The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1881-08-11
INDIAN ELooUENcE.
Address of Chief ColOrow When Invited
80 Take a Walk.
Laramie Boomerang.

| Address OF Chtef COlOFOW "hen Invited
| 30 Take a Walk.
Laramie Boomerang.
There will be a big powwow at the
White River Agency ON the 25th, at
which the Utes will decide whether they
will go away to their new home peacea-
| bly, or not.
We are permitted to publish in adj
vance the written statement of Chief
Colorow, which he will submit to the
meeting on that occasion, and give it
below:
"Gentlemen of the conference, warri-
ors and pale-faced snOoks from the land
of the rising sun: My people are cor
daily invited by the white father to pick
up their furniture and go West to grow
up with the country.
I'VE are asked to leave our lands and
take up some claims in another locality
under the desert land act.
1.-THE white father tells his children to
scoot. He says he needs these lands in
his business, and asks the red man to
gather his papoOSeS and take little eX-
cursiOn INTO a strange land.
%'The white man knows that when he
sp eaks we must obey his voice. He has
the regular army and another man to en-
force his commands.
1--WE accept the situation. The bones
of our ancestors are here. Here are our
homes. Here are the spirits of, our
dead We have handed in our remon-
STRANGE, but it won't count.
"In a few moons We must turn our
backs upon these hills and valleys, and
go to our new reservation.
white men, with their pale squaWs
and spindle-shanked papoOses, will
build their wigwans here. The pros
pectors will come here and dig holes
into the earth, and the farOer Will plant
his crooked-neck squashes above the
ashes of my people.
when the white father starts the
music we waltz to it.
"We have been asked to irrigate this
country here and hoe corn like the
white men. Our hearts are heavy, and
we cannot promote the string bean. We
will do what is right, but we cannot
work. The Indian cannot hunt the po-
tato bug when the deer and antelope
are ripe. He cannot dig post holes in
the hot sun when the chase calls upon
him to go forth into the forest.
"Here, where we have roamed through
the tall grass and hunted the buffalo, the
pale face asks US to dig irrigating ditch
es and pillow the green earth with a re-
bellious mule,
Here, where our war cry has been
answered back by the giant hills, we are
told to whack bulls and join the church
"They come to US and tell us to go TO
school and wear pants. They ask us to
learn the language Of the pale face, and
go to Congress. They send men to US
who want us to learn to spell and wear
suspenders.
ave can not do this. We are used to
the ways of our people. Our customs
are as old as the universe. We scratch
our backs against the mountain pine as
my people did a thousand years ago.
We can leave our lands, but cannot
change our socks every spring and do as
the white man does.
I'VE can go away from our homes, and
live in a strange land; but we cannot
wear open-back shirts and lead in
prayer.
1--WE will go to our new home beyond
the river now, and when the autumn
comes we will take bridal tour back to
this country.
I'VE will construct holocaust, what
ever that is, and spatter the intellectual
faculties of the ranches all over the coun-
try.
THAT is all. l am done. have made
my remarks. have twittered my twit"