Chapter XXVIII

[304] Ma-za-ku-ta-ma-ni was at this time the President of the Rev. Riggs’ Hazelwood Republic. This Republic was a rather unique attempt at self-government upon the part of Christianized Indians of the Yellow Medicine Agency under the guidance of the Rev. Mr. Riggs. It was “a respectable community of young men who had cut off their hair and exchanged the dress of the Dakotas for that of the white man.... They elected their president and other officers for two years, and were recognized by the Indian agent as a separate band of the Sioux.”--Hubbard and Holcombe’s _Minnesota in Three Centuries_, Vol. II, pp. 254-257.

[305] John Other Day won his title to fame in the annals of Minnesota by the part he took in the terrible Sioux Massacre of 1862. Certainly nothing else is needed to prove the worth of a Christian Indian than this act of his. The whites and Christian Indian refugees were in deadly peril of massacre at the Yellow Medicine Agency when to “John Other Day ... was entrusted the agency people and the refugees ... sixty-two souls in all, and as the ... revelry still came up from the stores on the bottom ... he moved off to the east with his white friends, crossed the Minnesota and skillfully covering the trail bore them away to safety ... without rest or delay he hurried back to the scene of the massacre to save more lives and assist in bringing the miscreants to justice.”--Robinson’s _A History of the Dakota or Sioux Indians_ in the _South Dakota Historical Collections_, Vol. II, pp. 278, 279.

[306] Flandrau’s _The Ink-pa-du-ta Massacre of 1857_ in the _Collections of the Minnesota Historical Society_, Vol. III, p. 396.

[307] Mrs. Sharp’s _History of the Spirit Lake Massacre_ (1902 edition), pp. 216-221, 224, 225. Mrs. Noble seems to have been killed in the southeastern corner of what is now Spink County, South Dakota.

[308] Mrs. Sharp’s _History of the Spirit Lake Massacre_ (1902 edition), pp. 231, 232.

[309] Mrs. Sharp’s _History of the Spirit Lake Massacre_ (1902 edition), p. 236.

[310] Mrs. Sharp’s _History of the Spirit Lake Massacre_ (1902 edition), pp. 238, 239.

[311] Mrs. Sharp’s _History of the Spirit Lake Massacre_ (1902 edition), p. 241. See also Flandrau’s _The Ink-pa-du-ta Massacre of 1857_ in the _Collections of the Minnesota Historical Society_, Vol. III, p. 398.

[312] Lee’s _History of the Spirit Lake Massacre_, p. 35.

[313] Lee’s _History of the Spirit Lake Massacre_, p. 36.

[314] Mrs. Sharp’s _History of the Spirit Lake Massacre_ (1902 edition), p. 249.

Concerning this costume Mrs. Sharp has since remarked that “the style and fit might not have been approved by Worth, but it was _worth_ everything to me.”

[315] Flandrau’s _The Ink-pa-du-ta Massacre of 1857_ in the _Collections of the Minnesota Historical Society_, Vol. III, p. 399.

[316] Flandrau’s _The Ink-pa-du-ta Massacre of 1857_ in the _Collections of the Minnesota Historical Society_, Vol. III, p. 399.

[317] Mrs. Sharp’s _History of the Spirit Lake Massacre_ (1902 edition), p. 257.

[318] For these speeches see Lee’s _History of the Spirit Lake Massacre_, pp. 37-41; Mrs. Sharp’s _History of the Spirit Lake Massacre_ (1902 edition), pp. 260-265.

[319] Lee’s _History of the Spirit Lake Massacre_, p. 43.

[320] Mrs. Sharp’s _History of the Spirit Lake Massacre_ (1902 edition), p. 268, 269; Lee’s _History of the Spirit Lake Massacre_, p. 44.