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Charles Dillon, right guard, played on last year's team. He is a Sioux, 20 years old, 180 pounds in weight, and 5 feet 10 inches high...
...superseded by bead work. In addition to these there is a collection of pipes, among which are four calumets or sacred pipes of peace, and some eagle feathers of the kind usually worn at peace councils. The tribes of Indians represented in the collection are the Algonquins, the Sioux, the Seminoles and the Choctaws...
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...
...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...