The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1885-08-19


TO pay his fine. He should be put into the
guard-house ard not take his horse from
him. These young men are poor and can't
pay their fines. There is Rain-in-the-Face
and I-if we do wrong the police is there to
arrest us, God has given us ex-
We don't want white men to come
and take our land. Many of the Indians
are willing to work, but are destitute of i'm
plements. !, myself, have helped a great
many with my team. In looking around
you will see that great many are poorly
dressed. Yes, they have worn out their
clothes working. All these men are willing
When you get home tell the Great
Father to take away his soldiers and abolish
his police. They are not needed. There is
GREAT WRONG
on the east side of the river. 1t was done by
the Great Father who died (Garfield). He
allowed whisky 10 be sold there. Our men
go there when the river is frozen and drink
this whisky. The whisky is bad and it makes
them sick, and sometimes they freeze their
toes. Then our father (agent) Furnishes them;
but the white man who sells it is not pun
ished This is bad business for the Great
Father.
As you are sent by the Great Father, you
must be rich men. As you are rich men
you could make us all happy. You could
treat lis to tobacco and open your hearts
and give our women something to eat
Mr.. Holman replied as follows: 81 have
heard what you had to say. and will COM
municate it to the Great Father and the
Great Council. You have spoken well. 1t
may be that there is some misunderstanding
about this Black Hills treaty, but the Great
Father and Great Council are anxious to
right the wrongs" When this Fort Rice
treaty was made ii was understood that the
M rnrlg Qhn fna
customs of the whites. The Sioux
Indians seem anxious to become civilized,
and the Great Father is anxious to promote
their interests. We are anxious that you
should adopt the customs of the whites,
plow the lands, raise crops, herd cattle, and
send your children to school, and that you
should treat your wives well, and
divide their burdens This is
what the white men do. The
Great Father will provide you with
all the horses, males, cows, wagons and
other implements that you are willing to
use.
THE white people have become great and
rich by labor, and the Indians, too will be-
come great and rich if they will work and
send their children to school.
DOWN EAST
there are many white people who have no
lands, and sometimes have nothing to eat.
Yet they do not ask the Great Father to help
them. If they had your lands they would
soon become rich. They would work and
send their children to school,
The Standing Rock reservation is part
of the great Sioux country lying
between the Cannon Ball and the
the Grand River, east of the Missouri, and
contains 10000 square miles of good grazing
and agricultural lands. There are about
5000 Indians on it, divided into four tribes,
and are the most prosperous of the Sioux In
how ofc in,
common, 1900 ponies, cultivate LOO acres
of land, and cut 1900 tons of hay,
and many have built good log houses.
Under the treaty of 1868 each Indian who
cultfvates a farm should have house with
two rooms and two stoves, cattle, wagon, and
a steamboat for the whole people. Although
800 have taken up farms, only 80 have been
thus provided for. Again, the same treaty
provides a school-hOuse and teacher for
every thirty children of school age, yet
of the 900 children of school age, only 260
are Accommodated, leaving 740 unprovided for
There are only eight school-houses, while
there should be thirty-three according to
the treaty. Only one-eighth of the children
90 to school for want of room. If there were
schools enough the children could be com
PEELED to attend by withdrawing
the parents ratiOns for nOn-at-
tendance. The stomoch of an Indian
can be appealed to when other measures fail.
n
charge of the Sisters, and have made so much
progress that Mr.. Cannon says that
ALL INDIAN SCHOOLS
should be in the hands of the Sisters as In
dian children seem to advance more rapidly
under their care. The Indians here,
as well at Devils Lake,
are under Catholic influence. The agency
is i'm charge of Major Mclaughlin, who has
been in the Indian service for fifteen years.
He and his wife and their children speak
the Sioux language like the natives. The
Major is a Democrat but held his position
under Republican rule because he was
recommended by the Catholic Church, which
always had the control of this agency.
His Democracy and his record as an agent
will undoubtedly secure for him another
term. Among those who attended the
council was Miss Grace Howard. of New
York daughter of old Joe Howard of procla-
nation fame. Miss Howard is spending the
summer with the Sioux Indians. She
has undertaken TO civilize the whole tribe
Ste sent several to the Hampton school ana
adopted one which she sent TO her home in
New York to raise. MY father" she said.
''sent me to the Sioux Reservation TO cure
me of what he called
''INDoNANIA,"
but / have been with them three months
and / am more interested in their cause
than ever. The agent says will
get rid of this poetic idea III
year, but l will disappoint him.
Mr. Holman does not think that the good
Indian is the dead one. but that the Indian
problem can be solved by feeding the old
men and teaching the young ones to work.
Mr. Holman and the committee will visit all
the agencies before Congress convenes- The
object of this visit is TO inquire into the con-
dition of the various tribes, whether they
would be willing to remove into Indian Ter
ritory, whether they would take lands
in severalty, and whether it would be better
for the Indians and cheaper for the Govern
ment to educate the children on the reser-
vation than in the East. The committee
has already inspected Pine Ridge, Rosebud.
Crow, Devils Lake and Lower Bruli
Agencies. The Devils Lake and Standing
Rock Agencies they find in excellent con-
dition. p. H. z.