. Annual report of the Bureau of American Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution. kill a. white man in retaliation, and thus com-numicating to his people the bitterness which he felt himself (scl thecalendar, 1873-74). Lone-wolf is described by Battey about this timeas being several years older than Kickingbird, not so far seeing, morehasty and rash in his conclusions, as well as more treacherous and cun-ning, l)ut with less depth of mind. He was the acknowledged leaderof the war element in the tribe. Wiiile lawless white men were thus destroying the buffalo, the Indi-ans th
. Annual report of the Bureau of American Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution. kill a. white man in retaliation, and thus com-numicating to his people the bitterness which he felt himself (scl thecalendar, 1873-74). Lone-wolf is described by Battey about this timeas being several years older than Kickingbird, not so far seeing, morehasty and rash in his conclusions, as well as more treacherous and cun-ning, l)ut with less depth of mind. He was the acknowledged leaderof the war element in the tribe. Wiiile lawless white men were thus destroying the buffalo, the Indi-ans themselves were sufleriug for food. The agent for the Cheyenne 200 CALENDAR HISTOKY OF THE KIOWA reports that for nearly four months preceding tlie outbreak tbe rationshad fallen short, and expresses the opinion that if there had been afull supply he could have held the tribe ft-oui the warpath. At thesame time they were being systematically robbed of their stock byorganized bands of horse tliieves. The immediate cause of the out-break by the Cheyenne in May, 1874, was the stealing by these men of. Photo by Bell, 1888 Fifl. 61- .ill. jtrt .s. ill In ad t hicl (il iht Kiowa forty-three valuable ponies belonging to the chief. Little-robe. Inattempting to recover them Little-robes son was dangerously wounded,in revenge for which the Cheyenne soon after killed a member of a sur-veying party in the Kiowa country and at once began open hostilities{Report, 34; Battey, 4). MooNEY] CHEYENNE OUTBREAK OF 1874 201 Agent Miles thus tersely sums up the provocation: The lack of power to administer the law—to remore improjier characters fromthis reservation, to break up the various bands of dissolute white men, horse andcattle thieves, known to be operating in our vicinity—is the prime cause that may beassigned for the serious outbreak among tlie Cheycnnes on tliis reservation. Aselsewhere stated, the Cheyennes and Arapahoes were assured by the President, ontheir recent visit to AVashington,
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