The "Messiah Craze."

T. J.-COMMISSIONER MORGAN

Publication: Government Printing Office, 1891, Washington

First Edition. Disbound. Pages 123-146. Disbound from the Sixtieth Annual Report of the Commissioner of Indian Affairs to the Secretary of the Interior, 1891. Addresses the rapid rise in the belief in an Indian Messiah and the adoption of the Ghost Dance by various western Indian tribes in 1889 &1890, and the resultant, related death of Sitting Bull and the massacre at Wounded Knee in December, 1890. The commissioner assimilates a thorough report using details reported by James McLaughlin, Indian Agent at Standing Rock Reservation; Indian Agent, Gallagher at Pine Ridge Reservation. The reports center on the activity within the Sioux Indians of North and South Dakota, and include sections on the following: Troubles Among The Sioux; Arrival Of Military; Death Of Sitting Bull; Indians Concentrate In The Badlands; Fight At Wounded Knee Creek; Agencies Placed On Military Surveillance; End Of Disturbances; Killing Of Lieut. Casey, And Few Tails; Causes Of The Trouble: Instructions To The Sioux. Pages 143-145, entitled Transferring The Indians To The War Department speaks to General Nelson Mile's repeated appeal to Washington to transfer absolute control over the Sioux Indians to the Department of War. An important report regarding the Ghost Dance problems, death of Sitting Bull, and Wounded Knee.

Inventory Number: 53192