The Ghost-dance religion and the Sioux outbreak of 1890 : $b Fourteenth annual report of the Bureau of Ethnology, part 2.Mooney, James
Religion
The Ghost-dance religion and the Sioux outbreak of 1890 : $b Fourteenth annual report of the Bureau of Ethnology, part 2.
Mooney, James
Dakota Indians -- Wars, 1890-1891; Ghost dance
+Article 8.+ The provisions of the said treaty of 1868, except as
herein modified, shall continue in full force....
+Treaty of 1868+
+Article 8.+ When the head of a family or lodge shall have selected
lands in good faith and received a certificate therefor and commenced
farming in good faith, he is to receive not to exceed one hundred
dollars for the first year in seeds and agricultural implements, and
for a period of three years more not to exceed twenty-five dollars in
seeds and implements.
+Article 10.+ In lieu of all sums of money or other annuities provided
to be paid to the Indians herein named under any treaty or treaties
heretofore made, the United States agrees to deliver at the agency
house on the reservation herein named on (or before) the first day of
August of each year for thirty years, the following articles, to wit:
For each male person over fourteen years of age, a suit of good,
substantial woolen clothing, consisting of coat, pantaloons, flannel
shirt, hat, and a pair of home-made socks.
For each female over twelve years of age, a flannel skirt or the goods
necessary to make it, a pair of woolen hose, twelve yards of calico,
and twelve yards of cotton domestics.
For the boys and girls under the ages named, such flannel and cotton
goods as may be needed to make each a suit aforesaid, with a pair of
hose for each. And in addition to the clothing herein named, the sum of
ten dollars for each person entitled to the beneficial effects of this
treaty, shall be annually appropriated for a period of thirty years,
while such persons roam and hunt, and twenty dollars for each person
who engages in farming, to be used by the Secretary of the Interior in
the purchase of such articles as from time to time the condition and
necessities of the Indians may indicate to be proper. And if within
thirty years at any time it shall appear that the amount of money
needed for clothing, under this article, can be appropriated to better
uses for the Indians named herein, Congress may, by law, change the
appropriation to other purposes, but in no event shall the amount of
the appropriation be withdrawn or discontinued for the period named.
Article 10 further stipulates that each lodge or family who shall
commence farming shall receive within sixty days thereafter one good
American cow and one good well-broken pair of American oxen.
_Extract from tabular statement, showing articles of subsistence
received or to be received, rations as issued up to date, and
amount required to make the issues according to Article 5 of
treaty of February 27, 1877, in fiscal year 1891—At Cheyenne
River agency, Fort Bennett, South Dakota._
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