The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1879-05-17
Recalling one of naycs's Massacres.

There are now Mt Washington, from Fort
Reno, Indian Territory, several Cheyenne
Indians, under LITTLE CHIEF in care OF
Agent JOIN u. MILES and CLARK the in
tcrprctcr. They represent many hundred
Indians at the Cheyenne Agency. and they
have come 20 say that their homes there arc
unhealthy. and that they want TO go back
to the northern country, where they were
born. and where the bones OF their ancestors
are buried.
Such an embassy Is n striking comment
on the prctcnccs under cover of which
Mcssrs. HAYES, ScHURz. and HAYr lately
sought to escape from their responsibility
for that hidcous crime. the Cheyenne war,
eliminating in a massacre. CARL SCHURz,
In nm official report, treated the escape OF
Dull KNlFE's band from starvation and
from fever, Mt Fort Reno Agency. as a crime
Of thieves and dcspcradocs. lie drew
sharp contrast between these fugitivcs,
whom he represented rs sullcn cutthroats,
and the remaining Indians, whom he pic
turcd as contcntcd. and with nothing TO
escape FROM Indian Commissioner HAYT
made a report also Viliying the fugitivcs,
and representing that the Chcyenncs who
remained were contcntcd and happy; and
among the leaders in this alleged state of
satisfaction was the very LITTLE CHIEF now
in Washington.
Confronted with this embassy. what new
excuse will HAYES and ScnuRz find for hav-
Ing cNtcrminatcd Indians whose offence was
that they sought t. escape swindling and
hunger Ia "a post-strickcn land?
When WILD Hoo was taken through
1
hc said that his band had left the Indian
Territory because thcy could rot get food
and because forty-cight of his people had
died Of the fcvers "Why could we not 20
We only wanted to live whore our wives and
children would not die with the fever"
When LITTLE WOLF, who with few war
rors, had made good his escape. while DULL
KNIFE's main body was captured near Fort
Robinson. surrendered, far north as the
Yellowstone. few weeks ago, he told the
officer with whom he held the preliminary
parlcy that hc was "glad he had fallen into
good hands. and that talk of peace had
come before "A fight
LiruH wotr said that his people had been south and
had suffered deal, that many had diet. and that
they lousci g. return 90 the country where they were
born there were only few OF them LETT and al they
wanted little ground where they could live. They
had let their oecs standing aud In the night
the troops following them. Linus WolF said further that
be had toll tlc troops that they ga want nght.
thIt they wanted ony north, aud that they
let alone they would kil no white men. The only
swcr was v0cY from the troops, after which they had
o. Eight their way 60 the north'
While these accounts came from the fugi-
tivcs themselves. HAYES and ScHURz could
call them the fal-choods Of incurrgiblc
maiaudcrs; but now the Cheycnnes stiu in
Indian Territory have come TO prove that
DULL KNlpE's band We're driven to war and
determination because they were escaping
from disease and death.
Judge DUNDY's decision on Tuesday in
effect stamped lIAYEs's Cheyenne war as
shocking crime, because its victims, the rcd
men, had legal right 10 the cXpatriation
which they were killed for attempting.
Double crime, then, Will it appear to be-
when these Indians are shown TO have fed
from their agency for sheer self-prcscrvation.