The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1876-07-15
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WASHINGTON.
Inspector Nmdspere's Statement.


Washington, July 14th.
Indian Inspector Vandever, reports
that at his council with the Indians of
Red Cloud and Spotted Tail agencies
on June 30th, the chiefs and others
expressed a willingness to relinquish
the Black Hills country on the terms
offered by Vandevere. The chiefs
promised to keep their people at home,
and to remain about the agencies.
They declare, and evidence here sus-
tains their declaration. that very few
Sioux are absent, and that it is chiefly
Cheyennes who have committed the
depredations in this neighborhood,
and who have gone north to join the
hostiles. The Inspector says:
The arrangement with the Indians
that 1 regard as practicable at the
present time is an agreement between
them and the government by which
they shall relinquish all right to the
Black Hills and consent to such dimin-
ished boundaries of their reservation
as shall secure this object. In con-
sideration of this REIMBURSEMENT the
government shall guarantee to con-
tinue supplies of food and other arti-
cles to them, as under the former
treaty, for five years from the date of
the new arrangement. 1 would fur
ther stipulate with the In dians that
they shall whenever government re-
quires it. consent to a removal of their
agencies from their present location to
any point that may be designated for
them on or near the Missouri river,
where better farming lands can be
found, or to wherever the government
may choose to transfer them to better
their condition. AS an inducement to
their consent to such removal or trans
fer, there should be offered them q
reasonable supply of stock cattle, oxen,
farming implements, lumber for
houses, cooking stoves and utensils,
wagons, etc., to be distributed to those
only who take land and settle on it for
cultivation, or who engage in stock
raising or other useful industries. Prov
sion also should be made for schooling
children and for the instruction of
young men in mechanical arts. Laws
should be established among them the
same as to white men. would give
the Sioux tribes the privilege of send
ing one Of their own to sit as dele
gate in Congress.
Nearly the entire force of the agency
Indians are here now and anxious for
peace. All statements representing a
different state of things are not entitled
to credit. Nothing could be more un-
fortunate than to stop the rations of
these Ineians at the present time and
to drive them to the alternative of
stealing or starving.
Appended to the report is the fol-
lowing statement of Bear-Stand-Up,
an Indian of the Spotted Tail agency,
who arrived from Sitting Bulls camp,
June 25th. II went north to the hos
tile camp for the purpose of bringing
home some relations and children
belonging to my wife. There are few
Northern Santees, Yanktonias, Assin-
iboines, Arick arees and Gros Ventrees.
The chiefs of the above are Santer,
Red End, Yanktonia, White Face and
others not known. OF the above there
are very few people. OF the North
ern Cheyennes, Black Moccasin is
chief of about 170 lodges Black Feet,
chief scabby heads; Uncupapas, chief
Sitting Bull; Sans Arcs, chief Spotted
Eagle; Minneconjous, chief Black
Shield; Ogallalas, chief Crazy Horse.
In all there are little over two thou
sand lodges. After the troops got into
the country could not get away. The
Indians made soldiers to watch camp
and keep the people together. 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 Indians and troops,
and came home by road known as
the old Fort Piere road, on the east side
of the Black Hills, striking the road
about halfway between the Missouri
and the Black Hills, and came straight
to this agency. Sitting Bull sent word
to my agent, to Blsonette and to Bou-
chett, that he does not intend to mo-
lest any one south of the Black Hills,
but will fight the whites in that coun-
try as long as the question is unsettled,
and If not settled, as long as he lives.
AS soon as the Black Hills question is
settled he wants my agent to send him
word and tell him what to do. He
says he finds a great many guns and
other things about the Hills where the
white men have killed each other and
been left on the prairies. Sitting Bull
asked how the Brules were treated at
their agency. told him we'll, but he
doet not believe it. He does not want
to fight the whites, but only to steal
from them as they have done. White
men steal aud Indians won't come to
a settlement. The whites kill them
selves and make the Black Hills stink
with SO many dead men. He says he
heard that Indians coming from the
agency would not be allowed to return.
He has made a 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
Government has promised much to
the agency people that never was full
filled, and it wants to move the agen-
cies again. If moved who will occupy
the land? 1t belongs to you if you
will remain where you are. 1 want
you to send me word If the good white
people won't listen to the great father
no more. Your young men will listen
to your chief. Sitting Bull also says
that If troops come out to him he must
fight them, but if they don't come out
he intends to visit this agency and he
will counsel his people for peace.
Bear-Stand-Up, who made this state
ment, is reliable and was in Sitting
Bulbs camp 10 days, from about May
25th to June 18th.
< The Specie Riddle Read.
Linderman, director of the mint.
speaking of the rapid decline in silver,
says 1t has now reached point where
France, Belgium Switzerland and
Italy must either shoulder the Ger
man surplus of silver, or prepare
to abandon the double standard and