. Bulletin. Ethnology. BULL. 30] BRULE 167 inhabited by them in 1856 asi on the headwaters of the White and Niobrara, extending down these rivers about half their length, Teton r. forming the N. limit. He als^o says they were for a num- ber of years headed by a chief nameil. STRIKES—BRULE SIOUX Makatozaza, very friendly to the wliites, who by uniformly good management and just government kept his people in order, regulated their hunts, and usually avoided placing them in the starving situations incident to bands led l)y less judicious chiefs. They were good hunters, \isually well clothed
. Bulletin. Ethnology. BULL. 30] BRULE 167 inhabited by them in 1856 asi on the headwaters of the White and Niobrara, extending down these rivers about half their length, Teton r. forming the N. limit. He als^o says they were for a num- ber of years headed by a chief nameil. STRIKES—BRULE SIOUX Makatozaza, very friendly to the wliites, who by uniformly good management and just government kept his people in order, regulated their hunts, and usually avoided placing them in the starving situations incident to bands led l)y less judicious chiefs. They were good hunters, \isually well clothed and supplied with meat, and had comfortable lodges and a large num- ber of horses. They varied their occupa- tions by hunting buffalo, catching wild horses, and making war exi^editions against the Arikara, then stationed on the Platte, or the Pawnee, lower down on that river. Every summer excursions were made by the young men into the Platte and Arkansas country in quest of wild horses, which abounded there at that time. After emigrants to California and Oregon began to pass through the Dakota country, the Brules suffered more from diseases introduced by them than any other division of the tribe, being nearest lo the trail. The treaty of Apr. 29, 1868, between the Sioux bands and the Gov- ernment was in a large degree brought about through the exertions of Swift Bear, a Brule chief. Nevertheless, it was about this time or shortly after that a band of Brules took part in the attack on Maj. Forsyth on Republican r. Hay den gives 150 as the number of their lodges in 1856. In 1890 the Upper Brules on Rose- bud res., S. Dak., numbered 3,245; the Lower Brules at Crowcreek and Lower Brule agency, S. Dak., 1,026. Their pres- ent number as distinct from the other Teton is not given. The group is divided geographically into the Kheyatawichasha or Upper Brules, the Kutawichasha or Lower Brules, and the Brules of the Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page
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