St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-11-10
A Little Indian Talk to Re-
lieve the Dizziness Of
~
Politics.
The Half-Breed Interpreter q
Character of Consider I
able Interest. d
It Is Believed They Will YET
Accept the Terms Of
fered Them.
They Are Reported to BIG
Making Fair Progress in
the White Ways. I

Special to the Globe. 4
ABERDEEN, Nov. 9.-During the pas
two weeks the political situation has
absorbed the public mind to the eXclu
sion of every other topic, including thai
most important theme to Dakotans-the
negotiations with the Sioux bands fol
the opening Of the reservation.
With the passage of the great national
contest the theme regains its original
interest. The
STANDING ROCK INDIANS
passed through Aberdeen in going and
returning from Washington. On the
homeward trip the Indians we're il,
charge of Primeau, the interpreter, with
whom the Globe correspondent had a
long and interesting talk about thetreaty
and the sentiment of the indians with
reference to the sale of their lands.
Primeau is man of marked intelli-
gence and no mean attainments. The
son of French trader and Sioux
sQuaw, he was born and reared upon
the reservation, and is the member of
the tribe, entitled to all theF privileges
and property rights of an Indian. Pri-
meau is fine
SPECIMEN OF THE HYBRID. M
He is slightly above medium height,
strongly built, and betrays his French
blood in the grace of his carriage and
the outline of his features. Young and
debonair, in beaded buckskin coat,
with broad, white felt hat drawn care,
lessly over his bronzed brow, Louis
Primeau is an ideal half-bloOd and
might pass for one of the sun-bronzed
gallants of the plains, the cowboys, SO
slight are the traces of his Sioux anceS-
try. Primeau, while not u talkatiye
man, cOnverses pleasantly and lis thor
oughly posted upon all questions af-
fecting the treaty. I'VE were crowded
for time at Washington,p said he. ut
has been anything but
A PLEASURE TRIP,
for most of our time was spent in dis
cussing the governments propositions.
1t the election excitement and the in
terest felt by the officers of the interior
department had not hurried the DELHI
eratiOnS of the Indians, / am certain
that John Grass and the other chiefs
from Standing Rock would have sue
ceeded in winning over the other chiefs
to the acceptance of the last PROPOSE
ton, provided the government would
pay tor the lands outright.
1.-The ground of objection was to the
clauses providing for deferred pay
ments. The Indians insist to dispose of
their lands outright if at all.''
In answer to question as to the prob
able success of the allotment-in-seY-
crafty plan, Primeau said that the In
dams were making good progress under
the present unfavOrable conditions.
Many of the Indians had already
LOCATED UPON FARMS,
and were making good Roadway in
farming and stock raising. They lacked
sufficient wagons and farm implements,
and the uncertainty of their tenure
tended to discourage effort.
The element of barDarism, which re-
sists all progress and frOwns upon any
measure which threatens to destroy
their tribal relations, Primeau explained
by saying that Indians of the Black
feet bands were constantly coming
from the northern border to mingle with
their kinsmen about the agencies. Sit
ting Bull is one of the hostiles who
came from the British possessions some
ten years ago. He has gathered about
him following OF the nOn-progressiye
and late hOstileS, but has greater name
and
REPUTATION ABROAD
than upon the reservation.
While Primeau evaded the expression:
of direct opinion as to the probable
acceptance of the treaty, he evidently
believes that the chiefs will soon de-
eide when left to themselves to accept