Democratic Sentinel, Volume 20, Number 6, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 February 1896 — Pine Ridge Pow-Wow Opened. [ARTICLE]

Pine Ridge Pow-Wow Opened.

-v'J’hti great .Pine Ridge powwow convened at Pine Ridge, Neb., Monday. Foi some months a private subscription has been circulated soliciting aid among th« Indians to send delegates to Washington to confer With the authorities in referenct to matters pertaining to the Pine Ridgt agency. . It was said 7,000 Indians would be present at the powwow, hut there is no probability that so large a number will attend. Not 700 got in Monday. At this season zero weather is probable any day, and the Indians for this reason will not travel much. The scene of the meetipg is Wounded Knee, twenty miles distant. The Roman Catholic Church in the province of Quebec lias always beer against the Liberal party and so emphatically has its strength been thrown into recent political contests in that province in favor of conservative members of Par liament that steps are now being taker to lay the matter before the Vatican ir the hope that his holiness will send a papal delegate to Canada to bring the bishops into line and forbid the pulpit being made the hustings for favorite political candidates.