Bozeman avant courier. [volume] (Bozeman, Mont.) 1872-1882, 1877-04-19

BOHEMIAN, M. T., THURSDAY, APRIL 49, 1877.

=I't, and he has authorized your Trader I
sell you all you need.
blackfoot-There is one thing war
70 say am very glad the whisky on th
riVer was destroyed. l was angry at tn
traders, and it made my heart heavy t
see the young men drunk.
ked Sides-l want you to w,ite le.te
10 the Great Fathtr-and put in it thes
words: "The Crows arc good people
lhty never even point gun at a whit
man, and it was wrong in the Grea
rather to distrust them, and stop the sal
OF ammunition to thcm.' Tell him Re,
Ioldes says this, and write it large so tha
IT his eyes are weak he can still sec to rca,
lit.
Iron Bull--My people are worse Off tha,
'hey have ever been; their complaints ar,
|p!tlable. See US, and ask the Great Fathe
to take pity on us.
biackfoot-I put my hands before m,
eyes and hold down my head in sham,
and sorrow when l pass by the lodges o1
my women so may not see their naked
ness. put my fingers in my ears, bu
still my heart hears the cries of nv chll
dren who are hungry.
Tin Beily-Years ago we lad gooG
Agent and his name was Peasp, but the,
sent him away. Then there came mar
named Wright, who GU! off part of ou,
supplies, and we thought it bad. Mex,
came an Agent named Clapp, who cut of
smother part of our supplies, and it made
us very poor. Now we have an Ageu,
named Carpenter, and we get nothing.
What are we to do? The Grea, Spirit
hears me and knows our women and chill.
dren are hungry and naked. want Pease
sent back. If he will only come and live
near us. it will make US feel happier.
Gen. Brisbin-I have the skin of a
white man, but my heart is the heart of a
Crow. l pity you, bat what can do? !
believe in God, but the wrongs of my red
brother may we'll make him sometimes
doubt If there is Great Spirit above lis.
l have been through your warehouses and
l see there is nothing in them for you to
wear or eat. But you are wrong
to blame your Agent. lie is good man
and is dong all he Gu for you. You
have had one hundred and .xty-tive
thousand dollars appropriated for your
people by Congress for the past year, and,
the year which the money was
intended to cover is nearly out, t,only TWEEN.
ty-seyen thousand dollars have been re-
ceived,
Blackfoot-You see a man who has
shaken hands at Washington with the
Great Father, and I want you to write
him letter for me.
Gen. Brisbin-We have a new Great
Father.
Pere Cheln-(The !nterprete') Whe IN
did our Great F..thcr, General Grant, get
sick?
Gen. Brisbin He is not dead. He got
tired. The people made & new Great
Father las: Fall.
Iron Bull-When did he take his seat?
Gen. Brisbin-One moon ago to-day
Neither you nor could wear his hat; it
would fall down oyer our ears. lie has
got more sense than any body, and will do
right by you.
The council now broke up with gen.
eral hand-sbakc and walk-around. This
council was the largest that has been held
at the C row Agency for many years, and
was remarkable from the fact that the
Mountain and River Crows united and
seemed on the best terms.
In the evening the acting Agent. Tucker,
gave the Chiefs feast, tie rext day the
council separating, when private consul
tation was had with Gen'I Brisbin.