Rensselaer Republican, Volume 23, Number 2, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 September 1890 — WHERE ARE THE INDIANS? [ARTICLE]

WHERE ARE THE INDIANS?

A special from Pierre, S. Dak., says: Considerable interest is manifested here as to the final outcome of the investigation as to the missing 2,000 Indians at Rosebud Agency. There is no denying the fact that the Indian population in South Dakota is fast dying off. Those who visit the agency frequently bring back the in formation that consumption and throa and lung troubles are thinning them, and that iSroriir Them are few who Have riot contracted disease of some kind. There can be no doubt about the demoralized condition of these people in every way, and It will be but. a few years before the Indians as a race will have disappeared from South Dakota. The severe winters and the efforts to have the Indians change their mode of living are responsible for this.