Rensselaer Democrat, Volume 1, Number 1, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 April 1898 — Sisseton Indians Indignant. [ARTICLE]

Sisseton Indians Indignant.

The Sisscton and Wahpcton Indians have been advised that they will receive from Washington 2.1100 cows and some seed wheat, to the value of SIOO,OOO. The report spread like wildfire; and a council has been called at Sisscton agency, in South Dakota, to protest against the Government issuing rations to them. They say they are full American citizens, and their contract with the Government .called for cash when they sold their lands.