The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1874-07-09

winter his tribe went on a buffalo hunt.
Bears Ears and his foe were both IN
the party. They went q long distance
from home. The main party resolved
to camp away from the village Hezr's
Ears determined to return to It. On
known TO him his enemy made The came
resolution, and being better mounted
overlook him on the way. He was tFav-
cling IN q marrow path, when suddenly
he recognized the voice Of his enemy
calling to him 20 get out Of the way.
Il was adding insult to injury. He
turned aside as the other attempted
70 pass BY, raised his gun and shot him
dead. Cutting out the dead mans
heart, he himself mounted the vacant
saddle and rode to his ledge. Telling
his mother to pack up what things she
wanted, he busted himself IN preparing
VengefuI meal. He cut omen his enc
my's heart, broiled it, and ate If. He
had hungered for this meal for many
days. The two fingers he had given TO
the gods were cheap IN comparison with
the reward they had secured. Before
daylight he was a refugee on his way to
the Sioux camp. He was received as
friend and ally, and FOR eight years was
foe to his own household. During
this tune it was that he camped and
huntei in the Indians paradise, the
Black Hills. Once more reinstated in
his own tribe, he has with many of them
enlisted as the scout of the Long-haired
Chiefs tho Indians call Gen. Custer,
and has promised faithfully to lead him
to his old hsunss.
Taking little stick IN his hands,
/ Bears Ears, when he had learned what
I came for, sat down and made map on
the sand. Carefully tracing out the
streams aud rivers he placed his finger
on the Big Cheyenne and its fork, the
I Belle FouEc le. % This, said he, IS is
the only way to the Black Hills. It il
walled around on every side; here only
Is the gateway. Within this wall there
is large and fertile park. The Little
Missouri river heads IN close to the
Black Hills, but there is no bad land
such as vexed the Yellowstone expedi
ton, to be encountered. The bluffs OF
The streams, however. are very high
and may give some difficulty to wagons
The country is heavily wooded. Ash
oak and pine are found In addition t
cottonwood, which aboHnds on the Chey
enne. Game is plentiful, especially elk
black and Whitehall deer. Bears are nu
msrons. Trout abound in the streams.
The animal most feared by the Indian
! ID eAC pt14tuS1s Ol WHICH DctI Ear
claims there are four kinds. The In
dians know very little about minerals
but say there is iron there. There is
: story that on one occasion q squa'
brought large piece of gold from Tia
, hills to one of the agencies.
: This region may be said 20 be the In
! dams fable land. 1t is invested wit
5 legends and superstitions. ''Somt
where near the CENTRE" says Bear
5 Ears, there is a great nest, like th
? nest of the eagle this is the nest of th
+ thunder" This spot even the Indian
3 themselves do not visit because of feal
: Perhaps the invincible Indians thl
e Bears Ears saw there had something
: do with it. Z" These Indians" said b,
: g you cannot kill; they viii stand s
0 close to a gun that the powder burr
t them, yet the ball viii not hurt them.
8 "Shall we meet these IndiaHs?"
: asked.
( Yes, said the guido, "they Tor
Q that land, and Why should they n,
t fight for it q
4 We ehalI see whether they viii.