“Old Indian Community”

1878

Here on Cutmeat and Phister Creeks is an Indian community that dates back to 1878 when Rosebud Agency, 15 miles SE was established. From this point with 2 miles SW on Cutmeat Creek was the Trade Dog Village and school; half a mile west was the Hollow Horn Bear Village; High Hawk’s Village was 1 mile N on Cutmeat and Phister Creeks and 3 miles NW on Phister Creek was He Dog Village, council house and school. An Issue house on Cutmeat, just west of the present Parmalee, served these and other communities. Surveyed in 1896 by C.H. Bates these villages were flourishing and many a curious Indian boy followed the surveyors about. Today the center of the community is the modern He Dog School near High Hawk’s old Village. There are Indian churches and cemeteries a mile S, 2½ east, two, 3 miles NW and others at the day school and Parmalee.

You are near the center of a community formed over 80 years since. The Map on the reverse shows the situation.

Hollow Horn Bear, born in 1850, fought the whiteman where he could find him in Wyoming and Montana, but after Spotted Tail was killed in 1881, he became Police Captain at Rosebud and in the Treaty of 1889, with General Crook, was the Indians chief orator and negotiator. This area is worth a look see.

Todd County, US 18 / 39 miles west of Mission