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Show THK 'ILIXSrit.VTEl) AMERICAS" OX TIIE INDIAN MESSIAH MOVEMENT. The JUuilraledAmirlcan contains a good deal of Interesting information informa-tion regarding; tbe religious movement move-ment among the Indians, culled and condense! from a large number ef sources. Its article is illustrated by a number of portraits of notable chiefs, the engravings being extra good. One of the likenesses is that or High Bear, one or tbe principal chiefs of the OgallailaSjWhose name has recently figured in thu dispatches. dis-patches. Jle is large featured, the noso being specially ponderous, a bile the eyeiare full an i expressive. expres-sive. The mouth Is tbe only feature which indicates a disagreeable trait, showing hauteur, aud impatience with anything that would collide with his will. One or the most striking portraits is that of Kit king Horse, thu Indian who asserts that he was carried in the spirit to heaveb. He also has a large, rather handsome fice, with mild Intelligent eyes, and specially pleasant appearance. Johnson Side, tiie Indian who is credited with innocently being the cause of the present agita ion, Is represented in his portrait as a man of gentle disposition, his face being devoid of the rugged aspect common com-mon to ids race. Ho Is kuiwn as the "Peacemaker." The countenance of Sitting Bull is a study. It is more like the face of a white man than of an Indian In its general contour, with the exception excep-tion of the high cheek bones. Native Na-tive intelligence and sagacity are expressed in every feature, as well as the deep lines of the face, impressed by habits of intense tboughtfulnes. He would be regarded anywhere among observant people, judging from his portrait, as a most unusual man, with many superior points of character. Unprejudiced persons who are willing to put themselves In bis place, can come to no other conclusion, on the basis or his career and tbe traits exhibited by him In the event which terminated bis life. This likeness In the American bears no resemblance to tbe miserable carricaturea which are printed in the dally journals. White Eagle, one or the leaJers in the religious dancus or the Indians,hasa characterless countenance. counten-ance. Tlie whole face, including tbe partly open mouth, disclosing the teeth, bespeaks tbe fanatic. We here quote fhim the article In the American, which is headed "The Bed Christ:" "Jut when iind where tho present craze arose is uneertain. The evidence at prevent obtainable indicate tbat It has resulted more from a procesi of evolution than from the preaching ef any one man. The fip-t Indian who preached the coming of tho Red Chilst in a lnannir that attracted at-tracted attention was Short Hull, or fe'iuing hull, an Arajnhoa who uiust not lw confounded with Sitting Hull, the Sioux chief who took part in the Custer umvtcror-ind who was alo one of tho most prominent leaders In the present agitation. This Silting Hull, or Short ItuII, arrived at the Sboshoua Agency, at Fort Washaki?, In Wyo-ming,abrjutayearago,andannotinctd Wyo-ming,abrjutayearago,andannotinctd thathchailsecnCbnst. ThcMcsslab.be said, told of his previous Hfo upon the earth, nineteen hundred jcars ago, and of how tbe wbito poaplo had ro fuwd to accept him, and shoncd the scars on his binds and feet where he had been nailed to thecros. He foretold fore-told the removal of the while men. and promised that the bturlo and other game should return In their former for-mer abundance. Then the Messiah gave the Ioditn bnlTjlo meat tu eat, and Sitting Hull fell asleep. When he awoke he found he Iiad been trans-iMrted trans-iMrted a long distance In his sleep. "Indians do not cmmunlca:u with ono another by Ict'crs but Hud their messages by niuncrs. I5y word of mouth Silting HiuTk story was made known to nianytrlbcs, andaenrago a sort of council was held at a place supposed lo be on the shore of Walker's Lake, Iu Western Neada. At this council the Messiah shoucd himself. Representatives of sixteen tribes are raid to hao been present, Near tbe camp tho sagebrush aad roc bashes had been cut off cloe to tbo ground over a circle perhaps tins hundred feet in diameter. Hero is one account of the appearance of the Christ: "The next day, as the son was getting get-ting low, the people all assembled about this circle, and presently a man was seen walking Into it. The people stood about until he had reached tho niiddlo of Uie circle, 'and then they went in to meet him. He stood inihe midst and talked to them, appearing to bo able to talk all the lsngnagr and to make himself understood by all the tribes present Ho told the (icoplc that things were, going to be changed; that the game and tho buflalo would' bo brought back; that they should again have their own country, and that the world should be turned up side down and all tho whites spill, out He closed bis speech by sajlng that in the night be should go up to heaven to see Cod. Next morning about nine or ten o'clock the people again gathered about the circle, and pri'sently the Messiah walked In unongthem. He told thcru that he had Just returned from heaven, where be rind seen Coil. Among the Indians present at this council was Porcupine, a Northern Cheyenne, who has since been ens of tbo foremost prophets of this new Messiah. His story is as follows:' "What I 'am going to asy Is the truth. The two men anting near nto were with me, and will bear witness! that I speak tbe truth. I and my people peo-ple bare been living m Ignorance utitit I went and found out the truth. All tho whites and Indians aro brothers, I was told there. I never knew this before. be-fore. The fish-eaten near Pyramid Lake told me that Christ had appeared ap-peared on earth again. Tbey said Cbr.st knew be was coming; tbat cloven of his children were also coming com-ing from a far land. It appeared that Christ had sent for me to go there, and tbat was why. unconsciously, I took my Journey. It bad been foreordained. foreor-dained. They told me when I got there that my Great Father was there also, but I did not know who be was. The people assembled, called a council, coun-cil, and the chiefs' sous went to sec the Great Father, who sent word to us to remain fourteen days In that camp, and tbat then he would come and we us. At tho end of two daj s, on the third morning, hundreds of people gathered at this place. They cleared a place near the agency In the form of a circus-ring, and we all went there. Just before sundown I saw a great many people (mostly Indians) coming dressed in w hlto men's clothes. The Christ was with them. They all formed in this ring and around it; they put up sheets all around the circle, as they had no tents. Just after dark some of the Indians told mo that Christ (Father) was arrhed. I looked around to find him, and finally sawhhu silting on ono side of tbe ring. He was dressed in a wh!t coat. The next morning lie told us he was going away that day, but would be back the next morning and talk to us. I beard that Christ bad been crucified anil I looked to see, and I saw a scar on his wrist and one on bis face, and ho seemed to be the man; I could net see his feet. He would talk to us all day. That evening even-ing n e all assembled again to see him depart. The following morning tbo Christ was back with us and wanted to talk with us. He said: 'I am tho man who made everything ou see around you. lam not lying to you, my children. I made this earth and everything on it. I lue ticcuto heaven and seen your dead friends, and havo seen my own Cither and mother.' Ho spoke to us about fighting, and laid tbat it was bod and that wo must keep from it; the earth was to be all good hereafter, that we most be friends with on-another. He said If any man disobeyed what bo ordered bis tribe would lie w Iped from tbe face of the earth. Ever since the Christ I speak of Ulkedto uio I have thought what he said was good. I have i-ecn nothing bad in it. When I got back I knew my people were bad, aud bad heard nothing of all this, so I got them together and told tbetnof it, and warned them to listen to It for their own good. I told them Just what I have told you here today." Porcupine's tale met with belief wherever he told lt,and other mission-ari mission-ari labored Incessantly with equal success. It w III bo observed that Por- eupine's account of the red Christ's message makes it one of peace. The Sioux changed its tenor tohostility towar.l the whites. They were much taken with the idea of tbe Messiah, but they thought tbey ought lo du something to help remove the w hues. The next development of the belief was furnished by Kicking IJartc, whose visit to heaven has been compared com-pared with that of TccumactTs brother, the Prophet. Kicking Horse is a Sioux. To blm are accredited the features of the craze involved in the belief of the resurrection of all dead Indians, and of the ovcrw helming of the whiles. His story is that be was taken to heaven through a helo In the clouds, and talked with the Great Spirit, who told him that his child-ten, child-ten, tho Indians, bad Buttered loni- enongb. and the time had comowhen they should occupy the earth again. Tbey must not kill ormoW the whites, tho Great Spirit said, for he himself would wipo them on" the lace of the earth by sending a wateof mud, twenty feet or more In depth, oer ths country. All dead Indians would lie restored to Hfo and there would be buffaloes and horses In plenty. Kicking Home further declared de-clared that while be was talking with the Great Spirit, ths devil apieared, in shape try UIL w ith Immense kneo-Joints. kneo-Joints. a monstrous mouth, and lone Ueth." Following is the account given In the American of the experience which Sitting Bull, or Short Bull, claims to have passed through: While hunting alono near the Shoshone Sho-shone Mountains he Isi-amc lost, and for a long time wandered alwut aimlessly. aim-lessly. Finally a stranguuvling came in cr him, and he involuntarily began to follow a certain star, which moved before him and led him many mile out Int the mountains. Jut at lay-htvak lay-htvak the -tar becamo stationary ocr a l-cautiful mountain valley, and he sank to rtsit on a couch "of moss. While hs rested, a s rango vision appeared l-efore him. He saw a great spirit dance,snd tbo participants were dead Arapahoe warriors, led by the dead chiefs or the past. Suddenly be was aw akened by a voice, and saw before be-fore him a strange being, dressed in a blanket of pure while. Tho strange 11 ng said that ho w as the same Ch rist who was upon thoeartb nineteen hundred hun-dred ca rs ago to k e the whito men, and that he would soon rerurn to save Hie red men. Tne whltm, who had so long persecuted and robbed the Indians In-dians w ould be driven out of the land acrosi tho oa, never to return again. Ml day the Messiah conversed with Silting Hull, revealing to him many things, alo showing him tho scars of nails in his hands and feet and the wound in his side. When night came on ths Messiah disappeared." |