Show W WP MEMNON EN PAI I 1 ANID HT 16 A PA r A 7 ASHINGTON A litho aw graph that has survived the attacks of at time V T shown gen nelson A 11 miles and col cot W F wi cody mounted on spirited 7 horses and overlooking from a bluff the last great camp of the sioux indiana indians when corn com ing in from the warpath the sioux surrendered to gen miles allies in janu ary 1891 but they came very near ft a few day days after the surrender to the point of breaking away once more the etory of it Is this gray dawn was breaking at the pine ridge agency when an indian runner broke headlong into the vil lage of the surrendered sioux he ile stopped at the tepees of the prin cipal warriors long enough to shout a message and then leaving the camp where its end rested against an abrupt hill he made his way with a plainsman stealth to the group of agency buildings cir circling clint which ani extending tending ei beyond crowning ridge after ridge were ere the white sibley tents of the soldiers breakfast was forgotten in the troubled camp of the sioux the chiefs and the greater braves rushed to quick council and the lessor lesser warriors the square and the children stood waiting with dogged patience in the village streets the council was over an old chief shouted a word of command that was caught up and passed quickly to the farthest outlying tepee an army might have learned a lesson from that which followed the short sharp order mounted men shot out from the village and as fast as fleet footed ponies pressed to their utmost could accomplish the distances every out lying ridge was topped with the fig ure of oder and horse silhouetted against the morning sky every warrior had his eyes en on the camps camp of the white soldiery sud denly from the cast east of the th agency where liv lay the sixth cavalry there came a trumpet call that 1 welled and swelled and ended in one ringing note that ang sang in and out of the valleys and then subdued to softness floated on to be lost in the pral prairie le wilderness beyond the motionless figure of one of the hilltop sen dinels was moved to instant life A signal ran from ridge to ridge finally to be passed down ward into the camp of the waiting sioux who sprang into action at its coming the pony herds of the sioux were mere grazing on the hills to the nest meat unrestrained of their freedom by lariat or herdsman in number they nearly equaled the people of the village a few ponies for emergency use only having been kept within the camp ithon the ponies in the village jumped waiting warriors who broke out of the shelter of the tepees for the hills where the herds were foraging on the snow covered bunch grass it but a ps aing moment before emery pony in that great grazing herd was headed for the village the animals were er 0 as obedient to the word ot of command as is a brave brae to the word of hia his chief during the gt gathering of the ponies the women of the camp had slung their papooses osea to their backs had collected the camp utensils and were standing ready to strike the tepees while the braves blanketed and with rifles in their hands between the village and hail had thrown the camp camps of the sold lors of oen gien miles allies the sioux who had surrendered less than a to stampede from week before were preparing and to make necessary the repeating the agency campaign that had lasted for months the of a great brought word that indian runner had bad had ordered his soldiers to arms chief miles and that tre surrendered early in the morning massacred to the lait last man sioux ner ere to be woman and child the medicine men had told the indians that to be thir th ir fate and the runner runners a word this was courier with a belief miles sent a found ready but they would chiefs reassuring message to the c I 1 not belleve belle e i hill kill before they were to ad the th braves prepa for the readiness in and everything was killed while the warrior flight of the squaws and papooses oses lusting following should fight tight the soldiers for 0 r tho the sioux blood a review of the force fore es had planned gen miles of the campaign n and it in ta the held field a as a last act and the match the order for the gathering fathering wae of massacre taken as an order lag ag atut bad had been v the tho sioux bloux C 01 trumpet and bu gle call calls of boots and saddles Bad dies and assembly asee robly b burdened u r the air the troopers tro opera and dough boys had fallen in strong the column started west with flaga flag and gui gul dons fluttering the head of the command the greatest that bad had been gathered together up to that time since the daya days of at the civil war react reached led the bluff above the sioux village A bout would have started the stam pede pf of the savages oa a shot would have been the signal for a volley from the warrior warriors lying be tween the white column and the vil inge the soldier soldiers passed on and the review began but out on the hills the indian sentinels still stood and between the marching whites and the village were the long lines ot of braves still suspicious auspicious and still ready to give their lives for the women and children in the heart of the valley what a tellow was avas that on the snow covered south dakota plains that january morning 15 years agot ago gen miles on his great black horse watched the 5 soldiers pass soldiers that had stood the burden of battle and the hardships of a winters campaign and bad had checked one of the greatest indian uprisings of 0 history the first infantry led by col cot shatter who afterward was in co irmand in front of santiago was there that day V henry now lying in peaceful arlington beliet apt gefry ry rode at the head of his black troopers the buffalo soldiers sold lera of the sioux capt alien allen W capron was there with the battery that afterward opened the battle at santiago the seventh cavalry was there two of its troops is and K having barely enough men left in the ranks to form a platoon these two troops had borne the brunt of the lighting fighting at wounded knee a month mouth before when 90 men of the seventh fell killed or wounded before the bullets of the sioux N aheu hen the two with their attenuated ranks rode by the reviewing general removed hie his cap an honor oth berwise paid only to the colors of his country the column colum n filed past broke into regiments then into troops and companies and the word of dismissal was given the indian sentinels on the ridges signaled the camp in the valley in another minute there an a stampede but it was only that of the thou thousand randi of sioux ponies turned loose and eager to get back to their breakfast of bunch grass on the prairies two to strike the sto i c watched the review that day old two was one or the warriors who went out with a following of brava on the warpath the month previous two strike wore no ghost shirt lie ile was above such superstition even though he lie took ro pains to urge his comrades to follow his shirtless example two strike was glad of the craze that had brought war for or be he hated the whites harder than thin be hated anything on earth except the pawnees Paw nees th thu L hereditary enemy of his people two strike knew in bis his coil sail that the buffalo were not coming back as the m medicine men had bad declared and that no lies messiah siah was to be raised to lead bis his people against thy the pale faces to wipe them from off the face of the continent abat be he did know woe was that be he was to have one more chance to strike at the c on the lands of his people be tore fore the enfeeblements ot of old age took the strength from hie his arm two strike vae was a great warrior he ile had fought on an many a field and he had bad won his bl name tram corn the overcoming ot of two warrior foes who bat ha I 1 at tacked him when he waa was alone on the prairie single handed be he bad had fought and killed them and two strike be had bad been from that day lie ile wae was the lender leader in the last battle which took place be tw en hostile banda bands of on the plains of america for year years without number the two na eions the sioux and the pawnees Paw nece nees bad bated each other in one of coopers novela novels hard heart a pawnee pa W taunts a sioux thus since water waters ran and tree trees grew the sioux has found the pawnee on hie his warpath karpath war path tue the fight in which T two tn n strike wae was the leader of the sioux waa was fought against the pawnees on the banka of a little stream known aa as the frenchman in nebraska la in the year 1874 in the valley of the platte river the buffalo were plenty but the pawnees bad had said that the sioux should not hunt there and they defied them to come the pawnee doge dogs called the sioux women said the atory storyteller teller and old two strike encored sneered it was when the grass was at iti its beet beat that the sioux started for the country of the pawnee the teller of the tale made no secret of the intention of the sioux to ex exterminate the he pawnees Paw nees sparing neither women nor children it the chance for their killing presented art belted itself I 1 iwo wo strike and hie his sioux reached the edge of the buffalo country and there th aly ty waited opportunity they did not have to wall wait long runner told them that the pawnees in full streng ti had started on a preat great hunting expedition ltd 10 by sky chiat a noted warrior when the name of sky I 1 chief fell from the lipe lips of n the interpreter interpret dr old T two w t strike smiled at aid d closed hie his flat the sioux 1 left eft their encampment and struck into the heart of the hunting country there a scout told them that the enemy wae was encamped in a prairie guch lih and that their women and children were with them to care tar for the hides bides and for the drying of the meat of the buffalo two strike led hie his men by a way around as an the interpreter put it coming finally to a point less than half a euna suns distance from the camp in the valley the sioux struck a email herd of buffalo and they goaded the animals before them right up to the mouth of the gulch when ih be buffalo were headed straight irto the valley tha sioux pricked the hindmost with arrows a and the herd went headlong toward tre te encampment of the pawnees Paw nece nees who I 1 were foolish men and did not watch for aa an enemy when the saw the buffalo they mounted their ponies rod and followed them out through the far ar end of the valley to the level plain leaving the women and children behind then the sioux went in to the slaughter par spar ing neither infancy cor nor age and they had almost ended the killing when the pawnee braves returned then followed the last great battle which has been fought on the plains between tribe tribes of red men the storyteller tory teller in the tepie at pine ridge did not gay say so but it Is known from the account of a white man adabel ellis who knew the circumstance circumstances cum stance stances that the pawnee pawnees fought that day as they had always fought bravely and to the destri sky chief thi pawnee rode we out in frant frunt of hie his men shook hia his hand and called out that two strike the dakota waa was a coward enward thea then two strike called back that the pawnee was a dogs doles whelp and he rode out armed with ha his knife which wa was the only weapon sky chief held the two to leaders met and fought 1 they I bey dis mounted turned abir ponies loose and grappled the story teller lingered not on the details of the fight he lie said imply simply I 1 the rawness heard sky chiefs death cry the tale ended two strike roee rose oared h his Is right arm drove Us lis hand downward and then upward and smiled |