The silver state. [volume] (Unionville, Nev.) 1870-1903, 1879-11-28

what she Says OF the Wrengs Of uer
Tribe
From the San Francisco Chronicle

| 'NN III WIG ia
the address by Sarah, daughter of Chief
Winnemucca, delivered in Platts Hall.
The Princess wore a short buckskin
dress, the skirt bordered with fringe
and embroidery, short sleeves, disclos-
ing beautifully-rounded brown arms,
and scarlet lcggins, with trimmings of
| fringe. On her head she wore a proud
head-dTess of eagles feathers, set in a
! scarlet crown, contrasting well with
| her flowing black locks. The lecture
was anlike anything ever before heard
in the civilized worid-eloquent pa
| thetic, tragical at times at others her
quaint anecdotes, sarpasns and wonder
full mimicry surprised the audience
again and again INTO bursts OF laughter
and rounds Of applause. There was no
set lecture from written manuscript,
but a spontaneous flow OF eloquence.
Natures child spoke in natural, urcon-
strained language, accompanied by
gestures that were scarcely ever sur
passed by any actress on the stage.
The constraint which was naturally ex-
pected by the audience in one. unused
to facing the public, was nowhere visi-
BILE as the Indian girl walked upon tile
stage IN an easy, unembarrassed man
ner, and entered at once upon the story
of her race. The story Of her child
hood, the strange childhood of an In
| dian maiden, was charningly tcld, the
story Of the first white man who ever
appeared in the native haunts of her
race being a prominent remembrance.
The Pintes were living peaceably and
happily on the grounds of their fore
fathers. Fer grandfather, who accom-
panied General then Captainl Fremont
through the Mexican war-being christ
ened by tia litter Captain Truekee"
was their Chief at the time. When
the news spread that
WHITE MAN
Was approaching the excitement be-
came intense. They were ready tohail
with affection ami hearty cordiality the
white brother" whose approach had
long been foretoll to them, Her grand
father went to meet the white man
threw down his weapons and reached
out to him his hand. The white man
would not take it. Sadly tie aged
chief returned to his people. He said,
"our white brother has come, but he
viii not accept our welcome" But
nevertheless he cautioned the Indians
to do him no harm The next whites
who came were a train of emigrants
Captain Truckee was away and Winnie
mucea WAS acting as chief in his alb
sense. The emigrants fired upon the
Indians and killed one and wounded
two. She remembered how they fled
to the hills to escape the emigrants
The children could not run fast enough,
so her mother stopped and dug holes in
the sand, into which she pat Sarah and
her little cousin, screening them with
saqebrush. While white children were
being taught to dread and fear the In
dams, the little Indian children were
having instilled into their minds by all
they saw and heard the greatest horror
Of the whites. They We're taught that
the whites would kill and eat them if
they caught them. So in mutual mis-
apprehension their lives went on The
white men who sought the frontiers
were as rule the very scum of eivih-
zation-men who could not be tolerated
among their own people. Constant
outrages ON Indian mothers and daughtr
ers and sisters occurred and the I'M
taught race felt daily stronger sense
of wrong and indignation towards the
whites growing in their breasts. 'Oh,
my dear friends, said the speaker with
passionate earnestness, the tears
streaming down her cheeks, ''you little
know what we have to live through. |
People come to the frontier who can
live with you 10 longer. Do you think
those Indians have no feelings when
cruel hands are laid on their mothers,