Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1872-07-10

chief in the Lone Horn band of Brule
Sioux, and with him and his party returned
TO the Yankton agency, where she was duly
initiated into her new life as a white squaw.
Her romantic idea of Indian life seemed to
have received a terrible shock since her
introduction to her new home and relations,
and though she endeavOred to fulfil her
mission as a teacher and missionary to the
best of her abilities, her progress appears to
have been as slow as the progress of
civilization on the plains.
She says that her first great surprise was
being required to mount upon a wild,
vicious pony, and travel without saddle OF
attention over the country from the Missouri
10 the White Earth river, a distance of
several hundred miles. Her inability to
make the journey provoked mirth among her
husband companions, and finally exasper-
ated Squatting Bear, until he bound her with
a rope to the pony's back, and led the
animal himself on the westward trail. She
was still more surprised TO find her husband
possessed of two other wives, one a vicious,
dirty squaw OF forty years of age, the other a
girl Of scarcely fourteen years. Her life in
his wlgwam, or teepee, was not as bright and
happy as she expected it would be. Her
husband absence was taken advantage Of
by her rivals to compel her to perform the
cooking meat and scraplng robes for the
tanning process but during Squatting
Bears presence at home Miss Barber appears
to have been better treated. Her husband,
10 a violent lit of passion, killed has oldest
squaw during the first year she was with the
tribe, when, without warning or notice, she
was hurried off TO the main camp Of the
Brules. three days journey toward the
mountain, and from thence she accompanied
the tribe on It's annual buffalo hunt, where
size became sick from exposure and fatigue.
She was left at a temporary drying camp at
Rawhide river, where she attempted TO
escape by walking TO Fort Fetterman, a
distance of sixty miles For this attempt
she was beaten until nearly dead, and then
sold by her husband for three ponies, 70 n
Cheyenne chief who sported the expressive
eOubrIuuCt of CoO-CO0sc, or Bac0usIdGs.
She was taken North in 1870, and has
remained with the Cheycnnes ever since
until her escape this spring, when she made
her appearance at and claimed the protection
OF the authorities at Fort Benton
Mrs Barber IS a woman rather pain in
appearance, skin tawny and back, eyes
small, dark ana impressive. and voice rather
masculine She saws that SO far az tho
romance Of Indian lite is concerned she found
none ol Do. Her Efforts to teach and reform
use Jung llAA&l N4i-tAA t.lA Nttt lAtAAtA WIN
/ indifference and contempt She learned the
I Sioux language easily, hut the Cheyenne
dialect was harder 10 acquire. She has d
much higher opinion of the Cheyennes than
ut the Sioux The latter tribe, she says
are TO blame for nearly all tie thievlng and
numbering done IN the white settlements
She found it necessary t. paint and color
like the rest 81 the tribe while She was witt
them. ana twice witnessed the murder oI
execution ut WHITE men, one "a soldier of To,
Thirty second nltei States Infantry, w ho
aad been taken while out hunting, who wac
burned and scalped the others were tw,
Transfers brought from Fort McPh,rsau. Al
three were burned AZ place called
>adJler'- HAS iu the Nebraska bad
lands
Miss BARRIER lett the steamer FonteneIe a.
this port, ami after few honR- rest started
on her way u her friends at Milford, Mass