The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1876-07-15
Bit'k HILLS.
TIE Indians willing 10 RelInQuIsh the
Country on landcNere's Terms.
Further Details OF the Little Horn Fight
Sitting Bull and His Adviser Reported
Killed he Situation from SIT,
tlaO Bulls Standpoint

u
sitting Balls chief adviser -Four
rompasirs of the Tweuty-second In.
hnliS, rDHHlstng o twelve officers
and one hundred and forty men, ar.
rived at Fort Lincoln, aud viii leave
for Terry's command ON Sunday. The
wounded are recovering, aud there viii
be no lncre deaths it is thought Sit
ting Bulls baud, obtained nearly
twenty thousand dollars, the soldier,
having just been paid.
a Times special from Mouosha, Wis.
consin, says WehSters ~ Masons'
hub aud spoke factory burned this
morning, throwing sixty or seventy
hands out OF employment, and causing
a loss OF twenty 10 twenty thou
sand dollars Noin~umucc.
WASHIN0roN, July ll-ludnn In
spegtur Nauderyrre reports that at u
council with the Indians OF the Red
Cloud and Spotted Tail agencies, held
on jane 80, the cl iefs and others tx
pressed u Willingness 20 relinquish the
Black Hills country on the terms Of
ferod 10y Nundcrvcre. The chiefs all
promised to keep their people at home
and to remain about the agencies.
They declare, and the evidence here
suslNins their declaration, that very
few Sioux are absent and that Il j.
chiefly Cheyeunrs who have com.
mitted Expectations in this neighbor.
hood and who have gone north to join
the hostile bands. Nearly the entire
force of the agency Indians are here
now and are anxious FOR peace, state
ments rel presenting II different state OF
things are not entitled to credit. Moth
ing could he more unfortunate than to
stop the appropriations OF these In.
diaus at the present time aud thus
drive them to the alternative of steal.
or starving. Appended to the report
is the following statement of Bear
Stand Up, an Indian Of the Spotted
Tail agency, who arrived from Sitting
Bulls camp, June 18th, who says: 81
went north to the hostile camp for the
purpose Of bringing home some lela-
lives and children belonging to my
wife. There are few Northern San
tees, lanktorias, Assimborines, Aric-
kare and GrOsventres there, I chiefs
of the above being Santee, Red End,
Cankonia, White Face, and others not
known. OF the above, there are very
few people of the Northern Cheyennes.
Black Moccasin is chief OF about one
hundred and seventy lodges; Black
feet, chief, Scabby Head; Uncpaps,
chief, Sitting Bali; Sansarcs, chief,
Spotted Eagle; Minnesjans, chief,
Black Shield; Agallalas, chief, Crazy
Horse. In all these there are u
little over two thousand lodges,
After the troops got into the country |
could not get away, | talked with
Sitting Bull before leaving, and then
moved my lodge out in the night,
coming very far around to keep out OF
the way OF both the soldiers and the
Indians. Sitting Bull sends word to
my agent, to Bisonetse and to Bouchet,
that he does not intend to modest any
one south OF the Black Hills, but Will
fight the whites in that country rs long
as the question is unsettled, and If not
settled as long az he lives. AS soon
as the Black Hills question Is set
tied, he wants my agent to send him
word and tell him what to do. He says
he finds u great many guns and
other tliDgs about the Hills, where
white men have killed each other and
left their bodies on the prairies. Sit
ting Bull asked how the Butes were
treated at their agency. | told him
wei; but he does not believe 1t. He
does not want to fight the whites, but
only to steal from them as they haYe
done; white men steal aud Indians
want to come to u settlement; whites
killed themselves and make the Black
Hills stink with 80 many dead men.
lie says he heard the whites coming
from the agency would not be allowed
TO return; he has made it II law that
no visitors shall pass between the
agency and his camp, either Indians
or whites. When the rascality about
the Black Hills is settled, then he will
stop his rascality. The government
has promised much to the agency
people that never was fulfilled, and 1t
wants to move the agencies again. II
moved, who will occupy the lands?
II belongs to you, If you remain where
YOU are. want you to send me word
II good white people want to lis"
ten to the Great Father. Sitting
Bull says If troops come out to him he
must fight them, but if they do not
come out, he intends to visit this
agency, and he will counsel his people
for peace. Bear.Stand-Up, who makes
this statement, is reliable, and was in
sitting BULBS camp nineteen days
from about May 18th to June 18th,