The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1867-09-24

got together Tns slD.den has s.eclei land and
wheat &c. % lys s s r YSq ' a. . ta0 w Haes
IL II you 40 Wat. and If the grasshcppers came
S sors w, oe,y your corn the agea. wa seaa
Ioa~aht po@s, 'arners and Tools and If you 20 to work
,nsy VIII y ,iFu,snsd you. The you give up
can't last bat few yea and you mus. look forward to
living by agriculture or do Your great grandfather
adopt tho habits and customs OF tho whites. I would
Ike 10 See you dressed like white men, with pans,
c,as and nat L you dress like white men Inc sooner
am going to to your rcat grandfather to give you no
more paint, but you must dress like the waies. know
thes, things ae unpleasant for you hear but they
are frue want TO stop this II will be better for
the Indians and the white men. We wan. to COLLECT you
whites to come and sec you, and become peaceaoe,
happy and educated. II you havo domestic COWS yod
I 1svs sss so can nj from hS We
offset to vonr having powder ana shot II you oeed "
| II YOU get togo her and cultivate the soil We will nd
saw mills and build houses The saw mills VIII
furnish lumber for ~ fence your farms so you eau
raise wheat and you will have mills 70 grind your four
When you have done all this will send you Gem
erai Harvey Governor OF the territory and when you
visit Washington you can stop on the way and see mo-
had not prepared 10 make them many pres
ents, but ney mad some goods on board the boat which
| These rensrks received with universal 'Haw
haw." by the Indians, and appeared to crafty them
more thaa anything that mad bsen said during the lay
stampede was made Tor the boat, and by tho time
wo mad arrived several hnndrod man, women and Gull
dren waiting the bank OF tho A-qaan
thy OF -four, sugar and coffee, tosetLor with blankets
sieeting, caco &c, given tnen, which they diyi-
| ded among themselves win imrartia justice TIE
indians are the greatest bcgsars In tao world anc are
never satisfied with what Give them, but constantly
| importune you for something more
| About ten O'Clock in the evening were honoroi
with serenade and dance by about twenty i've or thirty
squaws. Wo heard them singing their peculiar songs
chants long before reached tho boat, ami all
hands went out on de k to oes thsm fire was built
| on Ito bank around which they stood in a circle
singing lad Keeping time tho mu 10 with step SINH
|
olca ntlap, IN the ring. He was the leader and FUR
nlshed tho instru rnenal music consisting of drum In
the shap. OF tanbourine, upon which he kent time
with stick The squaws were nearly Gil quite advanced
in years and ndeously panied. They seemed to
| enjoy tho sport Immensely, aud kept up the ball
ul four O'Clock in the mcrnng, much TO the disgust
earthly muGic. large kettle of cogee made for
them, which apparently great satisfaction. After
refreshments some of the white spectators joined in the
dances the squaws seeming greatly atteed and pleased
with their White partners aud demonstrating their salts
faction by encrcng their forms with their and
| other littlc tender attentions
1t is the intention to vsi. or two other bands
the way down the river, ADD upon reaching Omaha to
start at once for Fort Laramie to meet the hostile In
| dams OF that section.
| CounciI with the POncas-They Willing
| to DO AS the Government Wishes--A Talk
| with the Snntce sioux-They Feel Satisfied
| with the Land They Are On and DO Not Wish
| to Move.
STEAMER ST. Jonvs, !
| MISSOURI RIVER, Sept 10, 1857.
We approaching Sioux City on our re-
turn from Upper Missouri having completed all ar.
rangements With the Indians in this region that posi-
bic this fall. The low stage of aud difficulty in
navigating the Missouri at this of the year would
permit tho Commission to the river as
| they desired to do, they intended when they
started, and they compelled to the business
with the Indians Of the upper country to the local
| agents, make another trip in the spring visit
| 20 the Indians on the Missouri, however Is
| not material to the settlement Of the Indian
question: excep. to select reservations for them as
noary all of the Indians along tho have and
friendly and many Of them partially living
| their industry Ths visit OF tho Commission has
had extremely good eisc In encouraging the indians
persevers in their attempts to cultivate the soil aud
they have been promised the did OF the government
such efforts. while at the time they havo been
given 10 understand that very little aid might BIO
pecod II they continued their wild nomadic lie and
| relied upon the chase for livelihood Five different
| councils have been hold with tho Indians at al or
which nearly the speeches have by tho
| Commissioners and the indians those I sent you
from Fort Suy.
| Upon our way down We stopped and held couaci
| with the Poncas located on a reservation the
Niobrara river aud tho Santee Sioux fifteen miles sou tn
Of the Nobraa river the Nebraska side Of tho river
Tho Paucas are branch Of the Omaha tribe and
number about two thousand They are finer looking
band OF Indians physically and with apparently moro
intelligence than the other tribes have visited Al
though they still reain their Indian mode OF Dress thoy
have for the past three years made considerable
progress In raising corn and had not the grasshoppers
nearly destroyed tho entire crop they would have had
enough this year to feed themselves without any aid
from the government. This they fully explained the
Commissioners, and the burden OF their song at tho
council that uaess they received aid enough from
the to subsis until they could plant another
,tav freri tn faet tha haa
OF their crop exceedingly and apparently greatly
chagrned at being compelled cRl again upon the
| eminent for assistance One chief observed that he
| did rot know what kind Of God Almighty
they had this year, 10 send so many grasshoppers
and hoped thers would shorty be change OF admins
trson above. They all spoke in the highest
OF Their agent Major Conger, who hes sryed from tho
green mountains Of Vermont to this nhospiaoe region
attend the OF the Indian. aud who from
all accounts, is an exception to the general rue OF
Indian egensviz: honest man; or else he hos not
been long enough In ths business learn how TO
swinae. A no appropriation has been made 10 cover
the expense OF feedinR those Indians I'll! spring. and
the river viii be closed before Congress meets it is
feared that there will be great suffering among them
| this winter.
rue Paaeas have recently been compelled to leave
their former reservaiionsome twelve miles from the
river-in consequences Of the hostility of other
and children while ut work In tho Geld. Tnis
is a great ms,orsnne, as they had some five
hundred of land under cultivation and fenced. and
many OF them had built good comfortable houses 10 1.-Two
ia. In addition to this tho has erected at
cost OF $4,000 building for the purpose OF instructng
the children In farming backsmthng and
and also IN reading and writing All these improve
abandoned simply because the hostile Sioux
dashed in twice and killed Que two OF their
old women, aud the men felt themselves too weak 10
defend them
The Pancas stated their willingness to dispose Of this
land TO she government they desired TO locate any
other bard OF Indians there, and II Is hoped by tho
| Commissioners that the Santees DO persuaded 10
! accept II.
Tho santcc Sioux are located fifteen miles below the
Pancss the State Of Nebraska All past experience
shows that u s impossible for an indian tribe to live 10
peace with the whites undcr State government while
the Indians retain their tribal organization On this nc.
count il thought best by the Commission to en-
denvor persuade these Indians TO remove beyond the
limits Of the State OF Nebraska aud settle In Dakota,
where permanent homo could be guaranteed to them
beyond tas reach Of the whites The
uierly located In Minnesota and most II not all or them
| participatcd in the OF 1862 They