The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1876-09-23

Tho attendance Of Indians WAS much
larger than yesterday.
LITTLE WOUNDS WALL.
The first speaker was Little Wound,
who said that yesterday he heard some
thing that made him almost cry. He
had always considered that when the
Great Father made arrangements for
railroads through the Indian country he
would pay for fifty years. He had
always considered this his own country
and when it was told him yesterday that
he was to be made like a man without
a country it made him cry. The diff
erent kinds of animals he wanted were
not for n band but for all the bands
for all time. He wanted the President
to give them each year three kinds of
wagons. He wished all white men
married into the tribe to live with them
always and that it be not possible to
send them away anytime. Whenever
whites have set bounds to the reserva-
ton they make a law that Indians
should not go beyond them and he wish
ed the President to give twenty-five dol
lars each year to each of his ONE and
children. He wished the white men
who are living among the Brules and
are married to Ogallala women TO come
and live with him. He was willing to
sign the papers the Commission had
brought here on condition that while
the young men are gone to the Indian
country those who stayed here should
be fed and that the Commission should
see to it that rations are brought here
until spring, and he wanted annuity
goods issued them before the end.of the
present new moon, as the weather will
soon be cold. He understood that there
was twenty-five dollars each to be given
them yet in addition to the twenty-five
thousand they had already received for
hunting privileges in Nebraska. When
the agency was established here they
had a right to 60 and hunt but he I'M
derstood that when the new agency was
established they would be deprived of
the right to hunt. He wanted an an
nuity of twenty-five dollars a head in
place of it.
Bishop Whipple on the part of the
Commission replied that with reference
to the things he asked for they are all
and more provided for in the paper they
are asked to sign. That this commits
sion will use all their power to secure
rations for them through the winter
and that he himself would promise to
go to the great council at Washington
to do all he could in behalf of their peo-
pie. With reference to the annuity
goods the Commission could not say
what time they would get here. The
Commissioner of Indian Affairs had
gone to New York to purchase them
and they might nov be on the way, and
the Commission would write a letter
to-day about the matter. AS for the
white men married into the tribe, they
would not be interfered with, but bad
white men who came here to stay a few
days and do the Indi ans injury would
not be allowed to stay.
Little Wound then said he wanted
the Commission to make haste and lay
the matter before the great council and
that the Indians themselves desired to
go to Washington and see the Great
Father. He also wished a copy of every
thing said here given them SO they could
take it to Washington so there should
be no mistake.
Col. Boone said the Commission had
no right TO change the paper presented
to them. He was glad they had shown
an interest in the half-breed children.
A full copy of all should be given them
and the paper presented for them to sign
as soon as the secretary could make it
out.
Bishop Whipple asked them to Sc
lect the Indians they wished to sign the
treaty and it would be presented to them
in the afternoon; in the meantime pro-
visions for a feast would be given them.
Little Wound said the Commission had
said nothing about the additional twenty
five thousand dollars promised them for
hunting rights, to which Judge Gaylord
replied that the President had tried to
get it for them last winter, but could
not. The Commission would do all they
could this winter to secure them that
money, but could not promise them any
money certain. The Indians were then
informed that the Commissioners want
ed a chief and two head men of each
band selected to sign the treaty at three
O'Clock this afternoon.
Our Colorado exchanges are requested
to that the Red Stocking B.
B. c. of this city hereby challenges any
club in Colorado to play a match game
for 800 a side and the championship of
Wyoming and Colorado, at the fair
grounds in Denver OIL Friday, Sept.
goth.