Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1872-10-10
Response of Medicine Bear and Run
nlnE AntelOpe-The Hear Wants
Gums and Amm u n itl0n-De.
parture from the City.



The Indian Fights I'm the SiOnx Region
From the Chicago Inter- Ocean, Sept 13.
The thirty-three Sioux chieftains and war
riors, whose arrival at the fremont House
was fully reported in our columns yesterday,
paid their respects, Yesterday noon, to the
themselves gaudily for the occasion. Two
Bears, the great chief of the Black River
Sioux, striped his benifcent countenance
with chrome yellow and vermillion. Run
ming Antelope, the orator of the tribe,
decked himself before bit of broken look
ing-glass with vermillion straight, and others
of the Black River party completed their
toilets, preparatory to meeting the "big chief
of the big village" with yellow and green
and purple, many of them decorating their
hair as well as their faces. There were
nineteen of them in one room. and the Milk
River Sioux, fourteen in number, under
Medicine Bear, in another room across the
hall. They were apparently well pleased
with their quarters, except Thunder Hawk,
who objected to third d.story room in Mr.
brakes barn" as "too high up and re-
garded the distance from the windows of the
room to the pavement with evident dismay
The view of the lake, with its multitude of
vessels, and the railroad, with its constant
trains, afforded Big Head and Walking
Shooter untiring wOnderment. ID Colonel
O'Connor says no one of the party had seen
railroad until last Monday. and to Great Bear
the greatest marvel Of all was that "betwcen
sun and sun the white mans horse had gone
fifteen suns journey Colonel Wham says
that the chiefs gave UP counting the lodges
when they reached Chicago. They kept it
up from the Missouri here, but their mathe-
matics failed them yesterday afternoon. Sit
ting Crow was introduced by the interpreter
as the chief who had killed more men than
any warrior of the Sioux. He is Black
foot, and has lost an eye in battle, a disfgure-
ment he conceals by green goggles For the
state occasion they were to go through at the
City Hall, Two Bears party brought out all
their available clothes. Black Catfish, how
ever, whose taste in dress was quite simple,
declined the loan of buffalo robe from
Bulps Ghost and made his toilet above his
waist with glass beads and II red string.
Most of the chiefs wore head-dresses of red
and white feathers. IL III" 3,'i"tf'Aj '' 17
The interpreter stated that each red feather
denotes that q warrior has been wounded by
| n bullet, and q red porcupine quill that o
wound has been received from an arrow
| Walker Shooter, one of the Black River
| Chiefs, wore insignia indicating he had re-
I ceived three gunshots and four arrow wounds
| Running Antelope, the interpreter said, is
| entitled to nine red feathers, to say nothing
of arrow shots. ALI the Black River braves
have been wounded, either in battle with the
whites or Crows. They are the finest speci-
mems of physical manhood that have been
brought east-every man of them six feet or
more in height, square shouldered, well pro-
/ portioned, and with singnlarly intelligent
faces. The Sioux are undoubtedly the best
preserved nation in the Indian country, and
those Montana Sioux, who roam the region
between the Upper Missouri and the Yellow
stone, are the best of their nation. The dele
cation of Milk River Sioux, as a whole, are
inferior in appearance to Two Bears party.
They, however, regard the latter with con-
tempt, because, they say, the Black River
braves haven't ''fought the white man like
the Tetons. and have gone TO live at the
agency without any pay for their hunting
! grounds" " 7s@-@' ''.
The crowd ut the Council Chamber, where
the reception speeches and responses were
| made, filled the room, and was very orderly
and attentive, though most of the speeches
were inaudible to those outside the railing.
The Teton Sioux--Medicine Bears party
ranged themselves close on the east side of
the Council Chamber, with Medicine Bear at
their head, the chiefs next, then the warriors,
and last of all the sqnaw, wife of the Man.
WHO-I dCkS~tuc-ELhyic. hc HIbuu NlFCf
Sioux sat in the Council seats, with Two
Bears and Running Antelope in the center.
Mrs. Galpin, to whom the Indian agents say
belongs most of the credit for bringing the
5000 Black River Indians into the agencies,
sat with the chiefs during the conference.
She is a pleasant appearing Indian woman,
35 or 40 years of age, neatly dressed in mod.
ern style, and has two or three daughters al
| school in the East whom she has supported
by moccasin-making and bead-wOrk among
the Sioux. Judge Turney, Colonel Wahm
and the Indian agents agree in saying that she
wields a more powerful influence among the
Black River tribes than any of their chief
tains.
i MAYOR MEDiLL
delivered reception speech, which was re-
sponded to by Judge Turney, and Agent:
OConnor and Simmons. Speaking of the
Indians under his charge, Major Simmon:
said: a.. -g
'Thc Indians were at war with the white!
until last April, when we received instruc
tons from the department to call them in ant
subsist them. l called on them to give UP thu
horses they had stolen, and they did so. They
held big council and calculated that theJ
. would remain ut peace, and since that tim,
they have done everything We have asket
them to do The Commissioners theI
2 requested the chiefs to come to Washington
! and they sent these warriors here. There ar
many of them still under Sitting Bull. who II
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