Mr Voth, now stationed among the Hopi, at Oraibi, Arizona, was formerly superintendent of the Mennonite Arapaho Mission, at Darlington, Oklahoma. Being interested in the ethnology and language of the Arapaho, he gave close attention to the Ghost dance during the excitement, and has furnished much valuable information, orally and by letter, in regard to the songs and ritual of the dance.
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1—Colonel Carr; Brevet Major-General Willcox, department commander, and Major-General McDowell, division commander, in Report 1881—I, 140–154; 2—Report of Brigadier-General Ruger and of Special Agent Howard, with other papers in the same connection, 1888—I; 3a—General Howard in Report, 1877, I, 630; 3b—(Referred to) Report of scout Arthur Chapman, 1891—I, 191–194; 4—Short Bull’s sermon, 1891—I, 142–143; 5—Report of General Brooke, ibid, 135–136; 6—Report of General Miles, ibid, 147–148; 7—Miles, ibid, 145; 8—Miles, ibid, 146–147; General Ruger, 182–183; Lieutenant-Colonel Drum, 194–197; Captain Fechét, 197–199; 9—Miles, ibid, 147; 10—Miles, ibid, 147 and 153; 11—Miles, ibid, 147; Ruger, 184; Lieutenant Hale, 200–201; Captain Hurst, 201–202; Lieutenant-Colonel Sumner, 224; 12—Miles, ibid, 147; Lieutenant-Colonel Sumner, etc, 209–238; 13—Miles, ibid, 150; 14—Miles, ibid, 150; 15—Ruger, ibid, 185; Maus, ibid, 214; 16—Miles, ibid, 130; 17—Miles, ibid, 130; 18—Miles, ibid, 150; 19—Miles, ibid, 154; 20—Miles, ibid, 151; 21—Miles, ibid, 151; 22—Miles, ibid, 152; 23—Miles, ibid, 152–153; 24—Report of Lieutenant Getty, ibid, 250–251; 25—Reports of Colonel Merriam, Lieutenant Marshall, et al., ibid, 220–223; 26—Miles, ibid, 154; 27—Miles, ibid, 154.
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Welsh, Herbert. The meaning of the Dakota outbreak. (Scribner’s Magazine, ix, No. 4; New York, April, 1891, pages 429–452.)
Mr Welsh is president of the Indian Rights Association, and a close and competent observer of Indian affairs.
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Wickersham, James. Tschaddam or Shaker religion. (Manuscript published almost entire in [chapter viii] herein, together with extracts from personal letters on the same subject.)
Judge James Wickersham is the historian of the state of Washington and the attorney for the Shaker Indian organization. He has devoted considerable attention to the Indians of the state, and is now engaged in preparing a monograph on the Nisqually tribe.