Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, D.T. [N.D.]) 1878-1884, 1884-02-29
sioux COUNCIL.

SIOUX COUNCIL.
The bill before the council being one for tho
establishment and support of an agency school,
Crow That Flies High spoke as follows:
''MR. CHAIRMAN: have sat in this council
so long that have twice been compelled to
take my chair to the agency carpenter and have
the corns planed from the seat and in all my
as this.
''What do we want with public school? Will
it add to the power and prosperity of the great
Sioux nation to increase its collection of bric-a-
brao by the addition of two-story school
house and q teacher who has been scalped by
the remorseless hand of time !? No!
II have seen the evil effects of education. and
as long as my lungs are in good working order,
my voice will ever be heard in condemnation
of its pernicious influence. As long as I am
able to stand on my feet and strike an attitude,
will put up my props and give it q black eye.
'Mr. Chairman, I once had q daughter. She
was a. lovely as the first blush of q summer
morn, and possessed figure that merchant of
Venice would envy. Her eyes were as bright ~
the twinkling stars with which night pins on
erssables mantle, and her voice was as low and
musical as the purling waters of the brooks of
the Bad Lands. Her hair, black as the wing of
the raven which sails DER the reservation, fell
about her brunette shoulders in cloud of sable
beauty and coquettishly tickled the small of her
horo okvpro IF 1irn
loveliness in whose depths could read every
emotion of her pure and spotless soul. loved
her with love as boundless as the gall ola sena-
torial Indian commission. She was the idol Of
my heart; the queen of my soul; aye she was
the ore being upon whom lavished all of the
choice samples cf my great northwestern love.
wouldn't have traded her for the best pony in
exhorbitant boot. Thelfutqre had planned for
her was trimmed with the rosiest sunshine and
dadoed all over with imported figures of extatic
bliss; future so bright and beautiful that
when in my reflective moments I.would sit and
contemplate it, it would make me sneeze.
had pictured her as queen among her people;
as superior being before whom others would
bow in abject homage and meek humility.
"But alas
I'm an evil moment listened to the teachings
of missionary between whose forehead and the
back of whose neck there was no preceptible di-
viding line, and sent her east to the female SEM
mary of of the palefaoe. Mysheart bled wheu1
saw her doff the pants of the army and assume
the cllngipg skirts of civilization, but felt it
was for her own good and drove my
aching heart from its Judgment in my throb
bing throat with a swallow Of agency rum.
II gazed upon her as..she stood
logged out in paleface dress,
But knowingYtwas for Nitas good
Iswallowed my distress.
The clinging corset held her fast
In close and fond embrace,
And her hustle loomed into the past
From the suburbs of her waist.
1T was sad and heart -wrenching sight, but
the man with the holy n1outh pointed upward
and told me to look there for trust and as it was
the only place in al! the wide universe where II
could get trust, obeyed him.
s'In few months received the first blessed
missive from Nits, written by her own dear
hand. True her education YVES yet in its infan-
cy and the woids looked crude and were
somewhat tangled up in spelling,
but it WAS from my treasured idol and was all
the world to me. 1t ran briefly as follows:
"'Dere paw kant rite As fly as Sum off the
olde Timers, But yoo bett you're Sox i'm the
Dandy reder And Speler and Kan Took inglis
ike A perfessionle-yu.e Affechinat and luvin
dotter-Nita.'
"How my heart topped with all the more ten
der emotions as read the loved lines! How
my oul tugged at its prison bars and tried to
get out to have time as I scanned the dear
words.
"a few months later came another, and my
heart was sad. I was dazed when l read it, and
almost cursed the day when allowed the script
ure herder to cap me into the game. saw
that she was falling into the refined customs of
our hated foe, and thatth future had so fond
" pictured for her was but heetlpg phantom
which was fast dying from my vision. re-
preached myself in terms of cutting bitterness
and went out behind the lodge and kicked my
pants until sank upon the ground exhausted.
This time she wrote:
".DEAR PAPA: Your little bunch of sweetness
is getting along as nifty as can be. Send mo
$40 dollars, for I've got to dress as good as the
other girls, or my name will be Dennis with tho
boys. I've got the loveliest beau gentle mai
den ever mash,d, and the way he slings his
money for caramels and ice cream is q caution.
send the money q'ick, You dainty old dar-
ling.-N1TA.'
"Mr Chairman, those lines ripped the
stitching in my heart in a cruel manner, but
they were as balm to wounded soul or a.
warm poultice to an ambitious boil compared
to the last one, which reached me but two
weeks ago. She had been in the school but two
short years, and wrote me as follows:
."sMY RESPECTED PRoaEN1ToR: The nnthro-
poidal complaoency which efervescinglv de-
teriorates in antediluvian and excoriating mol-
tiplicity and inanimadv ertantly controls tho
iniudicious elasticity which equalizes the