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Show 180 White later observed that, "At the Agency I found that Sour's excitement had been shared in by the entire tribe."17 The Indian people were wary for some time, and frightened Indian women and children fled when the Negro soldiers approached. The 1880's was a time of distress to American Indians generally. To the Sioux, the reservations on which they had been placed were particularly confining. Red Cloud, the son of the great leader of the same name, gained permisssion of the agent of the Oglalla Sioux at Pine Ridge, South Dakota, to take a "few friends" and visit the Shoshones at the Wind River Reservation. To the astonishment of Agent White, three hundred Sioux arrived at the Uintah Agency to "visit." The Utes made their visitors welcome, feasted them on beef and dog meat, and held large celebrations while they were there. The Sioux probably introduced the Utes to the Sun Dance at this time. There were many later contacts between the Oglallas and the Utes. In fact, the Utes would journey to South Dakota in 1906 following the opening of the Uintah-Ouray reservation to the White settlement. The Utes then attempted armed resistance to the United States, and went to the Oglallas for help. The tragedy at Wounded Knee had transpired in 1890, and the defeated and povertyridden survivors were unable to help 1 8 their Ute friends. The Utes returned in 1908 in despair. 17lbid. , p. 149. 18Floyd A. O'Neil, "An Anguished Odyssey: The Flight of the Utes, 1906-1908," Utah Historical Quarterly, Vol. 36, No. 4 (Fall, 1968), pp. 315-327. |