed more white men than any
other warrior Of the tribe, and aided
Rain-in-the-F Face in killing General
Custer. Some months prior to his
fatal illness he asked to be baptized
according to the Catholic ritual, and
in this faith he died a repentant red
sinner.
In December. 1892, the Yanktons,
under chief Catfish seized and appro-
priated the property Of seven white
hunters, who we're caught hunting on
the reservation. This extreme least
was due to the fact that at that time
over 1000 white men were engaged in
the buffalo hunt between Dry Fork
and MuSselshell creek. Indian Agent
Porter and his police offered their aid
to the Indians in protecting their
reservation, and this added to the fact
that the wanderings of the buffalo
soon changed the scene Of trouble,
averted what promised to be another
Indian a
In January, 1883, Chief Red Cloud
claimed $1,000 from the government
for ponies seized and sold by General
Crook in 1876. The amount realized
from the sale of these ponies was
$4,000, which sum was to be applied.
for the benefit of the Indians, in the
purchase of COWS. The cows were not
purchased up to the date of the In
dams claim.