Sioux City register. [volume] (Sioux City, Iowa) 1858-1871, 1859-03-17

listen to. The Ceows are said 70 be the
only Indians in the upper country not ad-
dicted 70 the use of ardent spirits. They
saw the effect among the As.insboins In.
dams before it was introduced among
them, and saying 'it made them poor and
made fools Of them." were not curious
enough TO touch it. They boast only oi
one thing however. "thst they never killed
. white man." The nation has been very
much reduced Of late BY the small pox
which ragged among them two years sgo.
They then naubsrsd six hssdrsd lodges,
now, but four hundred.
Aug. 2-This morning the chiefs were
busy showing their papers, certifying that
they vera we'll disposed towards the whites
and emineutly worthy Of the confidence
and charity Of white men. These papers
we're signed by Generals" Indian agents
"Bourgeois" etc. The issuing Of these Ger.
tificstes is much to be condemned GUS
tom one half Of them are rot worthy Of
the character given them and the other
half are different individuals than those to
whom the papers we're given, and all use
them for begging purposes. The Indians
killed three buffalo this morning and ..
noon all had another feast on shore
Every time the Indians csmped the won.
en- were busy either dressing robes or ma
king them into "par flesh" Their extra
horses we're al loaded with robes, meat,
etc. This work ss Is the case among all
Indians is entirely the province Of the wo
men. One of the "braves"s man probs-
bly, thirty Eve years Of age is ah'te, has
blue eyes, light hair and 6ne intelligent
countenance. He can talk nothing but
Crow however, and is Indian in his tastes
and habits. About sundown we discover
ed band of buffalo within mile Of tie
camp and the hunters with twelve Indians
with bow and arrow "run" them. They
wounded three drawing them toward the
camp, when all turned out men women and
children and run them on foot. There
we're nine buffalo killed in all and no need
for the meat, their robes too are compari.
lively worthless 1t this season Of the year.
They took but little of the meat, the sauaws
preserving the brains Of them all, which
they use in dressing robes.
Aug. 3.-After riding some ten miles
through the points and over beautiful
country we camped about ten o'clock to
wait for the boat, and in the interim the
time was spent running races. First the
two ''crack" horses, then others, and final
ly a scrub race, every one joining. There
we're fifteen horses and some Of them would
have made respectable time on "course
About clock the boat arrived and we
proceeded together and in two hours time
arrived at Old Fort Medium the Am. Fur
Co. post two years ago. The for. stands
entire, houses, picke.s and all. 1t is We
~ small fort and so constructed as to be
defended from all sides. This is the old
fighting ground Of the Blackfeet, Sioux
and Crows. Medium has had forty four
men killed while with him st various posts
on the Yellowstone. the majority Of whom
we're killed at this post. Two years ago
fort y nine Crows died with the small pox
at this post and are buried near. Eight
or ten were buried together and near the
others were the prepared graves Of those
that recovered.
The Crows have . particular fancy for
names ending with "tail' and the majori
ty Of these chiefs had some such cogno
men as "Horse tail, ,""Rotten tail" "Deer's
tall ETC., etc. Their conversation is lin.
tied to four subjects, "wsr, women, horses
and buffalo"
Aug. 4.-This morning four horses
''turned up missing and the Indians
found their tracks with others going to-
wards the Blackfeet country they conclu.
ded however it was too large party to
follow. The Blackfeet since they have
made treaty with the government are bet :
ter disposed toward. the whites, but not.
withstanding the article in their treaty
and in the Laramie treaty made with .hir
teen other tribes in regard to Stealing hor
ses" and "gong to var" they oil keep alive
their old fsuds. The Blsckfeet snnuities
are nearly ~ large - the anuuities for the
whole thirteen tribes under the Laramie
treaty and not single article 10 either
treaty is observed. None Of them if they
find white man on the prairie hesitate
abou, stripping him Of everything, and
some do not hesitate about taking his
scalp also. A few weeks before We lefi
Fl. Union Pierre our hunter went out some
Eve miles from the tort 10 find buffalo aud
found party Of Blackfee. who took his
three horses and gun and then stripped
him Of every thing but his moccasins. A
white man il in the most danger whea
meeting sn unsuccessful war party. Sew.
eral OF the chiefs had burning glasses"
which they wore as ornaments. and called
the fire steel Of the sun"
Aug. 5.--We found this morning that
man was missing, and the Indians a, the
same time discovered the loss Of horse
They found his trail, aud three Indians
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