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RED MEN AROUSED.TREMENDOUS MEETING OF THE SIOUXRESERVATION.After Eloquent Speeches by Their Chiefs They Vote to a Man to Refuse to Accede to the Recent Act of Congress—Chiefs’ Speeches.Standing Rock Agency, Dak., July24.—All is excitement on the Sioux reservation. Never since the granting of the great tract of land to the Indians at the close of the Sioux war, have the Indians been so thoroughly awakened or the white settlers so deeply interested. It has been supposed by a great majority of the reading people that the Sioux reservation, containing 22,000,000 acres of land, was open for settlement by the recent act of congress, but the clause making it necessary to secure the consent of three-fourths of the Indians may keep the land from the public domain for many years. The commission appointed by President Cleveland to confer with the Iudiatis has arrived.Nearly the entire 5000 Indians of this agency, are camped within two miles of Fort Yates, and additions to their numbers are arriving hourly. Without regard to the merits of the proposition made by the government and with no definite understanding of the proposed treaty, the tribes gathered here oppose the opening of the reservation. SittiDg Bull is the only well known Indian not present, and he will be brought. He left the agency for a hunt, but it is believed that the sly old trickster has been at work among the Indians of other agencies, sowing seeds of discord and urging them to oppose the measure.
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Columbus Enquirer Sun
Columbus, Georgia, US
Fri, Jul 27, 1888
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