Post by gregor on Jan 27, 2019 11:33:41 GMT -5
The Cheyenne River Reservation was created by the United States in 1889 by breaking up the Great Sioux Reservation.
This Rez is the home of Mnikowozu, Itazipco (Sans Arcs), Sihasapa (Black Foot)and Oohenumpa (Two Kettle) Lakotas.
In 1872 the "American Church Press" (New York) published an article
"A Month among the Indian Missions and Agencies
on the Missouri River, and in Minnesota and Wisconsin"
"IT having been decided by the Executive Committee that an official visit by some of its members to the Indian Missions and Agencies placed under the care of the Church's Missionary organizations was essential to a correct understanding of their needs, a delegation consisting of Rev. J. A. Paddock, Mr. William Welsh, and the Secretary proceeded to Dakota in June last [1872], and made a tour of observation of all the stations on the Missouri River and our Missions in Minnesota and Wisconsin. Mr. Welsh and the Secretary, accompanied by Mr. Hinman, Gen. Stanley, U.S.A., commander at Fort Sully, and Mrs. T. S. Rumney, of Germantown, Philada., visited the Agencies and tribes on the Missouri as far north as Cheyenne River .....
This is the Cheyenne River part:
CHEYENNE AGENCY.
The river is high, and the rapid current cutting into and washing away the banks on which the Agency buildings stand, so, that carpenters are busy tearing down and removing the houses nearest the stream, as we step ashore and climb the crumbling ascent. Once more in hostile territory! We have now reached the uppermost limit of our Indian jurisdiction (so far as the Government is concerned) on the river. Since leaving Yankton Mission we have been entering the deeper shades of savage life. The dawn of civilization which we saw there, receding as we have moved northward, has been succeeded by the dim twilight at Crow Creek, the duskier shadows among the Brulés, and to-day we reach the confines of the black night of barbarism. Here we find, for the first time, a distinction made between the denizens of the soil, implying tendencies among them which must be carefully watched and held in subjection. The Indians living around and visiting the Agency from the interior, are classed as either "Hostiles" or "Friendlies," the former being the wandering nomads of the plain, who prefer their independence and a doubtful subsistence procured by hunting, to accepting the white man's food, and thereby, as they understand, becoming his vassals. The effort of the Government at this and other remote frontier posts is to create the appetite for such food as coffee, sugar, and flour, and so make the Indians dependent on our bounty until they are able to receive instruction in tilling the soil. There are at this Agency now about three hundred and sixty lodges, or a little over two thousand Indians, drawing rations from the Government. The tribes represented are the Two Kettles, the Minneconjous, the Sans Arcs, and a few Blackfeet, all Sioux or Dakota tribes. Most of those here are friendly Indians, the hostiles having nearly all departed on their spring hunt. Of the four or five hundred lodges that encamped about the Agency when they were here, nearly all drew rations. The principal chiefs now here are Long Mandan, Four Bears, Burnt Face, Swan, and Sting Foot.
The Agent at Cheyenne at present is Mr. T. M. Koues, of New York, who, however, is about to resign. This is perhaps the most difficult Agency to fill of any on the river. Mr. K. has administered the affairs of the post with firmness and strict fidelity to principle, and during his period of office has maintained unbroken relations of friendship and good-will between the Government and the Indians; He will be succeeded by Mr. H. W. Bingham, of Minnesota, a brother-in-law of Mr. Hinman, and a gentleman commended for the position by Bishop Whipple.
On the morning after our arrival, some of the chiefs expressed a desire to meet us in council. The request was granted, and the meeting was held in an old dance-house outside the stockade. We had been told that a young and saucy hostile, known as Bull Eagle, had announced his intention to declare his mind to the pale-faces; but no attention was paid to the threat.
.....
In the evening we were invited to the house of the Agency interpreter, where we met three of the principal men of the tribes living in this vicinity, viz.: Four Bears, a Two Kettle chief, whose band numbers forty-four lodges; Swan, a chief of the Sans Arcs, and a man of much intelligence and influence, and Chappelle, a leading half-breed. Nothing could have been better than the spirit exhibited by these earnest seekers after the light. Four Bears said they had been made ashamed that day by the conduct of a foolish young man. ......
Cheyenne River Agency
Chyenne River School abt. 1900
This Rez is the home of Mnikowozu, Itazipco (Sans Arcs), Sihasapa (Black Foot)and Oohenumpa (Two Kettle) Lakotas.
In 1872 the "American Church Press" (New York) published an article
"A Month among the Indian Missions and Agencies
on the Missouri River, and in Minnesota and Wisconsin"
"IT having been decided by the Executive Committee that an official visit by some of its members to the Indian Missions and Agencies placed under the care of the Church's Missionary organizations was essential to a correct understanding of their needs, a delegation consisting of Rev. J. A. Paddock, Mr. William Welsh, and the Secretary proceeded to Dakota in June last [1872], and made a tour of observation of all the stations on the Missouri River and our Missions in Minnesota and Wisconsin. Mr. Welsh and the Secretary, accompanied by Mr. Hinman, Gen. Stanley, U.S.A., commander at Fort Sully, and Mrs. T. S. Rumney, of Germantown, Philada., visited the Agencies and tribes on the Missouri as far north as Cheyenne River .....
This is the Cheyenne River part:
CHEYENNE AGENCY.
The river is high, and the rapid current cutting into and washing away the banks on which the Agency buildings stand, so, that carpenters are busy tearing down and removing the houses nearest the stream, as we step ashore and climb the crumbling ascent. Once more in hostile territory! We have now reached the uppermost limit of our Indian jurisdiction (so far as the Government is concerned) on the river. Since leaving Yankton Mission we have been entering the deeper shades of savage life. The dawn of civilization which we saw there, receding as we have moved northward, has been succeeded by the dim twilight at Crow Creek, the duskier shadows among the Brulés, and to-day we reach the confines of the black night of barbarism. Here we find, for the first time, a distinction made between the denizens of the soil, implying tendencies among them which must be carefully watched and held in subjection. The Indians living around and visiting the Agency from the interior, are classed as either "Hostiles" or "Friendlies," the former being the wandering nomads of the plain, who prefer their independence and a doubtful subsistence procured by hunting, to accepting the white man's food, and thereby, as they understand, becoming his vassals. The effort of the Government at this and other remote frontier posts is to create the appetite for such food as coffee, sugar, and flour, and so make the Indians dependent on our bounty until they are able to receive instruction in tilling the soil. There are at this Agency now about three hundred and sixty lodges, or a little over two thousand Indians, drawing rations from the Government. The tribes represented are the Two Kettles, the Minneconjous, the Sans Arcs, and a few Blackfeet, all Sioux or Dakota tribes. Most of those here are friendly Indians, the hostiles having nearly all departed on their spring hunt. Of the four or five hundred lodges that encamped about the Agency when they were here, nearly all drew rations. The principal chiefs now here are Long Mandan, Four Bears, Burnt Face, Swan, and Sting Foot.
The Agent at Cheyenne at present is Mr. T. M. Koues, of New York, who, however, is about to resign. This is perhaps the most difficult Agency to fill of any on the river. Mr. K. has administered the affairs of the post with firmness and strict fidelity to principle, and during his period of office has maintained unbroken relations of friendship and good-will between the Government and the Indians; He will be succeeded by Mr. H. W. Bingham, of Minnesota, a brother-in-law of Mr. Hinman, and a gentleman commended for the position by Bishop Whipple.
On the morning after our arrival, some of the chiefs expressed a desire to meet us in council. The request was granted, and the meeting was held in an old dance-house outside the stockade. We had been told that a young and saucy hostile, known as Bull Eagle, had announced his intention to declare his mind to the pale-faces; but no attention was paid to the threat.
.....
In the evening we were invited to the house of the Agency interpreter, where we met three of the principal men of the tribes living in this vicinity, viz.: Four Bears, a Two Kettle chief, whose band numbers forty-four lodges; Swan, a chief of the Sans Arcs, and a man of much intelligence and influence, and Chappelle, a leading half-breed. Nothing could have been better than the spirit exhibited by these earnest seekers after the light. Four Bears said they had been made ashamed that day by the conduct of a foolish young man. ......
Cheyenne River Agency
Chyenne River School abt. 1900
