Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1876-09-27
The Peace PalaVerers Succeed In Seeur.
ing the Signature Of SpOtted-Tail
and His Fellow. Chiefs to
Another Treaty.
Spotted.Tails S9eech-HOme Truths
Sent Home with a Home Thrust
Treaties, like Pie.Crusts,
only Made to lie
Broken.
Blue.Teeth as Splritualist Knowing
Grants Tastes, He Sends Him
Pipe and Tobacco-POuch-
An Appeal for HOWard's
Reinstatement.

SPOTTED-TAIL AGENCY, y NEB, Uln
Sidney, oepte Der %. The first council with
the Sioux -potted all agency wa had this
q ternoon Co'onel Boone, ss chairman, 81 i'd /:
M friends, seven days SINCE we seut down
some propos tiol to you that were submitted
to the people at Red-iloud. We have come
now to ear your answer"
rpotted rail- laid: ave have come to meet
you. my friends We have considered the
words you brought us from the reAt Iat her,
md we have made up ou min s. This IS the
NTH time words h we been sent Us from the
reat f'ther. AT the time the treaty was NJ aoe
on Horse creek there was provision made 10
borrow the oveTl nd road of the Indians, and
though | was boy then they told me that
the promises made were to last dity years
Thes5 promises havesHot been sept. The next
conference we had was held with Cen
eral Magruder, when there were no prom
shook hands. Then there Was the
treaty made by Generals Sherman, SsnbOrn
and Harney, when We RS told we should
have annuites and goods for thirty five years
ihey said this, but did not tell the T. uth. At
that time Gene. al She man told me the coun-
Try was mine, aud l should Sc ect auy place |
wished for my res ervsti IN. 1 said 1 would
take the corutry from toe bsAi of While
river 10 th7 Missouri. He said they Wou q
give us cow TO rai'e @, tile, mares TO raise
n"rses, and oxen and wagons TO bauI logs
WITH and 10 haul goods aud earn moaey that
way. He said, also, that there should be issnes
OF such thing as we needed to lie arm the arts
with, aud, besides, money 70 every one. He
told us that each of us should have fifte+n
dollars for an annuity, but told hem hat
was bad smount; that We didn tuDders snd
money, aud that IL 81 Ould be twenty dollars
20 each ona, aud he asSented 10 that. He told
me these things should pe cal ried cut, and LOT
me 10 go to the mouth of the White
stone. stone and locate my people, and these
1t as not true. VIII these promises
failed to be carried out. | went myself to see
The Great Father, and went IL to his hOu d
TO him these things. The great Iather told
me to go home, select m p ace in any coun-
try might cnoose and go there and live with
my peoP.e. came home. selected his place,
and moved here. They told me II 1 would
move here 1 should receive q fulfil ment OF
the promises made me, but ali got was some
very small lws a. 50 Old wagons that
were worn out Again last summer you came
20 TAX about the cSrtnLry, AMI We said we
cou consiCer the mAJleri we sa' d we would
cave u TO the great father Tor MIN to settle.
In reply TO that he has sent you out this sum
nier. You have come TO visit our land, and
We now ask you how many yesrs there ar71 10,
US 10 i've? My friends, you who sit before me
are traders, merchants; you have come here
70 turn anything out OF the way without paw
ing Ior 1t. when a man has a poSSt sIOn that
he values aud another party comes TO buy 1t,
ne brings with him such eOod things as he
wishes u purchase 1t with. My ENDS, our
DeO JIe have both intellect ana hear you use
thee to consider In what way you tn nK best
to live. Ny people who arc here before you
are precisely the same. l see that my
friends before me are men of age and dignity,
and men OF that Rind who have good judg
menL and consider we'll what they do. 1 inf
from that that } ou are re to consider well
what snail be good Tor my people or long
time to come. 1 think each of ou has Sc
Ie ted somewhere a good piece of la d for
himself. intending 10 live on it that ne may
there raise ms children. NY people ,aIe not
diffe, ent; they ais live upon the earth and
upon Things that c0me to tnem from above
We have the same thoughts . d desires IN that
re-pect that Ii t. people ha q. This is The
country where they were bo-n-wnere they
nave acquired all their property, their chill
dren anu their horses. You have come here
20 buy this country OF US, and II won be we ]
,fyou WOO come with g 'Ods you propose to
give up and 10 put them out OF your hand SO
we can see the good price You propose to pay
for IL; then oui hearts would he gad. Ny
people have grown up together with these
white men q great many OF US have earned
to speak their language, and our children are
with them in our schools, and we want to be
considered all one people with them. NJ
Gr ends, when you go back 10 the gre at iather
1 wish you to tel b N to md Us goods, aId
also end us yokes OF oxen, and give us wag
from the railroad. This seems TO me 10
be very hard day. Half our county
is at war, and we have come uLon
III here N our land; II was brought upon us
by the children of the great father, who cam
to take our land from us without price, and
who do great many evil things. The great
father and his children are to blame for tnis
trouble. We have here a store house to hOld
our provisions, but the g father SENDS us
very tile provisions to put in our ito, ehOuse,
and when our people become dlspleased with
our provisions ana have gone north to hunt,
The children OF the great fa'her are lighting
them. II has been our wish to i've her peace
ably, but the great father has nlieu 1t with
soldiers, who Ih1nk only Of our d. ath. Some
of our people who have gene from here in
order that they may have q change, and
others who have gone north TO huut, nave
oesn attacked by sOlu1er5 Fl ON this direction,
and when they haV- got north have oeen at
tackled by soldiers from the other direction,
and now when they are willing to
come back the soldiers stand between
them aud keep them from coming home
I tn MI q U.V
tuan tGis. When g people come 10 troub q
IL Is better for both parties to come together
without arms, talk II over anu find some
peaceful way to settle IL. You have men
TONED to me two countries. The Mis-, ouTi
liver cOuntrt / know wuen we were there
we had gr' at deal of troun e. let hun.
dreds OF ny people ouried there. The O, her
country have never seen, but l agl ee to go
aud look at 1t with fifty OF my young men.
VIII tuis t ouble co.. menced the great Ia
ther stopped the sale of ammunition, which
hss caused great sufering TO my people, net
withsianding We are all sincere TO do wnat is
good for our people, My frieud, pointing to
General Van DeVer, you are a wise man. When
you were n re last spring you told me you
would keep me. l want y, Il TO do ro.'
SWitt-B ar then said they wanted 10 con-
sider the matter until tomorrow.
The propositions were lead Ior the second
time and iAterpre ed and the council ad-
Jourued till morning.
~PJTTED TAIL AGENCY, ,Septem ber %, via
SIDNEY, N. b., september B--lhs treaty
with the Indians oil tuIs agency was cOnclu
ded this evehiUg after a thre- hours council.
%lorteJ- all mace another lengthy speech.
in which he iDAisJed upon going uOwu INTO
he Indian terIit ry first 10 lOUk at he cOun-
try, and then go to Washington to talk wi
the great father. and touch the pen at the
same tine. h e also wished to clay the sign
ing of the treaty until he present war was
sali acIorily and peacefully TILED. He said ::
wish to have Two M to help me, one is the
chief IN mister 20 inting TO Bishop Whipple),
and the other the Rev. Mr.. HenmOn, to settle
the matter. You have the wOlds OF the Great
spirit and you try to live according to His
win. You know this war lrouble does not
please the Great spirit, and | want you TO
he. p rub 1t out
Baptist Good said q white III mister,
teach us, but don't think 1t is done
properly. 1 would ike to have some female
ministers come dressed in black clothes, to re
ceive the girls in one house and teach them,
and have white ministers in black hat and
coat, TO take the boys to snoi her house and
teach them properly. These ministers l waut
to Ike the names OF the things sent to us and
wh-n they come to see that ney are n there
Blue. Teeth, Spotted Tails father in-law,
wanted to know who was the one to carry
their words 10 the g,eat father, and upon
Solicit r-General Gay .Ord being pointed out,
handed him Handsomely decOra ed pipe
and tobacco pouch, v hich, he said, the GIeat
Spirit had given him, a told GayIord to
present IL { tue great faith r at Wa hington,
as from man he heard speak at the cOuGcII,
and ask the q eat tatr eT to be mercItul 10
the Iudians, and pity them a. d help them,
and TO t them remain in their own county
Speeches were made by several other Indians,
and by Judge Gaylord, COlOuel Boone anu
Bishop Whlpple, but tue lnoisns We're sti l
undecidet, when spO [ d-TaIl aro-e and left
the council room. Wb le outside, E w. Ray
MOI d, wnite man living in Spotted Tails
family Tor the Ia twenty seven years, told
h'm II he did not gn the treaty Rsd-ClOud
wo Id get ahead of hin and derive all the ad-
vantsges 10 be bad from the trealy. Raymond
then went to Redo Oud, and Ned-Do(,
of Redo Ouds agency, who were
outside the council room, and told them to 90
IN and urge Spotted Tail and his penDle 10
sign. They did so, aud made short, effective
speeches. and then withdrew; wnereupon
Two t'lke said: "Che rea on we are afraid 10
touch the pen and are silent before you Is be-
canse we have been deceived 80 many Times
before. Ii we knew the words you tell us
were true, We would be willing to sign every
day." Then pot ed all addressed his pso-
pie, saying: ali our friends up above lrefr r
ring TO hed-Cloud agency had not sigued the
trea'y, would helpt em in holding out, but
as our friends up there ave siErrd. ASK all
good men who ale trust /" oTl.IY TO come up
and sign it," Hall an hour later the ne es-
ssry signatures were at ached and the treaI y
was n ade. The Indians here al want the
military sgsnt removed AID Howard Ieln-
81 4ted.
SIDNEY, NE8., September 2i-Ju@ge Gay
far ha NnF.