. Our pioneer heroes and their daring deeds . THE IDKAL IXBIAN. outlines, with hero and there the touches which give interest to G17 6l8 Modern Indian fighters and wars. the whole. The causes of the conflicts which are constantlyalarming the border, are not hard to discover. The UnitedStates makes a solemn treaty with a certain tribe, and deliber-ately breaks it whenever convenient; then, in the language ofthe frontier, Indians are Indians—which nobody can deny—not the noble red man of Coopers novels, pausing from hishunt to quaff the pure water that gushes from the rock, but thedirty, lying,
. Our pioneer heroes and their daring deeds . THE IDKAL IXBIAN. outlines, with hero and there the touches which give interest to G17 6l8 Modern Indian fighters and wars. the whole. The causes of the conflicts which are constantlyalarming the border, are not hard to discover. The UnitedStates makes a solemn treaty with a certain tribe, and deliber-ately breaks it whenever convenient; then, in the language ofthe frontier, Indians are Indians—which nobody can deny—not the noble red man of Coopers novels, pausing from hishunt to quaff the pure water that gushes from the rock, but thedirty, lying, thieving wretch, who hangs about the frontier sa-. BUR^^U (jr llC±i7ffA THE KEAL ARTICLE. loons, until he can beg or steal enough whisky to sink him evenlower than he is by nature; or who, failing that, becomes thefollower of some chief whose sole business it is to attack theemigrant trains or massacre the women and children of somelonely cabin. THE SIOUX massacre. While the great Civil War wasconvulsing the country, whilein every home the news of raid and battle was anxiously looked THE SIOUX MASSACRE. 619 for, in a State far from the scene of carnage, which perhapsfelt the war as little as any other, there occurred one of the mostterrible and unprovoked Indian massacres on record. The prin-cipal Sioux Reservation was then in Minnesota, covering an ex-tent of twenty by one hundred and forty miles. A certain year-ly sum had been set ajsart by the United States Government toprovide them with ammunition, food and clothing; but in 1858it was decided to apply a considerable portion of this to thecivilization of the tribe. Every effort wa
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