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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Sioux Indians, or Dakota, Indians, (search)
he supplies; and there was naturally a feeling of dissatisfaction among the halffamished Indians. Inefficient agents also had been sent out by the government who had little regard for anything save their own personal gain, and not much was done by them to allay the general discontent. All these circumstances combined to favor the designs of Sitting Bull and his associates. A wide-spread conspiracy was formed, and plans were made for a general uprising in the spring. In September a Shoshone Indian, a medicine-man, began to predict the coming of an Indian Messiah. The Great Manitou had taken pity upon his suffering children. The Messiah would roll thirty feet of soil, timbered and sodded, upon their white oppressors, and all who escaped being smothered thereby would become buffaloes and catfish. But all the dead Indians would be restored to life; their hunting-grounds would be as in former days; herds of buffaloes and wild horses would again abound upon the prairies; the Indian
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Wyoming, (search)
g adjacent to Yellowstone Park set apart by proclamation of President Harrison......March 30 and Sept. 10, 1891 Shoshone and Arapahoe Indians cede to the United States 1,000,000 acres of land at 55 cents per acre ......Oct. 16, 1891 Five hundred cowboys set out to exterminate the cattle thieves in Wyoming and Montana......April 10, 1892 United States troops called out to suppress the cowboy disturbance......April 13, 1892 All persons engaged in resisting the laws and processes of the United States courts in Wyoming commanded to desist, by proclamation of President Harrison......July 30, 1892 Shoshone Indian reservation ceded to the United States......1893 Wyoming was without representation in the United States Senate from 1893. C. D. Clark, Republican, and F. E. Warren, Democrat, elected......June 22, 1895 Legislature provides for a State militia and encouragement of beet-sugar industry......1897 C. D. Clark re-elected United States Senator......Jan. 25, 1899