The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1877-09-29

This what the great council Of my nation believed
! have fulfilled tuat promise. Your supplies have
been carried TO the Missouri RIVER and there they
now according 70 our promise You say th1t do not
like 10 60 TO tho Missouri River. Bui your supplies
cannot be taken TO any other place before your people
viii need them ana before tho cold days OF winter
come.
THEY MUST BE xovxp.
you DO not 20 near the place whero your supplies
are your people Will DO hungry and shall not be able
10 give them food. desire 10 ali for you and
therefore want you to be IN place This winter where
mean that you and your people shall stay
near the Missouri River always. You shall
stay there only TINS winter when sprue comes you
xhail select Tor your permanent abode such land on
your reservation as you like best. Ny agents will aid
you 10 making the SELECTION Your country IL largo
and there IS mucn land where YOU can cultivate tho
soil and raise crops. and where cattle be led That
land ID to be distributed among YOU 1t is 10 be
voyed and allotted 20 each family to DO It's homestead
There your people can build cabins and mako homes
Tor their families 10 dwell In. When that Land
veyed and allotted aud your families have taken pos
TO give you COWS, and tools with which til
the SOIL that you may be able provide your
children, 80 that they may be- educated to take care Of
themselves anu become industrious and prosperous,
IKE me children OF ny people. ! also wish
worship shall speak q good word Tor you
TO tho great council OF my nation, That
are wise you viii heed my advice Game Is fast dis
appearing from your country, you cannot always
live az hunters Neither can we for all time provide
drcn. II you want 10 live in security you do no
the white people do. You must work and learn to
produce Tor yourselves that which you need. Cattle
and and poughs will more useful to you tina
ponies and guns. To be educated to know how
to work and how to mako their own living, by raising
cattle aud tiling the SOIL will be better Tor your chill
dren than hunting buffalo and dancing tho Dance
When you look around you you will that the
white people arc great multitude, which you
cannot coan. Every year this number Is Increased
by tar than the number OF all the rcd meu in
this great land. They canno. DC kept away from tho
nfl NJ . ham,
there. II you live roaming about without homes they
viii sweep over you like u great hood OF waters TO
sustain yourselves against that hood you must have
homes IN which you and your families may perma-
ncntly live and land on which to raise that winch
necessary TO support YOU Then you will have hrm
ground to stand upon and the food Will not sweep you
away am a good TREND to you and your people,
and a. good TREND give you this answer aud advice
FOR THE ARAPAn0Es.
Now Will speak word To the Arupahoea
You desire 20 go West with your people to join the
Shoshonos and live with them AS irenas But II you
20 you must provide for your own support. Tho
great council OF my nation has given money 10
aid you on your way. lf without such aid you Will
CO. and the agent whom have sent 10 tho Shoshones
shall also DO the agent tor you You have been
good friends TO the white people and hope will re-
main so. You all have the bost wishes OF my heart
Let US 1.-Two IN peace and friendship together, and
will protect you with all the power l have. heard
yesterday morning that forty lodges Of people Of
Crazy Horse and Lame Deer have gone north. As
long a. these people are north We do not know our
friends from our enemies among them. II Is OF the
people " tho agencies Thon know that your hearts
are right. That will mako you strong with INC. Il is
impossible for to let those people 20 W into tho
Tongue River country until know they arc all
our friends IL Is necessary that all of tho Indians
should Ga down In the direction OF tue River
to get tner supplies SO as " be ready early In tho
spring TO select the best lands on White RIVER snd
other places ON the reservation for cultivation
Tue CONFERENCE ENDED
During the address the Indians smiled broadly when
tho President said ITO be better educated 10
know how to work and gain their own living by rails
ing cattlo and tlng the soil Will 10 better tor your
children than hunting buffalo and dancing the war
Dance" The conference hore closed.
REPORTED DISSATISFIED.
Tho delegations Will have nna conference with the
President tomorrow. and will then present thor re-
ply 10 tho Presidents ggcsons with regard their
removal from their present location and IL ID said
they Will ask for some notifications OF the proposi-
lions which were submitted to them TO- day.