History and stories of Nebraska . toes gave each of us a agent for the Otoes said he had a telegram that thechiefs had run away, not to give us food or shelter or anyhelp. The Otoe agent afterward said when the Ponca chiefscame into his office that they left the prints of their feet inblood upon the floor. When the chiefs reached their own homes at themouth of the Niobrara they found there the agent whohad left them in the Indian Territory. He had sol-diers with him and wasmaking the Ponca peo-ple pack up their goodsin order to start for thenew country. The sol-diers put the women and
History and stories of Nebraska . toes gave each of us a agent for the Otoes said he had a telegram that thechiefs had run away, not to give us food or shelter or anyhelp. The Otoe agent afterward said when the Ponca chiefscame into his office that they left the prints of their feet inblood upon the floor. When the chiefs reached their own homes at themouth of the Niobrara they found there the agent whohad left them in the Indian Territory. He had sol-diers with him and wasmaking the Ponca peo-ple pack up their goodsin order to start for thenew country. The sol-diers put the women andchildren into wagonswith what few thingsthey could carry andstarted the teams for Standing Bear and Family in 1904. Indian Territory. This{From photograph by A. E. Sheldon.) t-x m -innn was on May 21, 1877. It was very rainy that spring. The Poncas were sad and heart-broken at leaving their old Nebraska homes. Some of them were sick. Prairie Flower, a daughter of Standing Bear and wife of Shines White, died of consumption at Mil-. THE STORY OF THE PONCAS 173 ford, Nebraska, and was buried there. The women of thevillage dressed the body for the grave and brought Indians were deeply affected by this kindness. Manychildren died as the tribe moved south across Nebraska andKansas. A tornado upset their wagons. Part of the timethey were out of food. One Indian became insane andtried to kill White Eagle, a chief, for letting so much troublecome upon his people. At the end of a three months journey the tribe reachedthe Indian Territory. They had left dry log cabin homes,their own plowed fields and beautiful clear flowing streamsand springs. In the new land they were set down on un-broken prairies with nothing but their wagons and water was very bad. All their cattle and many of theirhorses died. The people were homesick and their heartswere breaking. They talked all the time of their beautifulhome in Nebraska. The first winter one hundred and fifty-eight out of se
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