Ghost Dance Inaugurated by Sitting Bull Hopes for Indian Return
Federal officials tracked the Ghost dances in late 1890 as Sitting Bull led the effort among Dakota Sioux bands. He urged a new movement promising the return of ancestral lands and the messianic deliverer, tapping into legends of Great Spirit guidance and a looming new push against white settlers.
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Northwest
Sitting Bull
Little Big Horn
Montana
Custer
Seventh Cavalry
Jumping Bull
Old Fort George
Willow Creek
Cheyenne River
Red Cloud
Missouri River
Platte
Fort Kearney
Fetterman
Bannack
Virginia City
Johnson
Black Kettle
WPA RESUMES WORK AT DEAD MAN'S BASIN
The narrative traces the Sioux resistance during the Messiah movement near Dead Man's Basin. It notes Porcupine's capture by Civil authorities in Custer county and reports White Gut's account of Sitting Bull's followers across the border, with tensions rising as winter ends and Sitting Bull and Crow Foot die in a mid-December clash.
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Custer County
Porcupine
Poplar
White Gut
Sitting Bull
Canada
Dakota
Kicking Bear
Bear Butte
Black Hills
Standing Rock
Crow Foot
Badlands
Montana State College Football Letters Awarded 1937
Jack Croft announces 19 Montana State football players earned letters for the 1937 season. Twelve earners are first timers, with others previously lettered. Names include Vollmer Butte Roth Manhattan Krevic Klein Murphy Great Falls Gustafson Bozeman Holloway Butte Yovetich Butte Feldman Terry Little Anaconda Strong Butte Field Scobey Dooley Anaconda and others Norris Willett Great Falls Kimberley Stevensville Mikkelson Boulder Cosner Bozeman Paris Miles City Wills Livingston. Jack Richardson of Bozeman named team manager.
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Montana State College
Jack Croft
Croft
Vollmer
Butte
Roth
Manhattan
Krevic
Klein
Murphy
Great Falls
Gustafson
Bozeman
Holloway
Yovetich
Feldman
Terry
Little
Anaconda
Strong
Field
Scobey
Dooley
Norris
Willett
Kimberley
Stevensville
Mikkelson
Boulder
Cosner
Paris
Miles City
Wills
Livingston
Jack Richardson
Montana Prison Population Rises to 552 on Dec 1
The Montana state prison held 552 inmates on December 1, up 19 from November, per Warden Theodore Bergstrom. Warm Springs State Insane Asylum housed 1,875 patients on December 1, according to the state board clerk’s figures.
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Montana State Prison
Theodore Bergstrom
Warm Springs
State Board of Examiners
Metals Mine Tax Yields Rise Over Previous Years
State metals mine tax revenue reached 253 169 11 this year up from 180 799 last year and 36 000 in 1933. The peak was 555 000 in 1930. The largest payment this year was 242 281 31 from Anaconda Copper Mining Co.
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Anaconda Copper Mining Co
State cash balance rises to over 8.7 million
The state's cash balance in banks at the close of November was $8,714,205, up $603,000 from the year before. Receipts in November totaled $2,846,844 while disbursements were $2,880,520, per State Treasurer Ray N. Shannon.
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Ray N. Shannon
Water bonds issued for Madison county Ruby river project
State water conservation bonds totaling 215000 were sold to the Public Works Administration via the Federal Reserve Bank in Minneapolis. The Ruby river project is estimated at 520000 and will be financed jointly by the state and federal governments.
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Madison County
Public Works Administration
Federal Reserve Bank
Minneapolis
Sitting Bull and the Ghost Dance Movement Rise
A profile of Sitting Bull detailing his rise as a religious and political leader, his embrace of the Ghost Dance to rally Sioux and allied tribes, and his clashes with U.S. authorities. The piece covers his background, 1868 treaty context, and the spread of the movement among the Sioux, Cheyenne, Gros Ventre, and other bands.
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Gros Ventres
Upper
Missouri River
Old Fort Belknap
Sitting Bull
Canada
Montana
Black Hills
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Messiah
Montana Lou” Grill
WPA
Dead Man’s Basin
State Water Conservation Board
Boards of County Commissioners
Golden Valley
Wheatland
Musselshell
Shawmut
Musselshell River
MWS
Teres
Anaconda Copper Mining Co. Lands Department
Standing Rock Agency
Nelson A. Miles
Clearcreek
Little Sheep Mountains
Hare
Episcopal Church
Fort Marion
Fortress Monroe
Ata
Roundup Coal Mining Co
The
Roundup, Montana
Earl Hungerford
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