While we know our northern friends may not feel it, in the South, Spring is
here. So we thought we'd share a few of our gardening sites appropriate
for this time of the year. Along with gardening, there's grilling, and getting
ready to diet so that you can fit back into that bathing suit this summer!
Bloody Knife. A famous
Arikara warrior and chief, who was long in the Government service. His
father was a
Hunkpapa Sioux and his mother an Arikara. He was born on the Hunkpapa res.,
N. Dak., but as he approached manhood his mother determined to return to her
people and he accompanied her. Prior to the building of the Northern Pacific R.
R. the mail for Ft Stevenson, N. Dak., and other Missouri r. points, was carried
overland from Ft Totten. The high country E. of the Missouri was at that time a
hunting ground for hostile Sioux who had been driven w. from Minnesota after the
massacre of 1862, and so often were the mail carriers on this route killed that
it became difficult to find anyone to carry the mails. Bloody Knife under took
the task, and traversing the country with Indian caution almost always got the
mail through on time. Soon after the establishment of Ft Abraham Lincoln, N.
Dak., a number of Arikara scouts were engaged for service at the post, and of
these Bloody Knife was the chief. He was with Gen. Stanley on the Yellow stone
expedition of 1873 and took part in the fighting of that trip; he also
accompanied Custer to the Black Hills in 1874, and was one of the scouts with
Custer and Terry's expedition in 1876. On the day of the Custer fight he was
with the other scouts with Reno's command, took part in the effort made by them
to check the Indians who were charging Reno's force while crossing Reno cr., and
was killed there, fighting bravely. (G. B. G.)
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Handbook of American Indians North of Mexico, Frederick Webb Hodge, 1906
