The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1875-05-13
Indian Oratory.
Spotted Tail and Red Cloud Refuse q
Trade for the Black Hills.

Two councils were held recently at
Red Cloud and Spotted Tail agencies,
at which the following head Indians
were present: Spotted Tail, Swift Bear,
Two Strike, Slack Grow, Little Pleas
ant, Standing Elk, Red Eagle, No Flesh,
Whistling Elk, and Minneconyin. The
speeches made were few, the best those
of Red Dog, Spo ted Tail, and Red
Cloud. They contained much for COM
missioners and white men to read think
ingiy. The following are extracts
SPOTTED TAIL.
You called this meeting to have a
small talk. You, and the ones that
came here TO bring news from the Great
Father, want to gather money for your
selves. We were looking for the time
when YOU would csme here, that my
country might get larger instead of
smaller. / have been TO see the Great
Father, and he said we would succeed
In all we undertook. / find the COM
missioners don't help us to do that.
You may be one of the same kind. They
look to their own good, not ours. If
they only came here TO gather money
for a short time, end In little bits, good;
but they take it all at one time, which
makes us poorer and poorer, and now
our children starve.
Since last fall our Great Father has
sert one of his old men TO barangue in
all his villages, and he had big cOun-
Gil of his head men [cOngressl, and
have expected bad news ever since, and
you have brought it to us to-day. My
friend, you come from the Great Father
TO talk, and it is not solid, and L don't
know what to make of it. There is so
much lying and stealing, l can't tell
3 I W
They keep telling me the appropria-
tions are too small. It's "a lie. They
are large enough, if it came TO us with
out going through so many. All have
pockets. It wouldn't be so bad if some
of our people were the commissioners
and agents we would make them have
pockets Just like white men.
I want to go to Washington to talk
for myself about these Black Hills.
RID DOG.
You see all these people? Some are
! chiefs. some are head soldiers They
| are all fathers, and they think for their
children. The Great Father governs
| the whole world, and he ought to give
rs a piece of ground TO raise our chill
/ dren on. 1 want to take lots of our
/ people to Washington, and some of the
4 old white men in this country. / went
/ 10 W tAhllI8bDn EWACcs 4 AesA DAAig wv
/ interpreters and a few people, and we
have been quarreling ever sipce over
the treaty. This time We will take
/ enough.
RED CLOUD.
think the white men are beginning
TO know me. I am no dog. ] am a man.
This is my ground, and am sitting on
IT, The Great Father has troops all
over the world, and he can keep the
white men out of roy country. The
Great Father sends commissioners out
here TO tell the truth, and they pray
God to help them tell the truth but
they all lie and steal. / don't under-
stand it. When go 10 See my Great
Father / see land fenced in. don't
pass through it, or take anything from
it.
I want to go to Washington to settle
this matter for myself.
of all the slandereTs of Boston wo
men the Rev. Mr.. Lsthrop, of Amherst
Mess, is the most fragrant. At wo
mans rights meeting held in the very