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Show IQOO] GREAT PLAINS INDIANS 147 soon saw that the endless procession of on- coming whites foreboded no good for the future of their own race. The different tribes varied much in the degree of hostility. The Pawnee, though much dreaded by the early traders, 1 were, as a tribe, never at war with the whites, and frequently furnished scouts in the various difficulties that arose with other Indians. In the south the Comanche were particularly notorious and a constant source of trouble and danger, both to immigrant trains and border settlements. \ The Sioux, the largest and most important of the plains tribes, were also the cause of some of the most serious of the Indian wars. vEven as early as the War of 1812 they sided with the British against the Americans; but their worst outbreak was in 1862, when nearly one thousand settlers were killed in Minnesota. \ For the next six years there was almost constant war with the Sioux, Cheyenne, Kiowa, and other tribes of the region. \ The invasion of their country after the discovery of gold in the Black Hills again led to a serious outbreak in 1876- 1877, during which the Custer massacre took place. The last serious outbreak, due to dissatisfaction kt their treatment and theexcitement aroused by the reported coming of an Indian messiah, 2 was in the winter of 1890- 1891. 1 Chittenden, American Fur Trade, 869. 1 Mooney," The Ghost- Dance Religion " ( Bureau of Ethnology, Fourteenth Annual Report). |
