Arizona weekly citizen., 1881-09-04
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SITTING BULL
 The Esroleoa Of The Red skinA
 In presenting, to-day, to our readers the portrait of this willy and merciles savage, we are, of course, sensible ot tn { Tact that no pleasing interest attache
 to the subject; but then, as q warrio
 and strategist beyond the boundarie , of civilization, this cruel and calculating
 Sioux Is entitled to q place in history
 notwithstanding that his career has beel
 so marked hitherto with deeds of treach cry and blood, that it were better for gotten.
 "'Ihe survival of the fittest" appear 1 to be a natural and memorable law; anC
 such being the case, it will be perceive,
 readily that the progress of civilization
 and the dominion of superior races
 cannot fail to be upheld at any cost consequently, while We would shrinl
 unfeignedly from any act savoring O injustice or oppression. we must expec
 that the savage obstacles, which. iron
 tune Co time, so mar the happiness 0
 our citizens Tn remote quarters, and s,
 obsTuct the peaceful settlement aul
 cultivation of the public domain, shal
 be swept out of existence as summarill
 as may be, wherever those who are tho
 cause of such difficulties refuse to fal into line with the requirements of hu
 manity and the age.
 Sitting Bull, the son of the chief
 Jumping Bull, and tine nephew of Pou
 Horns and Hunting His Lodge, tw,
 chiefs also, vas born in the year 1857
 g.H Efg-. .
 below the mouth of the Cheyenne river According tO his own statement, his ia
 ther was "a very rich man, and tine own
 CT Cf a great many ponies in four colors.
 When he himself was but ten years old he was famous as d hunter his speciality
 being "butialo calves" These he gave G. the poor who had no horses, and Was consequently, considered a good man On the death of his father, thirty-one years ago, he Killed buffalo. and fed Iis people, ana when he had reached lis fourteenth year, on slayiog an enemy he began to make himself great ir battle, and became a chief" for. if We are 70 credit his OWE words. although an
 Indian may be chief by inheritance he has t1 make himself one by lis deeds. From the age Of tCn Co four teen, his people called him Sacred Stand: but after he had alain this foe. they changed His naIac to Iatauk-yau-taukG. or Sitting Bull
 This sulien chief has two wives. and has had mother who has "coue to the Great Spirit. He has nine children: and what, lut-CE-laiy for ;La country, is most rare amaul A.s -..e, two Eair5 of twlns. lie has a-ssrs been faithiess and troublesome .I-tum. 2; ant after his participation il thc niGssacie Df the brave Custer and those vho fell with mm, he escaped with his warriors to Canada, where until recently, he remain ed beyond the reach of the United States Government. In an interview with him, and with one or two other chiefs, reported in the Chicago Times, We ind, fer tEc first time, the tTue de- tails Ot the wholesale slaughter of Gen eral Custer and his men; and although these details have been presented in a light the most favorable to the savages, It can readily be seen that the onslaught vas most inhUman and the deliberate act of overwhelming numbers. Now, however, that this formidable and rebel hous red skin has been starved out of Canada into the clutches of our Govern ment, we have no doubt that be will be rendered powerless Tor mischief during the remainder Of his natural life, how short or long sOever that term may be.
 Sitting Bull ayers now that he wants no more blood split, and that through the agency of a French Canadian, NIT. Lewis Legare, and the promptinCs of his own desire he recrussed the borders with his braves and surrendered him self and them to Major Brotherton at Fort Buford, in the hope of making his peace with the authorities he had SD long set at defiance. He appears, how ever, 70 be @ somewhat sUlien and ill- ia lsilct Frodigal Son, inasmuch as Le bitterly oi the treatment he had received at the hands Of those in power, and absolutely yentu es tO die tate the terms on which he all be re- ceiveC by our government. lis recross- ing tle borders, however, appears to have been more a matter of necessity than Cf choice, for prIor to thlt move he seems to have been deserted not only by many of his followers, but for the time being by his favorite daughter It is not to be supposed therefore, that be- yond the mere necessities of justice there will be much regard paid to his demands or bombast, for he has caused -he flow of too much innocent blood to anhtle him to any very special consider ltIOu in this relation.
 But now that we have so far spoken lnly from a standpoint of American civ llzatlCn, We must, on a principle of common justice, make some allowance 'Or that from which the Indian views Inc whole question. He is an uncult- rated savage, brought up in the murky lEht of untenablC traditions and taught O believe the white man natural enemy. He has never entertained the idea that here are DO rights superior to those of civilization, and that Larbarism is only .n intruder wherever the light of prog oss dtiuses its glorious beams. Iano- ance, superstition and ru1l-v can have 10 maiiolablC rights beyond those per aiming to life and liberty. Hence. the 'arbarous nomads that pcTsisteutly keep 'eyond the pale of civilization in this country have mo trre right in the soil. 1t lavlng to the last acre fallen conquest Q tEe mTlnclhle armies Cl progress. Yet l lave no doubt that our government nav. n its generosity, take the low moral and | status of the red man into l consideration, and look upon even the | umes and treacheries of Sitting Bull 1 nth some degree of leniency.
 It will be perceived from our encrav- l 1g, or rather from the grotosque sketch ! incorporated with it, that although this | efractory Sioux may he great warrior e IS but avery poor artist. This sketch | } fac simile of one made by his own and, and is, as may be diyined, repre- entatlOn or memorial If some act of IS prowess. Evidently he here repre- ants himself in the light of con ueror, who contemplates with fierce ride and saSage complacency the silent lndrows of his fallen enemies. But all lch representations must be taken cum rano. for like his eastern progenitor, ie Indian Is full of hypocrisy and eIag- aration.