Post by Dietmar on Oct 25, 2019 9:17:45 GMT -5
Identifications of the men in this photo are not complete in all versions that have circulated so far.
These should be the correct names:
This is a newspaper article of 1880 covering their journey to Washington:
Drifting Goose En Route to Washington
to Enter a Complaint Against Hayt.
The St. Paul Pioneer-Press of the 7th
inst., contains the following:
Mr. Charles Crissey, the agent of the Sis-
seton Sioux, reached St. Paul yesterday in
charge of a delegation of Sweat Sips, or
James river band of Sioux, whose later his-
tory is familiar to the readers of the Pion-
eer Press. The party consists of May-ga
bob-du (Drifting Goose,) head chief of the
James river Sioux; Sinte yukan (the man
with the tail); Pute ca-tka (Left hand);
Gabriel Renville, and Smiley Sheppard,
interpreter. The purpose of the mission to
Washington is to secure a restoration to
this Indian band of about forty families the
lands, consisting of two or three townships,
of they were deprived through the mistake
of ex-Commissioner Hayt. It will be re-
membered that a year or two ago this band
was forcibly ejected from the little reserva-
tion which they had cultivated for many
years, and driven by Cap. Dougherty to
Crow Creek agency. This was regarded by
all who were familiar with the circum-
stances as an indefensible outrage upon a
handful of good Indians, and when the facts
came to the knowledge of the government,
Drifting Goose and his band were allowed
to return to their James river home only to
find their cultivated lands in the hands of
white squatters who could not be peaceably
dispossessed. In this emergency the in-
jured Indians were furnished with homes on
the Sisseton reservation, Agent Crissy in
the meantime being ordered to personally
inspect the lands lately occupied by them
on James river, and after obtaining the
facts, to report the same to the president,
which he is now prepared to do. It was
falsely claimed that these lands were ceded
to the general government under some
treaty, but Drifting Goose, Gabriel Renville
and other responsible parties are ready to
prove that this is either a mistake or a trick
under which the Drifting Goose band could
be removed long enough to enable the white
settlers to slip and occupy the ground
which had long been brought under the
plow. All the Indians ask is the restora-
tion of their land or adequate compensa-
tion for the property which had been stolen
from them.
(Daily Press and Dakotaian, April 09, 1880)
These should be the correct names:
This is a newspaper article of 1880 covering their journey to Washington:
Drifting Goose En Route to Washington
to Enter a Complaint Against Hayt.
The St. Paul Pioneer-Press of the 7th
inst., contains the following:
Mr. Charles Crissey, the agent of the Sis-
seton Sioux, reached St. Paul yesterday in
charge of a delegation of Sweat Sips, or
James river band of Sioux, whose later his-
tory is familiar to the readers of the Pion-
eer Press. The party consists of May-ga
bob-du (Drifting Goose,) head chief of the
James river Sioux; Sinte yukan (the man
with the tail); Pute ca-tka (Left hand);
Gabriel Renville, and Smiley Sheppard,
interpreter. The purpose of the mission to
Washington is to secure a restoration to
this Indian band of about forty families the
lands, consisting of two or three townships,
of they were deprived through the mistake
of ex-Commissioner Hayt. It will be re-
membered that a year or two ago this band
was forcibly ejected from the little reserva-
tion which they had cultivated for many
years, and driven by Cap. Dougherty to
Crow Creek agency. This was regarded by
all who were familiar with the circum-
stances as an indefensible outrage upon a
handful of good Indians, and when the facts
came to the knowledge of the government,
Drifting Goose and his band were allowed
to return to their James river home only to
find their cultivated lands in the hands of
white squatters who could not be peaceably
dispossessed. In this emergency the in-
jured Indians were furnished with homes on
the Sisseton reservation, Agent Crissy in
the meantime being ordered to personally
inspect the lands lately occupied by them
on James river, and after obtaining the
facts, to report the same to the president,
which he is now prepared to do. It was
falsely claimed that these lands were ceded
to the general government under some
treaty, but Drifting Goose, Gabriel Renville
and other responsible parties are ready to
prove that this is either a mistake or a trick
under which the Drifting Goose band could
be removed long enough to enable the white
settlers to slip and occupy the ground
which had long been brought under the
plow. All the Indians ask is the restora-
tion of their land or adequate compensa-
tion for the property which had been stolen
from them.
(Daily Press and Dakotaian, April 09, 1880)
