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Show INDIANS WOULD FIGHT A Sioux Indian chief with a white man's name has offered to organize twentv-five or thirty regiments of warriors war-riors of the various Sioux tribes in case of hostilities. We do not think it will be necessary to bring tho Indians into the field, although we do not doubt their willingness to fight, for they have an intense dislike for anything in tho shape Jlflu?V' laJ;S IVZ-Jitts Tea-., sonably good in the trenches, for that method of warfare is not unknown to j them. It; will be remembered that Chief Gall, who retreated to Canada after the Custer massacre in 1S76. dug a somewhat some-what elaborated system of trenches along the border in order that his braves might fight under cover, a style of fighting fight-ing greatly preferred by the Indians. This calls to mind the fact that a regiment regi-ment of Indiana joined the Union army during the civil war. The first and only battle in which they took part occurred oc-curred in a wooded country. True to their instincts and traditions each individual in-dividual Indian sought a tree for protection. pro-tection. But the enemy raked the timber tim-ber with artillery and the treeB began to tumble in every direction. "Poor Lo" was not used to such strenuous fighting and he took to his heels. That was the last of him during the civil war. lie could not stomach the "big bullets." |