New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1877-12-14
THE TALK WITH SITTING BULL.


| d1y. n extract from tins report WAS tNcluNi''i'
prntcd m TiiE TRIBUNE yesterday giving the conciu-
sons Of the commission, the effect that there Is n"
danger Of an invasion from sitting Bull further e&-
tract giving the speeches made ut the council viii be IN
teresting.
The speech to sitting Bull was made by General Terry
who told the savage chief that his was the only 4haiah
band which had not surrendered to the United States
He proposed that the band should return and settle at
the agency giving up their horses aud arms which would
be sold ana the money invested In cattle for them
Sitting Bull replied
For sixtyfour years YOU have kept me and nv Geope
aud treated bad What have We done that you Snoud
want to stopl We have done nothing: II IS az te
people on your SIDE lai mYe s"Ftu vs. H. "V clS 81
| and we took refuge IN this country; ~ We
on this side OF the country we learned TO shoot and tha
Is the reason why came back g 10 again. would Ike
To know why You here. In The first place. did not
give you the country but yOn followed me iroin one
MAC. TO another 40 had 10 leave and over 20 tts
couniry: was born and raised III thi1 country ,.l
| with the BED River haibr.eds, ana ! ni"hI
10 stop with them. raised hand in hand WIN nc
Red River halfhrccd ard We ere eolrg oyr nm ,nne
part OF the country ahd thSt j. lne tasn VIZ IA
come over here tShakng hands WIZ the bIlt1 Wn
Gers That Is n' Way was fha !" The the %ay
/ / intend to be with Them You lave got
how %@I yG ge G2y6 fR 6SS poo % Yoa see me- Here
/ am! II you think an a fool, you are mSSsr
fS house 'n' You come i here to tel Us lies, by
WE 5 d%n such T anagc used to me- that is to tell
SncI lies, IN my Great Mothers house. Dinf you eay
two more words. Go back home, where you came rom.
This country /, mine AMI intend 10 stay here, ana 10
r mis- connt full Of crown people. see these people
here We were raised with them Again slahng
/ hands with toe British oficers That is enough
! 80 no mere. You see me shahuE hIA1 W.,
me you ran me cut Of / have come here 70 stay
Ti ihsse PT n3 to ana Sse l IL ep"y gong back ns
santeo Indian hy the hand Iheso ~ it w ,9
born aud raised with them. lie IS solhs 10 o'l 30"
| something about thon
"Thc-ono tina runsthcRc santee Indian SAID;
Look at me was born and raised IN this country
These People away north here. was raised Witl-iny
! hands IN their own. nave lived in peace with tnem
! For the last sixy-fOur years We were over III
! your country ana you treated us badly. We have
| come over here now. and YOU want to Try
/ aud get us bark there again; You didn't
traa well aud don'i iika yoa at all. 5IakinT mus
with the English officers have been up ana doWh
there often ms these peopn rave WIN ne AZ ,a.o
with these people rs long ~ i've on come over re
! to tell us lies | VIII shake bands win men herr'
ana have been in peace WIN men: are Nt nc
people that learned me how to shoot me hTSt time TIM
away from You have GENE over here to cur country
il sIl have o say / want yau to take it easy going
| back home Don't 90 in riisli
nine" Yankton INDIAN who joined tho sauiee
band that left Minnesota many years ago during the
! massacre said. after shaking hands all round:
Ihave shaken hands with everybody in the house
! don't the samo clothes mat those people d..
! other. | want to tell you few. hut you have got
! more lies than ! -iXtY-tour years agO you
got country and you promised 10 take good care Of
| us ard Keep Us. Toa ran from one place to auoticr
killing aud lighting Us, and was born aud raised WIN
these people over mere nave r'ilr mere 10 80 t-'
council and shake hands with You ALL wan.d 10 tell You
think OF tbs. There seven il rent tflD''
% u They live all over The country You an NOT VI at
right tlcic and part of us You kept on tins si
You dd no iTstt us rgAs over mere - VIC S'' o,a
/ over here These people stinE atol'ii hsIe' ~,
promised 10 take good caro- OF them When you hdd them
| over there. but Won did not fulfl your promises.
They have over here 70 this dido again and here
together | come IA - these people mere, ann
| that i, tic way ! make nv living Everything
get buy from the traders; done zeal
| ANYTHING. For fourteen years / have not fought
with your people, aud that j. what nave
| lost by waiting IN this country have come over
Ia
OF tobacco, they gave me haf; and tnat Is why i've
ord cave Won a little fourteen wears ago
since Then have been in This country. shaking
hands all around aud continuing We came over 70 tins
country. and going TO 1--we with these people here
Ihis country oyer herc Is mine me os ni'e oEgf
To ll nothing Du what wanted TO eat with tho amhIu
| milton they gave me, VIII 90 50.
squaw named "The-one-that -speaksonce," wife OF
| Observation-Disclosures" said
was over In your country WANTED to raise my chill
dren over there but you did not give mo any time.
came over to this country TO rase my children aud have
little peace. Shaking hands with the Engsa officers
That is All have say to YOU. want you to 20 back
! TO stay with. and raise my chil1ren with
The Flying Bird then made n speech and said;
"These people here, God Almighty raised IA together
sitting Bull here that whenever you found Us QUO.
wherever his country Tas why y9H Wantea 10 h3ye H.
around what they committed had nothing to DO
live and they think OF anything good il is always
something bad Again shaking hands with the BRUSH
| officers
The Indians having risen. being apparently aboDt to
leave tine room the interpreter then directed ask
! the following questions
shal [ say to the President that you refuse tee Of
fers that he has made 70 YOU Are 10 understand
from what You have sad that yon refuse those Oner5
Sitting Ball. could tell you more but that Is al
have Ia tell you. II W. told you m0Ie-why you would
not pay attention 20 1t. That Is all have TO say.
TINS part OF the country does MOI beons TO your people
| The Crow Shaking hands aud embracing Colonel
! Mcleod and shaking hands with the other British
| ofieersI This IL the way VIII live In this
part of the country That is the way like them Making
q gesture OF embraced When we came back from the
other side YOU wanted TO do something-tO lie. You
want US to back to the other side; that is the reason
why you stay here What do you mean by coming over
around here, | know, belongs to these people.
and that il the reason why | came over
other country. am AFRAID Of God Almighty, that Is the
! reason why dOn want 70 do anything bad. when
children, mye and my women they all live together
These people that don't hide anything, they are an
br3r ps0Pe tina, s@PGso rd you wanted TO
! over here. Tue people standing around here
want to hear II also That is the reason they stand
around mere sxty-fonr years ago shook hands with
the soliirrs, and since that had hardships
made peace with them, and ever since that have had
hardshipS i made peace with them, and ever since
that nave been running one place 60 another
TO keep out OF their was across line and
staid there, aud thought you people woud take
good care OF me You did not do so, aud these people
over here gave me good care have waited here three
days, and nave got plenty e. eat aud everybody respects
stay here. Going back, you take IL easy. Go 70
where you were born, and stay there. came over to
this country, and Great Mother knows all about
She knows came back over here, aud she don't wish
anything of me We think and all the women in camp
think, going 70 have the country ful Of people.
Whon shook hands before there were lots OF people
here then. Now have como back IN this part or tho
country again 10 have plenty mole people; to live IN
| peace ana raise children.
The Indians then inquired whether the commission