The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1877-11-01
SITTING BULL.

claims His Intention of Living in Canada
An Interesting Account of the Council at |
Fort Walsh.
[From the Chicago Times.l
Gen. Terry rose and addressed the In |
dams, through the interpreter, as fol- |
lows: E
We are sent as a commission by the Presi-
dent of the United States, at the request ofthe
Government of the Dominion of Canada, to
meet you. The President has instructed us to
say to you that he desires us to make a lasting
peace with you and your people. He desires
that all hostilties shall cease and that all the
people OF the United States shall live together
In harmony. He wishes this, not for the sake
OF whites alone, but for your sake as well. He
has instructed us to say that if you will return
to your country and hereafter refrain from acts
of hostility against the United States Govern
ment and people, free pardon will be given
you for all acts committed in the past. no mat
ter what those acts have been. No attempt
Will be made to punish you or any man among
you; what is past shall be forgotten, and that
you shall be received in the friendly spirit
In which the other Indians who have been en-
gagged in hostilities against the United States,
and have surrendered to its military forces
have been received. [Smile by Sitting Bull.
We will now explain to you what the
President intends to say when he promises that
treated in as friendly spirit as the Indians
who have surrendered. These same terms are
now offered you. The President cannot and
will not consent that you should return to your
country armed, mounted and prepared for war.
He cannot conseLt that you should return pre-
pared to inhlct injuries similar to those which
you have inflicted in the past but he invites
you to come to the boundary of his and your
country, and there give up your arms and am
munition. [Spotted Eagle and other Indians
laughed outright Thence to go to the agency
which he will assign you and there give UP
your horses, except those required for peaceful
pursuits We ask you to take these PROPOSE
| tions into consideration, to take time, to con-
suit together, and to weigh them carefully.
| When you have done SO we shall be glad to
| meet and receive your answer.
Sitting Bull rose slowly to his feet,
threw the robe off his shoulders, and
displayed blue calico shirt which was
worn over his leggings. His leggings
were made of dark blue cloth, with a
dark stripe extending down the side, and
around his neck was tied red-banded
handkerchief. His first sentences were
uttered in shan vindictive manner,
and his sentimel s were re-echOed by
his followers. Tbs close of each SEN
tence was follove by "How!" from
all the Indians in the room, showing
how closely they sympathized with him.
AS I watched the swaying body of the
Indian and saw his mobile face light
up as he spoke of the great
wrongs of his people, and ut
tered his contempt and hatred
for the American nation, could not but
admire the natural oratory which ena-
bled him to speak so strongly. Every
thought was expressed in a gesture more
powerful than his words could possibly
be framed to read. When he cried,
"You came here to tell us lies," he ad-
vanced to the commission, and shook his
forefnger at them with force and fury,
and stood there until the translation had
been made. When he told the commits
sion to take it easy going back home, he
essayed the only smile during his speech,
and the irony was undoubtedly very fine.
He spoke as follows:
For sixty-four years you have kept me and
my people, and treated us bad. What have we
done that you should want us We have done
nothing. It is all the people of your side that
have started us to do all these depredations.
| We could not go anywhere else. so we took ref
uge in this country of the British. It was on
| this side of the country that we learned to
shoot, and that is the reason came back to it
again. Why do you come here2 In the first
place did not give you the country but you
| followed me from one place to another, SO /
| had to leave and come over to this country.
did not give you any country, but you took it
away from us. was born and raised in this
country, with the Red river half-breeds, and
| intend to stop with them. Twas raised hand-in-
ho,,l po1 ho1f
going over to that part of the country, and
that is the reason why have come over here.
| [Shaking hands with the British officers he
proceeded ] That is the way was raised in the
| hands of these people, and that is the way
intend to be with them. You have got ears to
hear, and you have got eyes to see, and you
see how live with these people You see me.
Here am. If you think I am fool, you are
a bigger fool than I am. This house is a nedi-
cine house. You come here to tell us lies, but
we don't want to hear them. [ don't wish any
such language used to me, that is to tell me
such lies in my great mothers house. Don't
| you say two words more. Go back home
where you came from. This country is mine,
and I intend to stay here and to raise this
| pie here were raised with them, [again shaking
hands with the British oficers,l that is
enough. See me shaking hands with these
| people. The part of the country you gave me
you run me out of. have now come here to
stay with these, people, and I intend to stay
here. wish you to go back and to take it
| easy getting back.
On concluding his speech, Sitting
Bull advanced and took Col. Mcleod by
the hand, and walking pest the mem
bers of the commission, shook the hands
of the other officers of the mounted
police in the room, and, addressing a.
few words to his own people, sat down
among them.
The Chief Nine, Yanktonnai Sioux,
who was concerned in the Minnesota
massacre, shook hands with the Ameri-
cans and Canadians. Nine is a fine
looking savage He was dressed fam
tastically, and his face was smeared with
black paint. He spoke as follows: > =
l have shaken hands with everybody in the
house. I don't wear the same clothes that
these people do. You came over here to tell
lies on one another I want to tell you few,
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