The Hot Springs star. (Hot Spings [Hot Springs], Dakota [Dakota Territory, i.e. S.D.]) 1886-189?, 1889-06-28
You must not expect that the
Great Council will be more liberal in the

You must not expect that the
Great Council will be more liberal in the
future than it is now. HE here exhibited
n large map Of the Sioux Reservation.
The Government asks YOU to sell that
portion marked yellow" HE pointed
out the limits of the proposed reserva-
vation for this agency. He then ex-
planned fully the provisions of the pres
ent bill, and pointed out the difference
between the present and last years bill.
He concluded: .We IRE not here to ask
your consent if you are unwilling to give
it, but the Great Father and oil your
friends among the white men believe this
bill is u good IL for YOU"
Major Warner then spoke to the In
dians. He said: my friends. the days
Of war are past, and the days of peace be-
tween the white mon and the red men
have come. The Great Father sends us
here to-day to talk with you rs one friend
talks with another. The day is past
when you can live by hunting, and now
you can only live as the white man does
by tilling the soil. The Great Father
wishes that your sons shall be taught
how to farm and become mechanics, and
your daughters shall become your school
teachers, and that the money which is
now paid to the white men shall be paid.
to your own people, and that You shall
become citizens Us the white men. He
has sent us to you to tell of this bill, and
we can neither add to it nor take any.
thing"
The following day another council was
held at which Old-Man-Afraid.of- His
Horses, Red Cloud, Little Wound, Blue
Horse, Young an-Afraid of His Horses,
and other chiefs spoke. Their talk was
o rehearsal Of their individual views as
to the promises Of the treaty of 1868.
which have not been fulfilled. They
spoke at length with the evident intent
of using mp time aud preventing an i'm.
mediate decision.
When they finished, Maj. Warner ex-
planned the provisions of that treaty.
Gen. Crook then talked to them much In
the same way as at Rosebud, and in addi-
ton explained the part Of the bill in ref
ponies, and told them 10 be careful of
any men who wanted TO get any of this
money; that advice from such men was
not worth much; that while he thought
it vas for the interest Of oil Of them that
the bill should be accepted, still the Com
misaioners wanted them to do as each
thought best. He concluded by saying
that the bill was ready for signatures.
No Flesh was the first to touch the
pen. About forty signed in twenty min
utes, when further action was deferred for
the day.
Obstinate Chiefs.
A dispatch Of Thursday, Juno 20, from
Pine Ridge Agency, states that Gov.
Foster opened the council on Wednesday
by inviting any Indians desiring informa-
tion to speak. After counseling among
themselves for e time Old Man Afraid
Of-His-H Horses. now over 80 years old.
arose and said that the paper in his hand
was given him at the time Of the treaty
Of 1868, in Fort Laramie. 1T MEANS
he said, @that after c~ultivating the ground
Of eight generations we were to become
self-supporting. There are twenty-one
years mora due on that treaty and there
is no use in going ahead Of the time. II
seems to me You are in Q great hurry Ia
start q new treaty now while there Is "a
much time before the old treaty expires. =
Red Cloud was the NEXT speaker. II
have" he said, the same sugar paper,
but here is map Of my preservation witch
was given me by the Great Father
Spotted Tail and I made that treaty oi
1868, nineteen years ago. By that treaty
wo we're to receive cattle and horses and
sheep and farming implements until thu
itseaky runs ont. Since that time ~ havl
Meds another treaty to give the 0feat
Father, lnds ~ have pay for;seyen.leen
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