The Shasta courier., 1872-07-27

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ability to make the journey provoked mirth
among her husbands companions, and
finally exlsperated Squatting Bear until
he bound her with rope to the pony's
t ack and led the animal himself on the
westward trail. She was still more sur
prised to find her husband possessed of
two other wives, one vicious, dirty squaw
of forty years of age, the other girl of
scarcely fourteen years Her life in his
wigwam or tesee, Was not bright and hap
py as she expected it would be. Her hus-
bands absence was taken advantage Of by
her rivals to compel her to p,rform the
vilest drudgerv, such as gathering wood,
cooking meat, and scraping robes for the
tanning process; but during Squafting
Bears presence at home Miss Barber ap-
pears to have been better treated Her
husband, in violent fit of passion, killed
his oldest squaw during the first year she
was with the tribe, when she was hurried
off to the main camp of the Brules, three
days journey toward the mountains, and
from thence accompanied the tribe on its
annual buffalo hunt, where she became
sick from exposure and fatigue
She was left at temporary drying,
camp at Rawhide river, where she attempt
ed to escape by walking to Fort Fatterman,
distance of sixty miles. For this attempt
she was beaten until nearly dead and then
sold by her husband for three ponies, to
Cheyenne chief who sported the expressive
snbriquet of Coo Goose, or Bacon sides
She was taken north in 1870, and has
remained with the Cheyennes ever since,
until her escape this spring, when she
made her appearance at, and claimed the
protection of the authorities at Fort Ben
ton.
Miss Barber is woman rather plain
in appearance, skin tawny and black, eyes
sn ALL dark and impressive, voice rather
masculine, and in fact just such woman
as Mrs Col. Anthony or Tenny G. Claf1in
would choose for second in command.
Miss Barber conversed with our rep, rter
without the least difidence, and answered
any question asked of her. She says that
so far as the romance of Indian life is con-
cerned, she found none of it. Her tffnrts
to teach and reform the young Indian child
ren, were treated with indifference and
contempt.
She learned Sioux language easily, but
the Cheyenne dialect was harder to acquire.
She. has a much higher opinion of the
Cheyeunes than of the Sioux. The latter
tribe, she says, are to blame for nearly all
the thieving and numbering done in the
white settlements. She found it necessary
to paint and color like the rest of the tribe
while she was with them, and twice wit
uessed the murder or execution of white
mer, once soldier of the 32ud United
Sta'es infantry, who had been taken while
out hunting, who was burnt and scalped
the others were two tcamsters brought from
Fort McPhearson. All three were burnt
at place called "SaGler's Hill," in Ne
braska bad Lands"
Miss Barber asserts that there will lie
no peace while white men intrude into the
buffalo range or tempt the cupidity of the
Indians by bringing stock and valuables
out into exposed frontier settlements. The
Indians have the greatest contempt for
the white mems judgment and the efficacy
of the soldiers So.
Miss Barber left the steamer Fontinelle
at this port, and after few hours rest
started on her way to the home of her
friends at Milford, Mass