Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1872-09-10


| every tribe here assembled TO remain on this
| council ground until we are through. We have
! a biz white road which extends to our homes i'm
! the nation; that road Is made by the Indians
| and it belongs to them. would not tell YOU an
untruth in this council, all that | have said is
| straight If did not know these things to be
| so, would not tell you, but know whereof
| speak. The Great Spirit is always present at
| these councils, and therefore we talk straight.
| When we met YOU We did not meet yOu as strangers
| but as friends The Delawares are the fathers
| of all the Indians, being older than any. We
| all descended from the same people, and are
! brothers, and ought TO live as such. The Della
| wares see Just like the CherOkees; their hearts
| are good and big enough 10 take in all their
! brothers. The CherokeeS live a long distance
| from here. 1t took me fifteen days TO come 10
this council. We have come long distance to
see our brothers, the Klowas, and we have other
talk for them after get through; then would
like to have their principal chief speak as ! have
done. | have kept you here a long time because
| love you.
Council Iadonrned at O'Clock in the after
noon.
Afternoon session-U neglected to take the
name Of the speakerl
Ny KiOwa friends and brothers and Others in
council.
am an old man and have little talk for
you; | am glad to see you as to see NV own
children. 1t is the will Of our Heavenly Father
that we meet here in council, The Okmulgce
and the United States You being at war, we
arc your friends and brothers, and what
we tell you is the truth, and for your
good and for the good OF your wives and chill
drcn. Listen well, my friends; we are at peace
with each other and with tue United States.
But my brothers, you are at war with the
United States; all your brethren in the timber
once lived like you and warred against the
United States; they whipped us aud caused us
immense suffering. They took our lands, then
i.
since we are at peace with every body, and we
are now here to help you make peace with the
United States; the chance is offered you without
losing your warriors, your women, your children
or your lands, and beg you to accept the adj
vice of your older brothers. This is the last
council to which you will be invited to make
peace. The way to do this is, 10 return the
prisoners and property in your possession be
longing to the United States, and for the United
States TO return any prisoners and property in
its possession belonging TO you. 1t you love
your chiefs we will try to help you get them out
of prison.
Ii you want to live IN peace let us know it,
then we will talk to the great chief Of the United
States, and You can send some OF your chiefs to
see the biz chief at Washington aud tell him
how You want TO make peace; he will listen to
YOU as his children; you can make terms with
him, an then you and your people, and he and
his people will be glad. Ii you want one of this
delegation to 90 with you he will go and assist
YOU III NhC 9NbtlNliNhl VI Nbut ulilltultiGSs iOu
will be treated kindly on the journey and while
visiting your great father. All these people
VINO nave Oeeh there athrm to what have said.
l am talking, my brothers, Tor the good OF your
women and children. Consider 1t well; 1t is
hard life to live at war. Let me know your i'll
tenhons.
Il embraced the earliest opportunity to inform
the delegates that the portion of the foregoing
address which relates to an exchange of prison
ers was untenabe, the Kiowa chiefs alluded to
being in the hands OF the governor OF Texas,
and that, while luly believed the time might
come when it would be right to intercede for
their release, yet the government would hardly
recommend an exchange of prisoners, convicted
by due process Of law, for innocent people cap
tUred by a maraudinT band of IndiauS.)
Kicking Bird having arrived Lone Wolf made
his reply rs follows:
The Arapahoes lComanches and all these prai-
rie Indians are my friends, aud | want all the
council to listen to what | have to say When
| was little boy | heard that the Cherokees
were trying to make good road and make this
country larger for the Kiowas. Now | know
who it was. All these chiefs assembled here are
my brothers, all of the same skin, and | want
| them to take pity on me and help Fix this thing
up. | want all these Indians on the prairie, the
| Cheyennes and others, to listen to what say.
| | am going to give you my heart, and let you
| fix up the road, if Won fix it straight and my
| people are going to travel in this road you are
making, and if get off from it the fault will be
| yours, because you don't make the road straight
| commit my women and children to you. My
friends, am ready to do all that you ask me to
| do, but first want you to take away all the
| soldiers from my country. | want to live Just as
| you do. ! want traders, but no soldiers, up and
| down these streams. Those eastern Indians are
| Just like the white people, and that is just the
| way that and my people want to live.
But first let all the soldiers be taken out of the
country. | have laid fast hold Of all this talk,
except going TO Washington, and that they have
tried to persuade me to do for a long time, but
| went to Washington once and they did moth
ing for me, and when got home the first thing
they did was to make war on me. What is the
use of goingi again? My brothers we are all
Indians and for that reason have listened to
ALL would not have listened to the whites in
the same way. | hope all you have said is true.
When was a little boy my country extended
from the Rio Graude 10 the Missouri, and hope
you will tiX it just that way again, that will be
Just right, what more can say. | have given
all my young men to you, we all belong to you,
we are on your road. All ask is that my cOun-
try may be extended as proposed, aud troops
taken out of it. Kicking Bird and all these
young men are OF the same mlnd as myself, thcy
lett the Ouitalo ana went on tle whlte man
pain out thoSG Whiie ilieu ABOUT f0rt OH use1
my people Dadly ana they went pack 10 the Dai-
ialo' Iney navy ~" lGtutheu W lhCse Ti'll'
Aeq INDIANS ana trust they VIII hN II al up
right
John Jumper thcu proPoSeu 10 aIiou'l tili ~ ~
morrow nlothiu@' WITCH lG VIII auuresS Iue NJ
owaS.
Lone won proposed thal the couhcll commune
tomorrow, ana TOMORROW evening 90 home'
Il mere informed Tue council tnat important
issues deeply lhyoNlhg some oil lhese people
were yet uhSetted ana urged every member now
present to remain uhtll every eiiort was exhaust
cd TO assist IN settLlng the dlihcuitles.)
ADJOURNED tlu tomorrow morning Alter ad-
lournment Lone won ana Little Raven oil the
Arapaoes, came 10 my tent, Where the later
urged the former TO accept tne proposition made
0y the council, return inc prisoners ana inc sto-
len mules, and go 10 washington ana settle the
remaining dhhculty' nc told MN plainly that
Il was useless TO ask " aShlhgton 10 remove
FORT olli, Out Il lucy the hlowas' oenayed tnelh'
serves, the solulerS Wouid never Dc ailo"ed 10
lhluie tHeu.
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CooCu-a.IetlcNa uauu " CotianoHSs oslns pLes
eilt loI t1G nisv se, ~ was Hoe,eu ~ nonoI
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My brother kiowas, | speak to you with
clear heart. We are all Indians. Our language
is different, and possibly you may not under
stand all have to say, but we have one mother,
and we are the children oil one woman, and we
are the sons of Que mau Our father in heaven
orders that 9OOull live in This He