PREPARER'S NOTE
Please note that this book contains a photograph of a burial platform, which some may find offensive. The elegaic tone, typical of the time, of much of the book may also annoy the modern reader. Some of the Indian interviews are still quoted today, however, and some of the photos are still reproduced.
[The Last Outpost]
The Last Outpost
The Vanishing Race
The Last Great Indian Council a record in picture and story of the last great indian council, participated in by eminent indian chiefs from nearly every indian reservation in the united states, together with the story of their lives as told by themselves--their speeches and folklore tales--their solemn farewell, and the indians' story of the custer fight By Dr. Joseph K. Dixon
Garden City, New York Doubleday, Page, and Company
1913
DEDICATION
To the man of mystery-- The earth his mother-- The sun his father-- A child of the mountains and the plains-- A faithful worshipper in the great world cathedral-- Now a tragic soul haunting the shores of the western ocean-- My brother the Indian
ILLUSTRATIONS
The Last Outpost The Approach of the Chiefs A Glimpse Backward The Sacrament of Winter The Lone Tepee Singing to the Spirits The Voice of the Water Spirits Trail of the Death Spirit A Leaf from the Indian's Book The Song of the Arrows An Imperial Warrior A Sunset in Camp Lighting the Smoke Signal Answering the Smoke Signal The Attack on the Camp Buffalo Thundered Across the Plains An Indian Home An Indian Burden Bearer An Indian Woman's Dress--Mrs. Wolf Plume The Flower of the Wigwam Little Friends A Bath in the Little Big Horn The Crown of Eagle Feathers Warriors of Other Days Chief Plenty Coups The Peaceful Camp Chief Red Whip The Pause in the Journey Chief Timbo The Downward Trail Chief Apache John Climbing the Great Divide Chief Running Bird Chiefs Fording the Little Bighorn Chief Brave Bear Skirting the Sky-Line Chief Umapine Down the Western Slope The Last Arrow Chief Tin-Tin-Meet-Sa Chief Runs the Enemy Scouting Party on the Plains Scouts passing under cover of the Night Map of the Custer Battlefield Chief Pretty Voice Eagle A War Council The War Party The Swirl of the Warriors Chief White Horse Chief Bear Ghost Chief Running Fisher Chief Bull Snake Mountain Chief War Memories Chief Red Cloud Chief Two Moons Here Custer Fell Custer Scouts White Man Runs Him--Custer Scout Hairy Moccasin--Custer Scout Curly--Custer Scout Goes Ahead--Custer Scout On the War Trail In Battle Line The Custer Battlefield Scouts on the March Sunset on the Custer Field The Reno Battlefield Two Moons as he fought Custer The Council Pipe Chief Plenty Coups Addressing the Council Chief Koon-Ka-Za-Chy Addressing the Council Chief Two Moons Addressing the Council An Indian Communion The Final Trail The Fading Sunset Vanishing into the Mists Facing the Sunset The Sunset of a Dying Race The Empty Saddle
CONTENTS
Acknowledgment INDIAN IMPRINTS A GLIMPSE BACKWARD THE STORY OF THE CHIEFS Chief Plenty Coups Chief Red Whip Chief Timbo Chief Apache John Chief Running Bird Chief Brave Bear Chief Umapine Chief Tin-Tin-Meet-Sa Chief Runs-the-Enemy Chief Pretty Voice Eagle Folklore Tales--Sioux Chief White Horse Folklore Tales--Yankton Sioux Chief Bear Ghost Chief Running Fisher Bull Snake Mountain Chief Mountain Chief's Boyhood Sports Chief Red Cloud Chief Two Moons THE STORY OF THE SURVIVING CUSTER SCOUTS White-Man-Runs-Him Folklore Tale--Crow Hairy Moccasin Curly Goes-Ahead-Basuk-Ore THE INDIANS' STORY OF THE CUSTER FIGHT THE LAST GREAT INDIAN COUNCIL INDIAN IMPRESSIONS OF THE LAST GREAT COUNCIL THE FAREWELL OF THE CHIEFS
Table of contents (by pages)
- 1: The Vanishing Race by Joseph Kossuth Dixon
- 2: Commissioner of Indian Affairs
- 3: Chief of the Southern Yankton Sioux
- 4: Signifying The White Man Runs Him
- 5: Blotted out their faith and despoiled their philosophy
- 6: Memorable hours these under clear Montana skies
- 7: Every Indian carries his individual medicine
- 8: The camp and the distant weird scaffold
- 9: In the crimson berries festooning the banks of the stream
- 10: And sometimes was worn as an armlet
- 11: Feathers are gathered from the eagles' flight
- 12: Their war implements were of the crudest sort
- 13: Among the clusters of sagebrush
- 14: The animal furnished food and clothing
- 15: The medicine tepee is distinct from all others
- 16: Fastened completely in its wooden bead covered cradle
- 17: Gathered from many widely scattered wigwams
- 18: The varying fortunes of the Gros Ventres
- 19: And they all jumped into the washout
- 20: Chief Timbo accompanied the Kiowa
- 21: Familiarly known as Apache John
- 22: The kind of tepees our fathers used to live in
- 23: In the language of the Cheyennes
- 24: My grandfather lived on a river called Walla Walla
- 25: We overtook the Sioux with the horses along about 3 P
- 26: During the Bannock or Sheep Eater war
- 27: We charged upon the Assinaboines
- 28: The Cheyenne scouts led the way
- 29: FOLKLORE TALE There goes a spider
- 30: The spider was very much afraid of him
- 31: And soon the buffalo were all gone
- 32: Part of the Sioux Nation was at Fort Laramie
- 33: The Sioux camped at the mouth of the Rosebud River
- 34: This kept up until he got to the end of the coulee
- 35: And the Flatheads consisted of the entire tribe
- 36: One of the geese yelled over to the spider 'Spider
- 37: The wolf finished eating the meat
- 38: The fight was on the Missouri River
- 39: Chief Bear Ghost is a Yankton Sioux
- 40: But I struck him with the tomahawk before he could shoot
- 41: We had a fight with the Piegans
- 42: We found ten Sioux and began to fight
- 43: Coming to camp from the sunrise
- 44: They went over to the tepee of the chiefs
- 45: We would take a long piece of rawhide
- 46: But rode right in among the Crees
- 47: After we got through fixing up our deadfall we returned home
- 48: This battle was at Pryor Creek against the Crows
- 49: Told for me at the cross marking the spot where Custer fell
- 50: But found out afterward that it was sugar and coffee
- 51: And came north to fight the Cheyennes
- 52: He served as scout under Terry
- 53: And this practice gave us training for the warpath
- 54: Honest white people and dishonest white people
- 55: ' Old Man Coyote was our creator
- 56: On hearing the report Custer hurried up his command
- 57: My brother was then on the warpath
- 58: And then a steamboat arrived bringing Bouyer
- 59: The Nez Perce chased the scouts back
- 60: Leader of the hostile Cheyennes
- 61: Faithful to the memory of Custer
- 62: When I got back to the packtrain
- 63: When I saw Custer sitting there
- 64: That evening the Mandans danced with us
- 65: Which is now called Reno Creek
- 66: Reno followed down the Reno Creek
- 67: We kept circling around Custer
- 68: About ten o'clock a band of Sioux
- 69: But I afterward heard that it was Reno
- 70: You would see the flash of the guns in the entrenchments
- 71: Dealing deathblows to the boys in blue
- 72: Many of my Cheyenne brothers were killed
- 73: On the day of the Custer fight
- 74: Reno remained on the hill until every gun was silent
- 75: Chief Plenty Coups then receives the chiefs
- 76: Took Chief Plenty Coups by the hand
- 77: Head chief of the Ogallalla Sioux Nation
- 78: He said Dear Brother Plenty Coups
- 79: On this day the council was for peace
- 80: I am glad to meet the chiefs of all the tribes
- 81: The kind of tepees our fathers used to live in
- 82: Because our old chiefs are fast dying away
- 83: CHIEF RED CLOUD I think this a great and good thing
- 84: It seems impossible how the trains go so fast
- 85: The coup stick with its trembling eagle feathers
- 86: The weird and spearlike cactus
- 87: Myriads upon myriads of low hung stars
- 88: Where the great composer lies in an unknown grave
