The silver state. [volume] (Unionville, Nev.) 1870-1903, 1879-12-30

brothers than many Others. You, are
my white boys, and here are my dask
ones. | never talk crooked. There
are great many rumors, and every
thing is upset. | have made up my
mind to live peaceably, provided am
let alone. There is no war; no trouble.
We say, one and all, we will have a
home near McDermit, or anywhere
on the Humboldt river, where we were
born. Look at us. Do we appear ike
wild animals? My people are as capa-
BILE of learning as other races. You,
my brother, who has come so far to see
rs, / think my people can tell you in
English what they think, and | hope to
live to see the day when they will be
educated. There have been agents
after agents, but none of them gave rs
land, or anything to dig up the roots of
the sagebrush. We have never had
anything of that kind from them.
Here | stand old, ready to so into my
grave; but have never been guilty OF
SIR king any OF you down, and know
my white brothers will not strike me
down. We draw straight line and
are disappointed. You promise us
good things, hut your promises are very
forked; they branch out in many differ
ent directions. We do not live in fine
houses; we are poor. That agent at
the reservation you call Malheur, wants
us to be forced to go there by soldiers.
l am old, so are you my frieml,. Tell
your Great Father that we have every
thing in abundance. We are ready at
any time to listen to the people here;
they will testify to the truth OF what
we tell you. There will be no trouble
between the Indians and whites here;
we want to live IN peace. Let me say a
| little more about Rinehart and the res
ervation, and the great promises that
are made. The Indians raised potatoes,
but he took them and every seven days
gave the Indians four potatoes, regard
less of the size of their families. If the
Government will give us land and seed
and plows near Nc Dermit, or on the
Humboldt, we will raise grain and grind
it between stones, as we did before our
white brothers came. We are living
with the whites. We never fight, and
we do not want to be promised wealth.
We are tired of promises. When you
90 home tell Washington we live here
and beg bread for our children when
we have no other means of getting it.
During the Bannock war some of our
people at Malheur joined the Bannocks.
| There was l60 Indians who made their
escape from Stein Mountain to Fort
McDermit, and told the settlers OH the
way the Bannocks overcoming. Those
Indians were taken without cause to
Yakima. We want them sent back
here, to their own country. The man
who killed Buffalo Horn, the Bannock
Chief, is now an exile from his own
country. Tom Davidson employed
many Indians, who remained peaceble,
but were taken to Yakima. We beg
of you to ask permission to have them
returned; but those hostile Indians,
who were on the war path, you
can deal with according to, Your own
laws.
CAPTAIN CHARLEY
| Said he wanted no reservation. He
got plenty of work to do, and pay for
doing it. He is able to make his own
living without assistance from the Gov
eminent, and when he cannot do that,
his white friends will give him some-
thing to eat.
! The agent asked whether they were
| opposed to Rinehart or to the place,
aud why they disliked the Malheur res
ervation.
| NACHES
Again rose to his feet and said: Nal
heur has many faults, Reinhart caused
the Indians who were at the reserva-
ton to 60 on the war path. The Indi-
ans here abhor the place, now we will
talk to the point. First bring Leggln
and his band to Malheur. / will then
go there myself and see how-things are
conducted, and if these Indians want to
90 all right. After we get settled we
will invite these to come, we do not
want Umatillas to visit us. The Warm
SPRINGS and Bannocks must keep away
and STAY on the other side of the Col
umbia and not modest US. 1t you at
tempt to force us there without cause
YOU cannot do it. This driving talk is
not right, we are all human beings.
Have the whites no hearts? One man
we crave for, that is Sam Parrish, who
treated us well. Ii he comes back we
think he would do the same thing
ayain. We were told the indians
would be brought back from Yakima,
would meet us at Malhenr in three
weeks. This was six months ago and
they have not come there yet. We want
our liberty to so when we feel like 1T
] ON the same terms as white men. l