The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1884-09-27

After the unfinished business
had been disposed of, Standing
Elk arose and spoke as follows:
"WARRIoRS-The agent informs
me that he has received a call
from the Secretary of the Interior
for thirty more Sioux children to
be sent East to be educated.
"Do we want this Do we want
our young to grow up a nation of
dudes and Gudesses Do we want
our young men to discard the rifle
for the spelling book and the
breecb-eloth of their fathers for
the tight pants and pointed shoes
of the pale facet Nol
sThe Great Spirit made the In
dian as he is, and the white man
should never try to patent an i'm.
provement on the original inven-
tion. He made the red man after
His own form and the pale face is
but bogus imitation. The Indian
is the genuine human. and all 9TH
ers are spurious counterfeits got.
ten up to deceive the public.
"But few years ago we were
as happy as the songbirds that
awake us in the morn with their
heaven-born music. We were as
free as the gentle breezes that
kissed our cheeks with soft, feath.
cry lips, and soughed in dreamy
whispers amid the wild grasses
and bright flowers Of our native
land. Our cares were as light as
the down upon the breast of the
cooing dove, aud our troubles
were as tleeting as yonder clouds
which fieck the blue dome of
Heaven with passing whlteness.
Look at us now, Ma! [Sobs.l
"And why the changef Why
has our freedom vanished, aud
why has our happiness gone where
the woodbine of the pale. face
twinethf Why doth trouble hang
over us like a sixty-day mortgage,
and care pursue us like an aveng-
ing Nemesis, whatever that may
be 7
at is because the pale-face GOV.
eted our lands and came out and
worked their confidence games on
us to such an extent that we are
now cooped up on this reser vation
so thick that we must move out
over the border to get room to
scratch our backs.
Sand now they ask MS to allow
our children to imbibe this same
civilization which has ruined us
They ask us to send our loved of.
spring to the East to learn to play
suckers even as their parents
were played.
"My own loved daughter was
one of the first to go to the far
Eastern school of the pale.face.
She was as fair a creature as ever
made toed.in track in the sands
of our reservation. Her hair fell
in cataract over q pair of burnt
umber shoulders that a Queen of
Sheba would envy, and her eyes
were as bright as any diamond
that ever exhibited its imprisoned
rays in the famous mines of the
far of eastland. Her mouth was
a grotto of love too beautiful to
associate with the stewed tripe
which it daily engulfed, and her
form was cast in natures most
perfect mould. Her voice was as
the ripping waters which flash in
crystal beauty over the bright.
hued pebbles in yonder canon,
aud her laugh !--Oh, saw my leg
of.
"For three long years she was
in that school, and then the child
tho innocent, untutored child Of
15-returned to me just budding
into womanhood. When she ran
down the stage plank of the steam
boat to meet me she seemed a
fairy queen of loveliness, and
when she turned and threw a kiss
to the clerk of the boat and cried
ia, Ia, Georgyv | thought | had
never beheld anything SO beau
tiful.
"And then she flew toward me,
and her first salutation was !:
why, you dear, darling old snoo.
ger, tip us your fin and hit us
right near the nose with a rousing
old buss. / wish l had as many
dollars as / am glad to see you.
Say, you forgot to put on your
breeches this morning. didn't you y
"Then my heart sank within me.
and my soul was sad / asked her
in our native tongue if she was
well, and she replied: "Oh cheese
that lingo, and talk United States |!
Of course Pm well. DO | look
like hospital galootf How's her
nobs, the old woman
81 told her that her mother was
well, and asked her how she liked
the school. She replied: "Oh, it's
way up! It's nifty, and don't you
forget it, Guyner! And they've
| got the boss mob of girls there,
you bet! You can slug me in the
seventh rib if they don't take the
cake over anything in Americap
"Warriors, this is the education
of the pale-facel This is the civil
zation they ask us to take into
our homes and nourish. Will we
do iti Loud cries of mol new
errl
"Then let us arouse and protest
against it until our earnest pro-
tests paint the universe red! Let
us yell our disapproval until the
arched dome of heaven trembles,
and the stars are shaken from
their sockets Let US act at once,
and if our protests are not needed
let us sacrifice every child on the
reservation. Let us sink them
beneath the musky bosom of the
broad Missouri and swear upon
our bended knees before high
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