The south Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1879-1883, 1881-08-23
TaE SOUTH KENTUCKIaA.
ADVERTISING A RATE.
INDIAN zLoouaNcE.
Address Of Chief cOlcrow When In
vited to Take a Walk.

Laramie Boomerang: There will
be IL big ,pow-wow etihc-Wbilc River
Agency on the twenty-liith, atwhich
time, the Utes will decide whether
they will go away to their new lands
| peacaLly OF not. f.i,-, i
We are permitted TO publish In adj
vance tic wri,ienstatement OF Chief
Color0w, which he will submit to the
meeting OH that OCCASION, and give it
| below. - !. g r sls
"Gentlcmen of the Conference, war.
riors and Pale-iaced Snoots from tho
Land oflhe Rising Sunny people
are to-day cordially invited by tho
white father 10 pick up thciriurni-
iure and 20 West and grow up w,tl
tile country. -,
We are asked 10 leave Our lands
and take up some claims III auo,her
locality under thu desert and act.
The white father tells his children
to scoot. Ile says he needs tberc
lands in his business, and asks The red
man TO gather his papooscs and tax !,
little excursion into strange land.
The white man knows that when
he speaks we must obey his voice.
lie has the regular army and another
man TO enforce his coikmands.
We accept the situation. The bones
Of our ancestors are here. Here are
our homes. Here are The spirits OF.
our dead. We have banded in our
rcmonstrance. but 1t wont count.
In "a lew moons VIC must turn our
backs upon these hills and valleys
aud 30 " our new reservation.
White men with thcir pale squaws
and spindle-shanked pnpooseS, will
build their wigwams here. The pros
pector will come here AMI dig holes
in the earth, and the farmer viii plant
his crook-neck squashes above the
ashes OF my people.
When the white father starts tho
music, we waltz TO il.
We have been asked to Irrigaie Tho
country here and hoe corn like tho
white man. Our hearts are heavy,
aud We can not promote tho string
bean. We will do what is right, but
we cannot work. The Indian calno,
hunt the potato.bug when The deer
lnnd antelope arc ripe. llerannoi dig
post-holes in the hot sun when the
rhase calls upon him 10 90 forth into
The forest.
4 Here where we have roamcd
through the tall grass and hunted tho
deer and buffalo, the pale-fare asks us
10 dig irrigation bitches and plow tho
green earth with rebclliOus mule.
| Here, where our war cry has been
answered back by the gfint hills, we
are told 10 whack bulls aud join tho
chur:h.
They come 10 us and tell us to 90 TO
school aud wear pants. They ask us
TO learn the language and 20 to Con-
gross. They send men TO us who want
us 10 learn to spell and wear bUs-
Ipcnders.
We cannot do this, we are nscd to
the ways of our people. Our Gus
toms are as old as tho universe, VIZ
scaatch our back against the nlnun-
tain pine as my people did thou
sand years ago. We cannot change
We can ltave our land, bur we cannot
change our socks every spring and Dc
as the white mandoes,
We can go away from our homes
and live in Grange land, bni We
canot wear opeu back shirts and lead
in prayer.
Warriors, we will go 10 the lant
our white father has given us. W.
will take our squaws and our yellow
dogs, our wigwams and our fleas.
We will 90 TO cur new home he
yond the river now, ind when The
+ autumn comes we will take u brida
, tour back to this country.
We will construct. q holycausf
whatever that is. ami ,spaiier the in
tcllectual faculties of the rancliers al
over the country.
This is all. j am done. hav,
made my remarks. have twittcrct
my twit."