Thirty years on the frontier . peared in anIndian village in Nevada a man who wasstrange to them and to the neighboring told them a wondrous story. He hadcome from a far-off land beyond the settingsun, and was sent by the Great Spirit to res-cue the redmen from the oppression of thepaleface, to restore to them their huntinggrounds and to populate the plains once morewith the buffalo and the antelope. He taughtthem a new form of the death dance andmade a garment, decorated it with hiero-glyphics and blessed it, and said that it wouldturn the bullets of the white man. They re-ceived hi
Thirty years on the frontier . peared in anIndian village in Nevada a man who wasstrange to them and to the neighboring told them a wondrous story. He hadcome from a far-off land beyond the settingsun, and was sent by the Great Spirit to res-cue the redmen from the oppression of thepaleface, to restore to them their huntinggrounds and to populate the plains once morewith the buffalo and the antelope. He taughtthem a new form of the death dance andmade a garment, decorated it with hiero-glyphics and blessed it, and said that it wouldturn the bullets of the white man. They re-ceived his tale with great rejoicing and start-ed immediately to carry the tidings to thetribes on the plains to the east. Great en-thusiasm among the Indians marked theprogress of the march across the country,and when he reached the Eosebud Agency inSouth Dakota, so exaggerated were the won-drous stories that preceded him, he was fair-ly worshipped as a deity. Chiefs Eed Cloud,Crow Dog and Two Strikes brought him be- I—» oa. Crq 00. THIRTY YEARS ON THE FRONTIER. 89 fore the Great Council at Pine Eidge Agency,some fifty miles distant from Eosebud. For more than three months after his ar-rival thousands of the Sioux warriors keptup the ghost dance almost nightly. The quan-tities of unbleached domestic that they werepurchasing at the agency stores and makingup into ^ ghost shirts, together with the am-munition they were known to be hoardingconvinced the agency authorities at PineEidge that an outbreak was imminent. A callwas made for United States troops, but be-fore any considerable number arrived hostili-ties had begun. A cattle herder was killedand a large herd of cattle belonging to thegovernment was driven into the same night Chief Eed Cloud, who had be-come almost blind in his extreme old age, wastaken forcibly from his home near the PineEidge agency building and made to lead thehostile attack on the Jesuit Mission somefour miles distant. A desultory firing waskept
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