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JOHN OTHERDAY
Out in a cow pasture, some twelve
miles from Wilmdt, S. D., there is a
lonely grave.
There is no headstone to tell who
lies here. There are no lovingly-plant-
ed flowers to brighten the spot. Two
or three small stones mark the loca-
tion—stones which a child could roll
down into the creek which flows by.
Yet in this little-noticed, unkept
grave lies the dust of John Otherday,
hero.
He was a Wahpeton Sioux, born at
the beginning of the Nineteenth cen-
tury, and his early manhood was not
what we would expect from heroes.
Passionate and revengeful, he killed
several of his tribesmen in drunken
rages. Here, surely, was not the ma-
terial from which good citizens are
made.
Bravery, however, was a virtue
which Otherday always possessed. Tn
one of the fierce battles between those
life-long enemies, the Sioux and the
Chippewa, he carried a severely-
wounded tribesman from the field, and
later in the day saved the life of an-
other. Thus the scales might be said
to balance, for though he killed on one
hand, he heroically saved on the other.
I do not know what changed Other-
day into the man he became. At any
rate, when he decided to become as
nearly like a white man as an Indian
could, he went at the task with the
intensity he showed in everything. He
became a devout church member, and
dressed in white man’s clothing.
This, perhaps', 'was not unusual in'
itself, but the “Spirit Lake massacre”
proved Otherday to be a sincere friend
of the white man. Inkpaduta, a hos-
tile, renegade Sioux, with his follow-
ers killed the Settlers at Spirit Lake,
S. D., and carried oft two white wom-
en, Abigail Gardner (later Mrs. Sharp)
and Mrs. Noble. Otherday and anoth-
er Sioux, a chief, offered to attempt
a rescue, and followed the dangerous
band at the risk of their own lives.
Mrs. Noble died before the friendly
pair won-through to them, but Miss
Gardner was released.
Otherday was fifty-six years old at
this time. The exciting events of his
life, especially this latest exploit, were
enough for one person to have experi-
enced, surely. He had married a whit$
woman, and lived comfortably in a
house, built for him by the agent of
his reservation. It is unlikely that he
expected further adventures—he had
certainly earned a peaceful life for
his later years—and it is doubtful if
he ever longed for other deeds of valor
to perform.
But his service was not over; in
fact, it may be said to have scarcely
begun. The Sioux outbreak of 1862, in
which hundreds of Minnesota settlers
were tortured and killed, aroused the
entire region. Somthing must be done,
and done quickly.
John Otherday, Sioux, one of the
very tribe whose anger had flamed
forth in such dreadful might, heard
the call again. He was sixty-one
years old, but he knew that he must
answer. There was a wilderness be-
tween the besieged settlers and Saint
Paul, where they would be safe. The
people needed a guide, lest they be-
come lost and die as they fled.
Sixty-two white persons were gath-
ered by Otherday. He led them
through to Saint Paul safely, and then
turned back to the frontier to offer
every aid at his command.
General Sibley and his_ troops hav-
ing been ordered to quell the uprising,
Otherday became attached to them as
a scout, fighting against his tribesmen.
It is said that “no person in the field
compared with him in the exhibition
of reckless bravery.” He dressed all
in white, and it was his custom to go
so far in advance of the troops that
they often fired at him, mistaking him
for an enemy.
Remember the age of John Other-
day ; it seems incredible that he could
kill several younger men, Sioux war-
riors, and take .their horses, hut a man
who had lived through adventures
enough to fill several lives, found this
feat not so difficult.
At the close of this war, the valiant
old Sioux was granted the sum of
$2,500 by congress. He bought a farm,
and tried to succeeded at agriculture,
but it was too late for the war horse
to begin drawing a plow. Fimlfly he
moved to the Sis'seton and Wahpeton
reservation, where he lived only a
short time, dying of tuberculosis, and
was buried on the land which he had
hoped to some day own.
There is a monument at Morton,
Minn., erected in honor of Otherday
and the three other Christian Indiana
who showed their loyalty so heroically
during the Sioux uprising. But only
now, more than sixty years after his
death, a movement has begun to mark
the grave in a fitting manner.
I suggest an epitaph for the stone:
“Here lies the body of an Indian,
which enclosed the soul of a white
man.”
(©. 1932, Western Newspaper Union.)
“Inland Islands”
Britain’s “inland islands”—land sit-
uated in one county but under the jur-
isdiction of another—will soon disap-
pear, according to recent reports.
Neighboring counties in which these
“islands” exist have decided to ex-
change their “foreign” territories. The
change will simplify administration
work, but it is meeting some opposi-
tion from those who for sentimental
reasons regret the passing of this “pe-
culiarly English anomaly.”
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Lane, Ella E.; Plageman, Cecile & Plageman, Annie Louise. Shiner Gazette (Shiner, Tex.), Vol. 39, No. 46, Ed. 1 Thursday, October 20, 1932, newspaper, October 20, 1932; Shiner, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1148058/m1/3/: accessed July 4, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Shiner Public Library.