| Show THE THE DA KOrAS the ant knowledge of enco of the powerful sioux and dakota was derived from the frenchi f o afar the example of the noble jesuit father quette navigated the browl and fleet at tho time the brave anil undaunted almost welded to their hordes would hunt from the as fir west a the great mountain and lie ll iyer that alewe into the pacific ocean put however magnanimous and jle bavage native aero rero towards he mack framed stranger they lived in sanguinary feud aub the scattered lapton concerning them central iq the century by the book the jenit out of the pompous name given abw in that work nado wea sioux wa farni ed the term the name which the german poet ler s W to the noble warrior of the americal Ameri caa chye death bong be ting g A deaper insight into their charac te adventurous life was ed about a generation ago by the good desmet long before any railroad tho communication with nebraska and kansie Kan or even with dakota and montana the mis of the cross penetrated into their terri torry first from the columbia river then from the apper missouri the report of his travels and adventures were highly but more interesting even fascinating was it for hie friends to listen to cheo he told of the dakota then his mild eye would glisten at the description of their brave and manly character how he armed with no other weapon than his crucifix had stepped amongst them and exhorted them to desist from the cruelties cruel ties of hie revenue alow he surrounded by their bows arrows and guns quietly and confidently used to lay down his head to rest and slumber and the youngest of the camors guarded his sleep and how he anally at the instance of the president of the united states dercook a winters rido through eastern oregon and northern idaho until he crossing a of montana and the alley of the yellowstone arrived at the banks of the little powder eiver they however regarded him as their father and when le eat in their midst on the slope of the big horn mountain the chief of the Un capapas would show him the spot whence bo took his gold quartz but it was a wild tribe of horsemen and when in father de the last time took leave from the camp of nil powerful kitting bull a cavalcade escorted him proud and noble as that which surrounded king wilhem at what has become of the well armed and proud people of warriors where are those tribes glorying and gau dying in many colored tattooing and glittering feathery ornaments where are the Yank tons and yank ton the and the construction of the union pacilio railroad tore down tho in visible partition had led from the whites their large brair aei once inhabited only by them and the innumerable buffaloes then came the invasion into the black fiille planned by columbus delano and executed by ausler and at last the bloody war of extirpation the cunning sitting bull and bis wily adjutant gall succeeded in defeats ing and destroying their mortal enemy ouster on the little big clorn river but larger bodies of troops came and the last ten bbous and were forced to the north across the canadian frontier there they staid over a year but at lait they ran short of ammunition and provisions and on jan ad 1881 they currens dered on poplar creek to the blue coats under major aiges |
