Northern tribune. [volume] (Cheboygan, Mich.) 1875-1885, 1877-10-13
NORTHERN TRIBUNE.
SATURDAY. OCTOBER ID, 1877.


TIE INDIAN QUESTION.
From the kilograms to the press W,
should jlstge that the Indian question
was getting somewhat complicated. Al
is wei known there has been delega
iion of Indians visiting Washington
III are the most prominent chiefs Of
the allied Sioux tribes and associate
tribes. Among these visitors are Spotted
Tail and Red Cloud, who have been the
principal takers of these representatives
from the far~west. = The government has
made a treaty with the Sioux by which
they are bound to go to a point OH the
Missouri river and receive their sup
plies aaltl goi.io winter quarters. In
accordance with this treaty, the govern
.meut has transported supplies to- the
point designated, where they await the
arrival of the Indians; but 1T would
seem, from the speeches reported as
coming. from, Red Cloud and Spotted
g Tail, that there are some doutbs about
the Indians abiding by the treaty, and
indications are that the Indian question
may become a. serious complication,
it does not result in a war with the
redskins. Red Cloud is reported as say
ing :lasMy people are opposed to going
to the Missouri river. i know WHEEL 20
back alimy people and young men will
feel very badly because we have got te
go to the Missouri r.ver." Which would
imply that, tue the '.young neil feeling
badly" they would refuse to go te,ihe
Missouri river, and would abrogate the
treaty by force if necessary. In their de-
mands of President Hayes, they asked
for money, clothing, trunks and MANY
'Othe- things which are not included in
the treaty. Spotted Tail made the threat
still plaiiier. lie said "Oi my delega-
ton here all together have decided that
we cannot go to the Missouri river. 1t
should tell my people that have been
ordered to go there, they would scatter
all overt the country. This delegation
here have told you our opinion, and have
decided what to do; but it seems that
my plans are not entertained We have
picked out good place, and are willing
TO move in the spring; but we cannot
move this fall. We would like to be at
peace, and keep peace with the whites /;
but It's impossible for us to move away
this fall" This plainly means revolt,
unless the Indians are allowed to have
their own way, in violation of the treaty
Secretary Schulz replied that in accOru-
ance with the provisions of the treaty
the supplies had been taken to the Mis-
souri, river and were ready for them
thatit was too late to carry them to any
other place, and that they would have
to 20 10 that place or go without food ;
which resolves the question into this ::
Spotted Tail says they cannot go to the
Missouri river. and Secretary SchurZ
says they must. Now if, upon the re-
tnrn of the delegation TO their tribes,
the Indians should hold TO Spotted Tails
assertion that they could not go to the
Missouri this fall, the chances are that it
would lead TO a revolt among the tribes,
and a bloody Indian war be the result,
and the innocent settlers i'm their section
be the sufferers, for il not supplied by
the government they would he obliged
10 supply themselves. and iii doing this
commit depredations upon the white
settlers; and if war should result, where
are the troops that are to be depended
upon? Before an army could be got on
The field OF action they will have annihi-
lated or driven out of the country all
the. borden settlers and destroyed all
their property. "n@--