Glacier County chief., 1940-09-13

cloud rain). which will make you
feel good. l give you good spirit and
give you all good paint. l want you to
come again in three months, some
from each tribe.
There will be great deal of snow
this year and some rain. In the fall
there will be such a rain as l have
never given you before.
Wovoka Counsels Peace
Grandfather "a universal title OF
reverence among Indians and here
meanin~ the Messiah says, when your
friends die you must not cry. You
must not hurt anybody or do harm to
anyone. You must not fight. Do right
always. 1t will give you satisfaction
in life. This young man has good
father and mother. referring possibly
to Casper Edison. young Arapahoe
who wrote the message for the tribal
delegation.
DO not tell the white people about
this. Jesus Is low upon the earth. He
appears like a cloud. The dead are
all alive again. l do not know when
they will be here, maybe this fan or
in the spring. When the time comes
there will be no more sickness and
everyone will be young again.
DO not refuse to work for the whites
and do not make any trouble with
them until yoL leave them. When the
earth shakes at the coming OF the
new world do not be afraid. 1t Will
not hurt you.
u want you to dance every six
weeks. Make feast at the dance ana
have food that everybody may, eat.
Then battle in the water. That Is all.
You will receive good words again
from me sometime. Do not tell lies. =.
There is nothing in the foregoing,
said General Howard, Ito warrant any
wicked conduct. On the contrary, II
this teaching had been even partly
followed believe it would have led TO
better behavio: among all the unciVi-
lized tribes of the Indian territory.
The Lesson Goes Astray
But behold the dancing picture! A
lot OF dancing. excited Indians, eacn
dressed in a calico shirt called the
mysterious shirt cut very short IKE
the army jacket, the DreamerS preach.
ing while the Indians are singing ana
shouting The buffalo are coming! Inc
buffalo are coming!' Then seizing each
others hands they go round and round
in dizzy circles, until one after anotA-
er of the dancers falls down uncon-
scious The medicine men declare these
PROSTATE Indians dead. and announce
that they are making a visit TO tne
Great Spirit world, where they WILL
meet the Son of God and all true IN
dams who have gone before. When
these dead Indians are restored 70
life they naturally have wonderful
stories to tell of their strange visions,
The Sioux. declared General Howard,
assumed that the Indian who promu!,
gated the doctrine and styled himself
a prophet. commonly called by other
Indians the Messiah, taught that the
Indians were to rise from the DEAD,
and that living Indians were TO nelp
them put to death all white men, alter
which the Indian hunting grounos were
to be restored in their primal condl-
ton: but Wovoka's actual message was,
in effect: You must do right. Do no
harm to anyone. Do right always.
The nontreaty Indians. those refuS-
ing reservation life, denied the 1urS,-,
diction of the United States. 10 al
offers of schools, farms, the teaching
of agriculture, they answered: Wt
given you our land You have no right
to take it from us. Washington cannot
divide up the country and give 1t tc
anybody. We will go where We
please, when we please. and do as we
please. Who gave Washington rule
over us?"
Sitting Bulls Rise to Power
lover this turbulent element says
Howard, there arose in every camF
Dreamer, and among the Indians far
ther west a 'tooat' Sitting Bull. al
Indian of large capacity and .great
energy. rose to power by becoming 9
chief and a Dreamer. He was at las
allowed by the Indians to exercise
supreme command, as was shown ir
the bloody massacre Of General Custer
and his command during the summer
Of 1876. The Messiah craze, in which
all the Dreamers believed. was taker
advantage Of by Sitting Bull and hi
men like him to divide the Indians anc
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