Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1867-05-17
THE INDIAN WAR
Another POW-Woyv-Sa-taii-ta Makes
sfsia SPeech-Gen. EHancoclI,s Reply.

. Another POw-Wow-sa-tatd-ta Makes
] eisia SPeech-Gen. EHancocax,S Reply.
SOC The correspondent of the SC. .LoutS DEM
oeTat, who is with General Hancoek's expe-
dition, gives an account of the last occur
renee which was held at Larned. Sa-tal-
. ia, the great warrior Chief of the Kiowas,
was present and made a long oration, to
. which Gen. Hancock replied by a firm and
e1ud1c1ouS address, which cannot fail to i'm
press the Indians with an idea OF the pow
er and determinatinn of the pale faces,
sA-TAU-TA's SPEECH, -. s.,
I want the Great Father at5Washington
.sahd' all the soldiers and troops to hold on:
u I don't want the prairies and country to be
ibutjust hold on for awhile. don't
,iswant war atall. L want peace. As for the
.Kiowas talking war, don't Know anything
:. about IT. Nor dc know anything, about
the Cot1anches, S Sb CShbeyennes and Sioux talk
q was and Comanches are poor. They are
:, all OF the same color. They are all red
men. This country here is old, and it all
z belongs to them. You are cutting off. the
= timber, and nov, the country is of no, ac-
count at all. I don't mean anything bad
by 7whatII say. have nothing bad hidden
IN my breast at all. Everything is all
right. " '"3'' ''H - ''''.' '' b
sH's Sa-tau-ta then resumed his oratior: 9
lq stAs for this Arkansas wagon road, 1 have
no objection to it; but don't want any
railroad here; but up on the Smoky Hill
route a railroad can run up there, and it is
all right. On this Arkansas, and all these
. northern streams, there is no timber; it has
all been cut off; but if anybody knows of
anything bad being done / do not like It,
There are no longer any buffaloes around
here nor anything we can kill to live on;
+ but am striving for peace now, and don't
want anything construed to be bad from
rhot I cir =
the plain truth. The Kiowas are poor.
b Other tribes are very foolish. They make
4 war and are unfortunate, and then call up
on the sKiOwas to aid them, and don't
know what to think about it. want peace,
and all these officers around this country
know it. have talked with them, until
now am tired. / came down, here, and
d brought my women with me; but came
for peace. 1t any white men steal our stock,
i will report it openly. / continue to come
often and am not tired. Now, am doing
q the best lean, and the white man is looking
for me. If there were no troops in this
q country, and the citizens only lived around
here, that would be better. But there are
so many troops coming in here that fear
n they will do something bad to me. I hope
that you two Generals, and all these officers
around here, will help me, and give me
heart, and help the Cheyennes, and not
destroy them; but let them live. All OF
the Indians south of this, desire the same,
aud when they talk that way to me give
!, them praise for it. Whatever hear in
this council, and whatever you tell me, /
will repeat when / reach my villages; and
there are some Cheyennes over there,
whom 1 will tell and induce to preserve
peace. But if they will not listen to me all
my men and myself will have nothing
more to do with them. want peace, and
will try to make them keep peaceful
q The o KiOwa braves have grown up
O from childhood obtaining their medi-
q cine from the earth. MANY have
@ grown old, and continue growing old, and
die from time to time, but there are some
remaining yet. do not want war at all
but want to make friends, and am doing
the best can for that purpose. There are
four different bands of Comanches camped
at different points in the South along or
the streams, and there are five different
bands of ,Kiowas, ysLone Wolf--Wolf,'
Heap Bears" Timber Mountain" and
stumbling Bear" They profess to be
Chiefs, although they have but two or three
% lodges each.i They are waiting, however
to hear what they can learn before takin 9
the war-path. The Kiowas do not say any.
thing; and whatever the white man says
Is all right. The KiowaS and the white
men are in council to-day, but hope, NJ
mistake will be made about what the In.
isdians say, and that nothing will be added
sent to Washington.
trader comes to nv camp
treat him well, and do not do anything ou
of the way to him.. All the traders are
laughing and shaking hands with me-
When the Indians get little liquor they
get drunk, and fight sometimes; they whiI
me-, But when they get sober they are al
right and don't think anything about it
All the white men around here can look a.
me, and hear what say. am doing all
can to keep my men down, and doing the
best can to have peace. Down at the
mouth of the Little Arkansas, where.
treaty of peace was made, Colonel Leaven
worth was present, and was the first mar
who came in there to make peace with Col
onel Leavenworth and L did it by my word
Little Mountain, chief of the tribe, ii
now dead. He did all he could to max,
peace, and kept talking, and talking, bu
the white man kept doing something baC
to him, and he was in so much misery tha
he died. The white. men and Indians KEEP
fighting each other backward and forward
and then came in and made peace myself
Little Moutain did not give me my com
mission;'I 1 won it myself. These thre
braves (pointing to some Indians near HIM
are chiefs also, and are not afraid of soldiers
and the sight of them does not frighten thes
chiefs at all. This prairie is large and good
and SO are the heavens above, and l do no
want it stained by the blood of war.
don't want y on to trouble yourself abou
bringing out too many trains in this coun
try. don't want too. see any wagon
broken or destroyed by war"
General Hancock's speech was quite long
The following extract will give an idea o
its character: --'Iar -.- .7.tassir
-'You know very well that in few NOR
years the game will go away. What will
you do then? You will have to depend
upon the white man to assist you, and de
pend upon the Great Father to feed yo
when hungry. Your children will hav
to depend upon raising corn and stock, a
other Indians do, before long. This gene
ration may not have to do it; but the mex
generation will have to do it. Then yo
should cultivate the friendship of the whit
man now, in order that he may be you
friend when this time comes. The whit
men are coming out here so fast that moth
ing can stop Homecoming from the Eas
| and coming from the West, like a prairi
on fire in high wind. Nothing can sto
It. The reason of it is because the white
are great people, and they are spread
ing out and cannot help it, Thos
on the sea in the West want to CON
municate with another sea in the East. ali
that is the reason they are building thes
roads-these wagon and railroads and tele
graphs. They will bring the goods of tn
white man to you cheaply, and it will
you good when it is completed We So
diers cannot stop it. The Great Father ha
a council with these tribes and asked thei
permission to run roads through here, an
| you and the others gave your permission
| That treaty was made at the mouth of til
Little Arkansas; and last fall again, it wa
signed again, and it is too late to reconsid
er it now. l don't know where the raj