The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1875-03-17
LEOPOLD KABIs,
Grand Secretary.

II seems 10 us tnat the government
could take such notion now, by max
ing an agreement with the Sioux
Nation, ~ would obviate the difficulty
it otherwise will meet with in its
cndeavor to keep miners and others
out of the Black Hills. We believe IL
is impossible to successfully prevent
the whites from going in there. The
whole country, at the present time,
is filled with an uneasy, unscttled
population, which has been thrown
out of employment and failed in bust
ness and its eyes are directed towards
the Black Hills, as the Eldorado
where golden fortune awaits the brave
and daring who seek for it. The
prospect Of risking hardshIps and
dangers In reaching this region will
not deter the adventurous fortune
hunters, but rather add zest to their
zeal. They will abandon the customs
and comforts of eastern life, risk their
health. their lives and what little
property they possess, III order to
reach the new mines in tho Black
Hills.
The Indians seem to understand
this quite as we'll rs white folks, and
they arc rather anxious to treat with
the government for the sale and sur
render Of the Black Hills country,
and Of the unCeded portion Of Wyo-
ming. They 80 express thenselve:
freely at the agencies, and it might be
good policy to treat with them now
while they are in the humor to sell.
1t certainly will be economy for the
government to do so, now.
Congress, it is true, has not made
any appropriation for this purpose,
nor authorized the President, in terms,
to make II new treaty with the Sioux,
or purchase their right to the Black
Hills country. But we are of the inn
preston, that Notwithstanding this
failure or neglect on the part of Con-
gress, the President may authorize an
agreement or treaty with the Sioux,
which the next Congress may ratify
and make the needed appropriation
for.
- ~ "a 'NaJ ALANAA
in the matter, this course was pursued
towards the Shoshones in Wind
River Valley, and with the Grows in
Montana, and with the Utes in South
ern Colorado, relative to the San Juan
country, by Commissioner Brunot,
and the treaties made by him were
subsequently ratified by Congress, and
the needed appropriations made. 1t
may lie that we are mistaken about
this, but we think not.
We do not pretend to say that the
venturesome miners will do just what
they ought to do, in t~resspassing On
territory allotted to the Indians by
treaty with the government; but they
do not for one moment think there is
anything wrong in doing so. They
cannot be tried in courts of justice for
any offence against the laws, in VEN
turing into the Sioux coantry, and
this they we'll know. If they can
elude the military, they will take all
the desperate chances with the In
dams in that region, and seek their
fortunes amid dangers and difficulties
with more earnestness, perhaps, than
if permitted to so there p~eaceahly.
Surely something ought to be done
towards securing the consent and
good will of the Indians, on behalf of
the thousands of whites who will seek
to enter into the Black Hills, despite
military orders. The element that
will flow towards Wyoming will be
that kind that has always laughed at
difficulty and danger, and has always
peopled and developed new countries.
Sooner OF later the Indians will have
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