The Portland daily press., 1870-06-08
WARRINGTON.
TnE INDIAN couNc11-srEEcH OF RED CT

THE INDIAN COUNCIL-SPEECH OF RED CLOUD.
WASHINGTON, June IA great council be-
tween the Indian delegation, Secretary Cox
and Commissioner Parker, was held this morn
ing, occupying over two hours Vincent Colyer,
Felix Il. Brunat and other gentlemen familiar
with Indian affairs were present. Secretary
Cox delivered an address to the indians, assur-
ing them of the friendly intentions of the gov
eminent towards them, of abundance of food
and clothing so long as they observed treaties
and did not modest settlers, aud that they should
be protected on the reservations from white
marauders. La regard to supplying them
with arms and ammunition with which to hunt
game, the Secretary said he must defer an ans
wer to that request until Mr.. Brunot returned
from tour he was about to make among the
tribes, but giving encouragement that if peace
was preserved on the frontier this summer and
they promised in good faith for the future,
arms, powder and lead would be issued.
Red Cloud listened attentively to the Secre-
tary's remarks, and at the close came forward
and said: came from where the sun sets. You
We're raised on chairs. l want to sit where the
sun SETS Here he sat on the floor in Indian
fashion and proceeded: The Great Spirit has
raised me this way. He raised me naked. 1
run no opposition to the Great Father who sits
in the White House. L don't want to fight, I
have offered my prayer to the Great Father so
that might come here safe and well. What l
have to say to you and these men and to nv
Great Father is this: Look at me. was rais-
he sets. Whose voice was first heard in this
land? It was the red peoples. Who used the
bow? The Great Father may be good and
kind, but l can't see it, am good and kind
to the white people and have given my lands,
and have now come from where the sun sets To
see you The Great Father has sent his peo-
pie out there and left me nothing but an is
land. Our nation is melting away like snow
on the side of the hills when the sun il warm
while your people are like heads OF grass in
spring when the summer is coming
DON'T want to see white people making
roads in our country. Now that I have come
to my Great Fathers land, see if I have apy
blood when return to my home. The white
people have sprnkled blood on the blades of
grass about the line of Fort Fetterman Tell
will be peaceful and there will be no more
trouble. l have got two mountains in that
country, Black Hill and Big Horn, 1 want
no roads there, There have been stakes driven
IN that country and want them removed.
have told these things three times and come
mere to tell them for the fourth time. l have
made up my mind to talk that way. / don't
want any reservations ON the Missouri. Some
OF these people here are from there and know
what say. What hear is that nv children
| country don't suit them 1 was horn at the
fork OF the Matte. My father and mother told
me that the land there belonged to me- From
the north and west this nation has come into
tne OreaG atnerS mouse. We are the last of
the Ogallalas. We have come to know the
facts from our Father; why the promises which
have been made to us have not been kent. 7
want the two or three traders that we ask for
at the mouth of Horse Greek,
In 1852 there was a treaty made and the
man who made that treaty (alluding to Mitch
ELY told me the truth. The goods Which have
been seut out to me have been stolen ali along
the road and only a handful would reach me to
go among my nation. Look at me. am poor
ways want to be peaceable. The Great Spirit
has raised you to read and write and has mt
papers before you, but he has not raised me in
that STYLE The men whom the President sends
US are soldiers, and all of them have no sense
and no heart. | know it to-day. did MT ask
that the whites shoald go through INV country
killing game, and 1T is the Great Fathers
fault. You are the people who should keen
peace or the railroads you are passing thmurh
my country. have not received so much as a
brass ring for the land they occupy. Iwish
you to tell that to my Great Father. You
whites make all the ammunition. What "a the
reason you don't give it to me? Are Won
afraid am going to WARP Yeu are great and
powerful, and am only a handful I do not