The Lancaster gazette. [volume] (Lancaster, Ohio) 1863-1886, 1870-06-23

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Red Coed iAd Sis k..y were
n waahlne,pn q shD ~ lnut.--
The iopaflhn iaine ispoii n sko
setietafy coz ihade Z ljsa al.
dress - tle In.lln4s = l.ehsif az
the RresIdlht assuring tnln that
ifthey would 60 back . th1IE res
eryatiops end keep peace, eli the
goods and raliOns pfouii1od them
blythe government would ~ sent
to them, and an agent sent to them
10 ass: that they gQt ( every.
thing n regard 70 giving them
arms and ammunition, the Score
tnry said they would not be given
them at present, but after they had
kept themselves peaceahIe on their
reservations for q time, these
would be furnished.
After Secretary Cox's speech,
Red Cloud shook hands with those
latthe table IN the Council room
and delivered the following efation:
rvIcame from where the sun sets,
you NIertTziHed on chairs; / want
to sit where the sun sets" (Here
the Indian warrior sat. upon the
floor Indian fashion and proceed
ed aThe eyeat Spirit bas rsiset,,
me- this xav. he raised me 1880. I
run no opnosition TO tIae Great
Father who Sta IN tbs White
Honae I douf want to acEt I
have offered NV uraVer to the
Great suirit soT MIGHT come here
SAFE and weIl. What I have TO saw
10 Won and. these men and to nv
Great Father. is this: Look at
mei / Va. raiaed where the sun
rises and came ffom where he sets.
Whose voice was fIrst heard in the
land3 Il was the red people.
who used the bow. The Great
Father NAV he kind but / can't
see n I am Good and kind TO
tbe white neonle and have given INV
lands and have now come from
where The ann sets 70 see YOU
Tho Great Father has sent his peo-
No ont there and left me nothing
bnf an Island 0ur nation il melt.
inc ewavl lilo the anow ON the side
of .be b;lla whore the snn ia warm
wb;le vonr neonle are like the
hleJes ~ oross In the snrino when
the SIMMER is coming. / do not
won't 20 500 the whites making
roads in onr conntrv. Now that I
/ have come into INV Great Fathers
Hand. see ifI have any blood when
! T retnrn' 10 NV home The white
tnoonle have snrinkled blood on the
I blades of 0rass about the line of
Fort Fetterman Tell tbe Great
Father 10 remove that Fort then
We viii he ncaceful and there will
lbe no moro trouble. I have got
two mountains in that country
the Black Hin and the Big Horn.
,lI want no roads there. There
have been stakes driven in that
country and / want them removed.
/ have told these things three times,
and / now am here to tell them
tee fourth time. I have had
nv mind made up to talk
that way. I, don't WANT my
reservation on the Missouri. Some
Iof the people here arc from there
and know what I say. What L
hear is that my children and old
men are dying off like sheep; the
/ country don't suit them. / was
: born ut the forks of the Platte; my
5 father and mother told me that the
= land belonged to me. From the
; North and the West the red nations
, have come into the Great Fathers
Ihouse. We are the last of the Og-
ollalas We have come to learn
the facts from our father why the
! promises which have been made to
: us have not been kept. Iwant two
, or three traders that we ask for
3 At the mouth of Horse Creek in
!. 1879 there was a treaty made
, and the man who made that treaty
a IalIndin0 tn General MITCHELL who
) nerformed that service for the gov
t ernment, told me the truth. Goods
$ which have been sent out to me
/. have been stolen all along the road
e and only a handful would reach
Y me to 90 among nv nation. Look
= at me, here I am poor and naked.
!. was mot raised with arms. l alway:
= want 70 be neaceable. The Great
d Snjrit has raised YOU to read anc
/. write and has mt papers befor,
IL ro;sad mo /,