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.S.troops sent to Alaska in 1868, follow-ing its purchase from Russia.He served there for more than two years, primarily on KodiakIsland.He later wrote a series of thirteen articles entitled  Men and Things in Alaska for theCitizen, a weekly newspaper published in Minneapolis and St.Paul.See Foreman,  GeneralEli Lundy Huggins.AGENCY OPERATIONS 217church among the Poncas, and speaks the language of that tribewith great ease.He entertained us last night for several hours inaccounts of their tales and myths which he has learned while livingwith them.Maj.Roberts, I have already described.January 7th 1881.Mr.Allen, Mr.Haworth, Mr.Stickney and Genl.Miles came in from the Agency with the Indians & interpreters whoare to accompany us.Day has been very cloudy.At 4 in the after-noon, left for Kansas City, Mo., viâ Newton.On the train met myclass-mate, 1Lt.Chs.Morton, 3d Cavalry, returning from Santa Fé,New Mexico to Saint Louis, Mo: also met Lt.[James] Allen, 3d Cavy.and Hon.Mr.[Miguel Antonio] Otero, delegate from New Mexico.2Our cars were filled with a large force of laborers on their way tothe Rio Grande to work on the extensions of the Southern PacificTranscontinental Railway system.At Kansas City, Mo., met the Hon.J.Sterling Morton, of Nebraskaand Mr.William Chambers Q[uarter].M[aster].D[epartment].,Omaha, Neb.2.Bourke means former delegate.Miguel Antonio Otero served two terms as delegate inthe 1850s, but was defeated by Tranquilino Luna in a bid for election in 1880.See Lamar,New Encyclopedia, 836.Chapter 12&'&'&'&'&'The Poncas Before Removalanuary 8th 1881.Reached Fort Omaha, Nebr., Mr.Stickneygoing to Genl.Crook s Qrs., Mr.Allen to Major Roberts andJCaptain Huggins to mine; the other members are to meet usat Council Bluffs.This night was fearfully cold on our way to theFort, the thermometer indicated -25°Fahr., but fortunately therewas no wind.In the papers to-day appeared a telegram to Presdt.Hayes, purporting to have come from the Ponca Commission, an-nouncing that at the convention held in Indian Territory, the Poncashad  enthusiastically and unanimously approved agreement madewith the delegation lately in Washington.This telegram it appearsemanated from Mr.Stickney who endeavored to palliate his lack ofdiscretion by saying that he had sent it to the President as a  per-sonal message.At 9 P.M., this day the thermometer indicated -28°Fahr.January 9th 1881 Remained at HdQrs.during morning, attending toofficial business &c.Day very cold.Left in the afternoon for CouncilBluffs, Iowa, where we staid overnight at the U.P.R.R.dépôt, meetingthe others of our party, Indians and all.This night was so cold thatmercury froze in the Bulb.January 10th, 1881.Left Council Bluffs, Iowa for Running Water,218THE PONCAS BEFORE REMOVAL 219Dakota, going by way of Chicago and North-Western R.R., to Mis-souri Valley Junction, thence by Sioux City & Pacific to Sioux City,Iowa, and from that point following along branches of the Chicago,Milwaukee and Saint Paul R.R.As I was seated alongside of Revd.Mr.Riggs and Revd.Mr.Dorsey, our conversation naturally driftedto Indian matters and especially to Indian therapeutics.I gavethem an account of the sickness and cure of Chimahuevi-Sal, oneof the prominent chiefs of the Apache-Yuma tribe in Arizona, livingat Camp Date Creek1 in that Territory.This Indian, a handsomespecimen of physical strength and beauty, was  taken down with aviolent attack of inflammation of the lungs, complicated with everyvariety of pulmonary and bronchial trouble, fever and indigestion.There were two or three Army Doctors at the post who jumped atthe chance of experimenting with the case.They certainly displayed no niggardliness in the amount of medi-cines they gave their patient: commencing with a syrup of squillsand parejovis[?], they put him through the whole Dispensatory, nowgiving him a dose of ipecae, now a little Tolns Cod liver oil in largerquantities to furnish heat inwardly and Croton Oil to furnish it onthe outside.Then they gave him warm baths and applied mustardpoultices to his feet.But no effect was perceptible the sick mankept getting worse and worse, his cheeks were hollow, his voicetremulous and his eyes shone with the gleam of approaching dissolu-tion.More than that, most wonderful thing of all, the poor Indian hadno appetite.After swallowing half a bottle full of cod-liver oil, threeor four teaspoonsfull of ipecae, taking four (5) [sic] grains quininepills, having a pint of Croton oil rubbed on his chest and experi-encing the stimulating effects of a mustard foot bath, Chimahuevi ssystem  failed to respond , as the medical men termed it, and herefused to notice the food set before him.There was but one thingfor our gentlemanly Sawbones to do and they did it; they declaredChimahuevi s time had come; that he hadn t many more hours tolive and that he should settle up all his mundane affairs and turnhis thoughts to the joys awaiting him on the Shining Shore.ButChimahuevi-Sal didn t seem to enter very enthusiastically into theShining Shore business; to be candid, he most decidedly  bucked1.Camp Date Creek, originally designated Camp McPherson, was established sixtymiles southwest of Prescott to guard the reservation for the Yavapais, Mojaves, and affili-ated groups.It was abandoned after the reservations and military posts were consolidated.Atlshuler, Starting with Defiance, 25 26.220 THE PONCA QUESTION CONTINUESagainst the idea of joining the Angel Band.This world was plentygood enough for the likes of him and he purposed remained [sic]in it to the very utmost limit of possibility.So he summoned the head medicine man of his nation.It must be understood thatamong the Indians of Arizona, a medicine man can  pitch in andslay with perfect immunity from responsibility until he has plantedseven of his victims under the daisies, or rather under the crocuses,because they don t have daisies in that part of the country.His lossof popularity in the tribe is then intimated to him by a Committeewho take him and roast him to death; that is if they can catch him.As a general thing, medicine men who have buried six patientsprefer to retire from active practice and leave the field to youngermen; this is a rule which might be observed with advantage in ourboasted higher civilizations, but for some reason, our medicinemen are not limited as to the number of their victims and conse-quently never know exactly when to retire from the front ranks ofprofessional life, as their Apache-Mojave brethren do.2 As may besupposed, our American practitioners were fearfully discomfited byChimahuevi s action in sending for the Apache-Mojave Doctor andbecame very much exasperated at such Lieutenants as ventured toask in a solemn kind of way if the Indian had been  called in forconsultation with them.Such a query whenever made, and it wastruly astonishing how many lieutenants were making it about thattime, was always sure to produce an explosive torrent of expletivesagainst all the dash-dash-dash-dashed Indians in America and all thedash-dash-dashed idiot Lieutenants in the U.S.Army [ Pobierz caÅ‚ość w formacie PDF ]