Word: sioux
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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Skull and Bones - A. P. Stokes, Jr., New York; M. C. D. McKee, Washington; Maitland Griggs, Hartford; Wm. M. Beard, Poughkeepsie; Ward Cheney, South Manchester, Conn.; Alexander Brown, Philadelphia; Samuel Thorne, New York; J. H. DeSibour, Washington; Edward L. Trudeau, Saranac Lake, N. Y.; R. B. Treadway, Sioux City, Iowa; F. A. Weyerbauser, St. Paul; W. R. Smith, New York; Brinkerhoff Thorne, New York; James Neale, Kittanning, Pa., and W. R. Cross, New York...
...beginning of his speech Bishop Hare said that he came to speak of the Sioux tribe only, a small portion of the Indians of the United States, but by far the most important. These Sioux constitute the most important tribe of recent United States history. It was this tribe which has been most strenuous in opposition to the advances of civilization; it was to settle difficulties with the Sioux that the famous council of 1868-9 met; it was this tribe whose warriors were most belligerent...
...education and missionary work have done much for the Sioux in recent years. It is often asked, however, if education really subdues the inherent fierceness of the Sioux blood-if these Indians do not often relapse into vicious modes of life after leaving the mission school? Not often, but sometimes. Can not any one cite examples of college friends who have had every advantage of education and surroundings, and yet have gone to the bad? And should one expect better things of the Indian? Can a settlement of Indians be very vicious where it is perfectly safe for a single...
Then, too, the United States government has not always observed the various clauses of its treaties. The promises of the government to give comfortable houses to the Indians have not been observed in one case out of five. When we think of these things, and remember that the Sioux are a people who in years gone by were wont to roam from Kansas to Canada, and from the Mississippi to the Rocky Mountains, can we wonder at their restlessness? By the recent action of Congress in depriving this tribe of half their land, 11,000,000 acres, this restlessness...
...most valuable workers for the museum is Miss Alice C. Fletcher. She has been devoting herself to the study and improvement of the Indian race in America. Her long visits to the to the Omaha, Ponca, Winnebago, Sioux and Nez Perce Iddians have given Miss Fletcher a deep insight into the character of the Indian race, and have enabled her to obtain for the museum trophies and relics from the different tribes which before have probably never been seen by the eyes of any other race. Among these curiosities is the sacred pole of a tribe with the scalps...