The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1875-07-02

ern Cheyennes, under Medicine Man ofthe
Cheycnnes. number 500; and the north.
ern Arapahoes, under Friday and Medi-
cine Man Of the Arapahoes. number 800.
Total OF Sioux. 2s,297. Total OF Sioux.
Arapahoes. and Cheyennes, 81, 1877.
These Indians, including the Arapahoes
and Cheyennes winter in the country
AROUND THE BLACK HILLS.
where timber and game are found In album
dance and upon the streams flowing into
The Yellowstone and Little Missouri Riy-
ers. Red Cloud Is not hereditary Chief.
buta successful soldier who has achieved
reiainers by prowess In battle and by
force OF character; American Horse sue
ceeded 10 his Cheflainship by Inheritance
while Spotted Tail did not. but was ap-
pointed 10 his position by Gen. Harvey,
ten years ago. The power of the Chiefs,
except In their own villages, II limited
and The tribes over which they preside are
mostly governed by societies Of warriors.
such a 1.-The Society Of the White SASH
or THE Society of the Brave Heart.-
These societies make the laws for their
tribes. and decide on war or peace. Their
decisions are mandatory. aud they are in
deed the chief rulers OF their respective
tribes, and, through general councils, of
the entire Sioux Nation. Sitting Bull
spoke truly when he said here. while en-
route 10 Washington. that neither Red
Cloud nor Spotted Tail, nor any of the
party. had any power whatever 10 con-
clude a treaty; that any treaty which they
might attempt TO make would be rejected
by their nation and that the treaty must
be made in their own country,
b. THEIR own PEOPLE.
In council with Commissioners sent to
that country by th,ir Great Father, the
President.
The visits of Indian delegations to
Washington-eyen such men as Red
Cloud and Spotted Tail-do not seem, as
a general rule. 10 impress them forcibly
with the great wealth and commercial
strength Of the American people; but
when these Chiefs. some years ago. attend
ed The Cooper Institute, in New York City.
and noticed before them the sea Of
upturned faces, and then slipped quietly
down and out into the streets. TO find that
the passing crowds there were in no wise
diminished in numbers by the presence Of
the crowd within. they began for the first
time 10 think that the whites are in num-
Der as the grains of sand upon the sea-
shore, the leaves upon the trees Of the for
est. or the blades OF grass upon the prai-
ries. And when they have come into their
own country. and would tell their people
81 this thing that they have seen. then do
their tribes turn upon them, and say TO
them that they have taken bad medicine
from the white man; that they can no
longer see straight; and that they lie. for
they talk not the truth Thus is il that
these Chiefs are In danger OF losing their
influence with their people. and, in order
10 retain that influence and 10 save their
regulations, they
DARE NOT TELL THEIR NATION
that which. by direct ocular demonstra-
ton. they actually know TO be the fact.
And thus these Sioux. a. body, do not
believe, and viii not believe. that the
whites are as powerful as themselves.
They think their proves compelled the
Government of the United States to evac-
uate and abandon the military posts of
Fort Reno, Fort G. r. Smith. and Fort
Phil kearny, in the Powder River cOun-
try in 1869. under the treaty Of 1865. To
them ignorance i bliss, in that they re-
cognze not the certain doom that awaits
them for their land is coveted by the
whites, who are already standing upon
their borders and exclaiming ia regard to
this people, why climber they the
grOundt'