The New York herald., 1875-10-02
Curious Method Of Issuing RatiOnS and
Distributing Goods.
HOW AN AGENT MAKES MONEY.
A Call Upon the Great Father for Relief from
SwindIing and Oppression.
FoRr BrarHoLD, Dakota, Sept, Is, 1875.

operates with the trader 10 swlndle the Indians anu
defraud the governments tnat paseboard checks issued
by the trader redeemed by the agent with the Indians
own suppes that blank and false vouchers signed
by the employees the agents request that the trader
was awarded the hay contract this for nearly
double the price he offered take in his sealed
proposals. that the agent supplies mis- house from
the government warehouse and makes entry Of the
receipts the agency cash book and that he has
the Indians and betrayed the confidence placed
in him by the churches and the government State
ments will now be given from the Indians, on whom
all the Weight of these outrages has fallen. have
visited the chiefs of the three trbes-he Arickarees
Gros Ventres and Mandans-and taken pains to get
truthful record Of their wrongs. a rule find that
the real facts always more serious than they ap-
pear on first hearing the Indians testimony. At Fort
Peck they charged agent and trader with stealing
wagon loads of their -four When | saw the employees
who helped carry the -four away by command OF the
agent | was forced believe the terrible charge.
Such has been my experience here. All that the In
dans say and much more besides is fully proven by
the sworn statements OF white citizens
4 VISIT TO THE ARIcKAREE CHIEF.
Rushing Bear or Son Of the Star. not at home
when called, but . messenger brought him, and
the usual salutations exchanged He is nfty-sx
years old and has eight children His house, tepee,
is a very large counted fifteen beds and several
tin candlcstcks and other evidences Of civilization in
different parts the The lodge about eighty feet
wide twenty high in the centre The appear
ance and construction OF all these habitaons
similar. They built OF poles and timber in the
shape OF circus tent but the DO not come TO
within six eight feet of the ground The roofs Of
small poles, supported timbers and covered with
earth. The tepees are called damp and unhealthy.
consider them far superior the ordinary log shackn Of
the frontier such Occidental statesmen have been
reared in Each Indians lodge supposedto contain his
family and perhaps his mothcrnla and relatives
The beds in White Stars lodge better than the
couches of the average Indian. There dishes
the shelves many other conveniences which give
tone to the domestic hearthstone
RUSHING BEARS STATEMENT.
The pipe started its journey OF peace and the
Chief began:-'of warriors have 4sO Last year
went to Washington and the chief Of the white soldiers
asked how liked the little father that he had sent
me- said did know him yet / shook hands
with the Great Father. He promised everything we
needed, and said that should have all that sent
TO US He has not kept his word The agent has given
Us only ten or twelve beef cattle month For seventy
eight tickets traton checks get only sack of -four
but bacon, sugar coffee. We have been getting
only flour and meat Last winter sixteen persons got
sack Of -four for amonth Six persons received only
ticket while seven got two Crnis before the
organization Of the issuing system Last fall asked
the agent faen cattle in the herd then for the
winter would make them poor We went into winter
quarters He sent entrails, horns, hoofs andtrpe
and gave the 50 and 81 load for hauling and
paid them out OF our own good provisions Teams be-
longing 10 outsiders paid SO for going to the
Arickaree camp distance or six miles s. to the Man
dan camp eleven miles and IS 10 the Gros ventre
camp fifteen miles above. Our beef killed in the
cry. Aterward got what beef there left To each
family the little father gave four feet, horns,
liver, tripe, tail, the tallow and entrais He
had big herd Of cattle belonging the Indians and
he promised to give and calves but don't
them He killed calves for his boarding house
The white who kind TO driven away
We never the provisions that sent last fall
but We got ration the rest burned
When in Washington they told work like
white and the agent would help me. We have
done III doing 1t now, but get nothing but
what Is already own | have worked for my own
food ever sitce sperry, the little father came here
would like 70 have my wages IN money, that
buy where / please. The Great Father has
sent food and We are paid on with it,
There six chiefs In the reservation-two
Gros ventres, two Mandans and two Rees
We chiefs get twenty-five pounds or sugar and ten
pounds Of coffee month All the rest have 10 work for
their sugar and coffee. The chiefs went to sperry to
have a council He would not hear u.s. He said he
was chief himself and would DO as he pleased when
complain Of small food he threatens to stop our an.
nuties and rations and to call for the soldiers We
begged him stay with u.s. but he has built new
agency buildings away from village 50 that when
the weather stormy wives and children viii
suffer going for provisions % attend his school,
10 the doctor
HOSTILITY THE sioux
The Sioux will come now and light us, and when wo
are away hunting they will scalp and kin our
children We are glad that the white chief Of the
newspaper makers has sent to hear complaints
We want the little agent 90 away II be is to do
better General Grant, the boss Of the big guns and
white soldiers promised that fSperry did not please
Us we should have another agent We don't Ike him.
lie has bad interpreters. They are all liars. We sent
one 81 our own men 10 Washington to talk for Us,
and the Great Father gave him gun and sad
We might have what Interpreter we pleased. Tie man
We want, spcrry wont have"
RArioSs FoR
Al this point of tho conversation squaw arrived
from the agency with tie weeks rations for the family
oftwenty persons thought good time to make a
memorandum. sho bad six pounds Of pork and thirty
pounds Of aour. This last twenty persons
days
'Now you see, continued the speaker ''why we
want new father. We want interpreter who can
Talk our language and who make our wishes known
20 the agent"
HEFFIcTEScY on THE INTERPRETERS
Your correspondent win bear witness to the inefl.
cheney Of the agency Interpreter Tho military inter-
prefer Fort Stevenson is worth dozen such men as
Mr.. sperry employs The same Is true of the intcrpre
tiers other agencies The difference between the in
torpreter at Standing Rock and the employed By
Colonel PoIand the difference between Reddy the
Blacksmith and Oakley Hail.
THE AGENTS CLERK
'Mr Courenay, the agents clerk, tries TO do well
for us, = said Rushing Bear "Hc has helped Us when
we we're suffering and given wood when were
cold sperry was away. He found It out when he came
home and be was angry about IT, He was
mad because our old and blind, wives and