And what country can preserve its liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
Ruling His Son Patriarchial Chief of His Tribe Ends Vivid Career of Warrior Pawnee, Ok, Oct 3 - Ruling His Son, 102, Patriarchal chief of the Pawnees and former U.S. Army Indian scout, died here Wednesday. He had been ill since a trip last week to the Tulsa State Fair with other chiefs of the tribe and Maj. Gordon W. (Pawnee Bill) Lillie. The aged warrior came to Oklahoma in 1872 from Nebraska, where Indian tradition has it that he was born in 1826. He had fought in wars of the army against the Sioux and Cheyennes, under Maj. Frank North. Six years ago he returned to the old reservation of the Pawnees in Nebraska, in company with other Indians, to attend a celebration of the 50th anniversary of the battle of Massacre Canyon. Several Sioux Indians were there and it was with difficulty that Stacy Matlock, then president of the Pawnee tribal council, restrained Ruling His Son from violence. The battle of Massacre Canyon was the last fought between the Sioux and Pawnees. A buffalo hunting party of the Pawnees was ambushed by the Sioux and among the victims were one of Ruling His Son's wives and one of his children. He never forgave the Sioux. His enfeebled condition prevented Ruling His Son from meeting Senator Charles Curtis, Republican vice presidential nominee, when he was here last Saturday, although the old Indian had been planning on the visit for many days. Ruling His Son had never voted, but told other Indians he intended to cast his first ballot this year for "Cousin Charlie" Indian and religious funeral services will be held Thursday. [04 Oct 1928; Dallas Morning News - KT - Sub. by FoFG]
The Sioux have a bit of a rep among the other nations for being all in on attacking women and children. That was the hardon Blackhawk of the Sauk/Fox had until the day he died. The Sioux ambushed the Fox, as the Fox were going in to surrender, in the middle of the Mississippi River near Lacrosse Wi. at the direction of U.S. forces. Blackhawk did not dig that chit and like Ruling His Son, from then on had to be kept away from Sioux.
safe to say, one way or 'tuther he seen'm come and go...
ReplyDeleteDeservedly bitter, sad. Tree Mike
ReplyDeleteYou can be sure if he were alive today he'd be a better president than Biden.
ReplyDeleteThis man's story is incredible.
ReplyDeletehttps://www.findagrave.com/memorial/70301377/ruling-his-his_son
He was +/- 100 years old when this picture was taken.
His Obituary:
ReplyDeleteRuling His Son
Patriarchial Chief of His Tribe Ends Vivid Career of Warrior
Pawnee, Ok, Oct 3 - Ruling His Son, 102, Patriarchal chief of the Pawnees and former U.S. Army Indian scout, died here Wednesday.
He had been ill since a trip last week to the Tulsa State Fair with other chiefs of the tribe and Maj. Gordon W. (Pawnee Bill) Lillie.
The aged warrior came to Oklahoma in 1872 from Nebraska, where Indian tradition has it that he was born in 1826. He had fought in wars of the army against the Sioux and Cheyennes, under Maj. Frank North.
Six years ago he returned to the old reservation of the Pawnees in Nebraska, in company with other Indians, to attend a celebration of the 50th anniversary of the battle of Massacre Canyon. Several Sioux Indians were there and it was with difficulty that Stacy Matlock, then president of the Pawnee tribal council, restrained Ruling His Son from violence. The battle of Massacre Canyon was the last fought between the Sioux and Pawnees. A buffalo hunting party of the Pawnees was ambushed by the Sioux and among the victims were one of Ruling His Son's wives and one of his children. He never forgave the Sioux.
His enfeebled condition prevented Ruling His Son from meeting Senator Charles Curtis, Republican vice presidential nominee, when he was here last Saturday, although the old Indian had been planning on the visit for many days. Ruling His Son had never voted, but told other Indians he intended to cast his first ballot this year for "Cousin Charlie"
Indian and religious funeral services will be held Thursday.
[04 Oct 1928; Dallas Morning News - KT - Sub. by FoFG]
The Sioux have a bit of a rep among the other nations for being all in on attacking women and children.
DeleteThat was the hardon Blackhawk of the Sauk/Fox had until the day he died.
The Sioux ambushed the Fox, as the Fox were going in to surrender, in the middle of the Mississippi River near Lacrosse Wi. at the direction of U.S. forces.
Blackhawk did not dig that chit and like Ruling His Son, from then on had to be kept away from Sioux.