The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1875-05-13
INDIAN INDIGNATION.
A RED ON THE wAR-PATH WITH A

Tuste Muck Emarthler, real live Indian,
writing from Tishomingo, Caickasaw Ma
ton. to the Chicago Inter Ocean, says: Your
Topeka correspondent, kansas" of April
26. airs his speciality" and blows the
trumpet of fame for his friend, Lieut.. Hend-
ley, with more noise than skill. 1t may be
we'll for the world 20 know of the more than
signal ability of the worthy young officer.
We will thank the enthusiastic his
torian for admitting the, fact neces-
of his protege, that 'the battle was waged
with vigorous and unflinching bravery on
both sides, ending finally with the killing of
the last one of the 81 Indians The former
Geographic account throws some light on
the subject of this more than Spartan hero
ism of the "simple children of nature''-27
Indisns-1S warriors killed, leaving nine
Squaws to receive the chivalric tender mer-
cies of the young white hero. 1t is a fitting
finale of the last few months of this Indian
question that the story of Lieut.. Hendley
should be written on the page OF history
says"the Indians engaged in this affair were
Cheyennes."
TURN BACK THE PAGE OF HISTORY
to July last, when provisions were deliv-
cred at the railroad station nearest the
reservation of these same Cheyennes;
again in September provisions of which
100000 pounds of -four were a part-and
clothing tor men, women and children, be-
ing in part payment 20 them for the land we
have bought for a song, were delivered at
were due them in accordance with treaty,
Oct. Is, 1874 At this railroad station
(CRddo) these provisions and clothing re
manned from July, September and Octo-
Der 1874 to April IL and %, 1915.
These wards of the nation, through
all the long, cold, dreary winter, without
floar or meal, without clothing, without
blankets, lived for months on meat alone,
until frantic and desperate from hunger, los
ing all faith in the promises of the white
brothers they left their reservation in search
of food. This is the sum of their offending.
The laws OF the white man say they must
stay on their reservation. They must not
leave, even to prevent starvation. The law
of self-preservation is just as unyielding in
its operation on the red as the white. They
LETT Their reservation to avoid starvation.
Some OF them were brought back in irons,
for no crime but love OF lite for themselves
and tor their loved ores. These holier sffec-
tons are not confined tn the bosom of the
white brother. No outbreak had yet &C.
Cured;
NO BLOODY INDIAN MASSACRE,
no scalp raising as yet, but the sight of
their friends in irons, and the threats of
taking forty of their leading warriors TO
Kansas to be placed in Fort Leavenwo-th
as hostages, was the last straw which broke
the cancels back. Thew broke and run
from the reservation. The troops fired on
the yet peaceful retreating Indians. Then
forbearance ceased to be a virtue. The
squaws brought out few rusty guns and
pistols they had managed to hide in the
sand hill from the spoiler. Then
they returned the fire on the 9th of
April, 1875, killing a few soldiers, aud
the Indian war had commenced. Let US
hope, for the sake OF our common humanity,
the blood of eighteen warriors and nine wo-
men may have satisfied the appetite of
Lieut.. Hendley and his superior officers.
Nineteen hundred and twenty five ponies
were stolen from the Indians within a year
while on their reservations. The govern
ment surveying parties took some OF them,
and the troops were sent out from Fort Sill
and recovered part of them, They were not
returned to their owners, however, but the
stronger arm of the military retained them.
The troops stationed to protect the Indians,
killed the hogs as the troopers rode by
the rude hut of the red man. They
cut off the heads of the hogs and tossed
them to the helpless Indians standing by,
and swinging the carcasses across their
horses rode on to camp, Offering no compen-
y.
than 100000 pounds of provisions, clothing,
and blankets for three agencies kept inst
put of reach OF these same Indians for more
than six months after the government had |
promised to deliver them in accordance
with their treaty, the contractors, Graham |
i Co., waiting for tho winter to pass, and
he grass to grow, to add yet more to the
100000 OF ILL GOTTEN GAINS
made during the past year as freighters
rom the railroad to the reservation, and |
we're only forwarded on the arrival of Spe- |
,isl Commissioner General j. p. C. Shanks. |
With emphatic orders to forward at once. |
Then these tardy contractors found mesns |
% forward from the station the entire /
mount within eight days that had bsen de- |
aimed six months after they were due, and i
elegraphed the department the news, as
hey hoped, in time to help secure the con-
ract for the coming year. 1t there is a
J cd of Justics in heaven; If there is aspark |
If humanity still left on earth, we
rope they may be successfully evoked in be
ialf of the remaining red men, and that
may be found who will 90 them
ustice. The failure TO deliver the annuity
FOODS due these Indians led directly to the
and Apache war of 1874. Report
If commissioner OF Indian affairs, 1874,
Rage 2}5, in report of John ID. Miles, United
States Indian agent: II desire to report
nd., WIN tue ptosouS IatIOu dlloWeu 10 Ile
indian, l find 1t impossible to feed the mem
Ders of the tribe on this reservation.'-
Upper Arkansas Agency, Indian Territory,
ninth month, Both, 1874. Again: "DuTiDg
asst, first, second and third months, and a
part OF fourth month, when all the Indians
we're present at the agency, we ran out of
.ations, with the exception of beef, and l
nave no doubt that had there been a good
supply of rations on hand at that time, /
Gould have held the entire Cheyenne tribe
It the agency. and prevented much OF the
rouble since experienced with that restless
people," When will those having charge
u Indian matters realizs the truth that 1t
will cost less to be Just to these people than |
irst to slarve then murder them?