New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1889-04-21

az Indian nature. When the last steer had la1eh
ara before many Of them had actually died, the
fndiprs poured forth into the corral with knives
batchets and axes and keeping up their savage
din, cut the bleeding cattle into pieces. Their
6rst act was to hack out the tongue, which, drip
ping with blood, some began straightway TO oe'
your Then they ripped OF the skin, and getting
fraIly TO the heart and liver, without further
csrefuony--without an oven or fire they entered
upcn feast which win not require more
extended description. The Sioux Indian may DC
eauable of attaining something like civilization.
but should prefer TO try my hand on his nleno
ard ncighbor, the coyote.
II il only fair to add that the people OF Cham-
berlain. who have watched the process OF improve
nent as it has been practised on the Brule Sioux
are agreed that q much better condition OF things
prevails OF the agency than existed even three
rears ago. The Indian police organized by Major
ffpuetss. are said to be an efficient and trust
worthy body of men. The Mayor has created a
court Of criminal offences, composed Of Big Main,
ynhn De Smit and Eagle Star, three Of the most
progressive men Of the tribe who dispense justice
according to the Interior Department code with
gratifying success. The court has plenty OF work
IN its hands. Big Main is handsome Indian and
Is regarded with much esteem by the white people.
All Dakota, North and South, is looking FORWARD
NTH the intensest interest to the opening Of the
reservation. The Dawes bin, intended TO &C
coinplish this result, has been law for TWO
years, but 1t is founded on the theory that the
Indians are not an element Of the United stapes'
brit a foreign nation. Before it can become Ell
fectsve- the consent Of three-fourths
OF the male adult Indians must De
obtained. The Government policy IS
curious tumble; with one voice we command win
another we beg. We take their children from them
aeasnst their viii and consent TO be educateo IN
the East. We establish laws for their oon'roi
ana guidance and compel them to adopt certain
modes of life. But with Supreme Court DECISIONS
ON file holding that the Indian has no fee simple
title to his land, we cannot or do not leeiSi".0
UPON his territory except by treaty. tie is n'auc
nj once subject and foreign power.
This ia what the Western people most complain
nhous It is not true that their feeling as
hoav of men is hostile to the Indian. oh Ine
contrary. they speak kindly OF him, ana
do them but meagre justice in saying that they
would be as quick as any TO resent ana oppose
measures looking 70 his injury. They are more
anxious as they have moro reason to be ANXIOUS
than ANYBODY else, for his improvement ana Tor
abe removal OF those conditions which keep MN d
worthless vagabond or savage brute ana leave
him q stumbling block in their way They want
70 HIT him up, and they ask only that their pan
be tried Seeing that the otter plan, pursucn
Cor forty years, still admits of such practices as
witnessed in that corral and that other practices
Car more revolving and offensive, such, for instance
m t:ir Sun Dance are prevented only by the eS-
efeise Of force IT may be wise at least 70 hsoen
with deference and respect to what the Westerners
ear. They say the indian youth who come back
from Hampton and Carlisle, If permitted TO get
a. al ooufrol If the agents.
speedily relapse into barbarisrn. They say the
Indian can only be induced TO prefer what Is
refining and improving TO what is gross and de-
.srsding when he peroeires that the better course
Is 70 his practical advantage. They say he must
be taught to value the dollar for what 1t viii
procure and then he will work TO get it. They
say he muss TIC divorced from his chief and made
en<nable to the general laws of the realm. He
mast understand that heredity is of no political
account In America and that he is as good in law
SO that he can see for himself what the white
mans ways by daily contact with the white man.
90 that he can see for himself what the whte
man is working for. And above all, they say, the
ruiaous system Of supporting him must be stopped.
Let him have lands and tools. Let him DO taught
how to use them. Help him in every way, bat
make him earn his living.
The Dawes bill is q long step toward this policy.
The westerners have made great progress in ILL.
pressing their views upon Washington, and they
are fun OF hope that when the East understands
them, these views win prevail. Under the Dawes
bin, so soon as the Indians consent, IL, 900 900
acres of the reservation are to be opened for settle
ment, for which the Indians are to be paid 81 o..
100000. Then they are 70 be invited TO take
hand In sevefalty, and to such as win do this the
Government will set apart SEQ acres, giving them
also a complete farming outfit $50 in money, q
team of horses and supply of seed. This is by
no means all the Western people ask They want
the land.inseveralty plan made compu sory They
wans . compulsory public school system among
the Indians. which, they say, would be easily
established and popular. They want the Govern
ment 20 stop treating with the Indian as II he were
socially and morally capable Of taking care Of
himself. they say, why support him ? Why con
trnl him? II he 10 not so capable why submit
AshteeeS judsnent7 he won't approve ts' them hem
OF course not, for be doesn't comprehend them
II he did, he wouldn't be In need Of them. But we
enough He win find II out when, through their
operation, he has cchsed 70 be a savage and has
become q man end citizen.
One commission, 1t viii be remembered appointed
20 obtain the necessary consent OF the Indians *
che opening Of the reservation failed In its quest
through the hostile influence Of the old chiefs and
their wilder followers. Another commission i,
soon TO. be appointed. Dakota is united In aslIinl
that Colonel John II. King, Of the Black Hills
fhsil be one OF It's members. He fs the champion
81 the Western idea and is at the same time In fyo
personally with the Indians. asked him the othe
aay IL he really thought there was any chance o.
making good citizen out of Sioux. The In
disn.s he said, = is smart. His eyes and ears ar'
better than ours, his mind as quick his desires ~
keen. Teach him the operation Of the law Of caus
and eject Of work and pay, and he will become ont
with us and one of u.s.
The Indian is smsrt--there can be no doubt o
chat. party of big chiefs went to Washington
last winter TO visit the Great Father One o
then. since bis return, has been dubbed Make: the
White Cb5efWait" How he acquired this tdtle h
8 fanny story. When they reached Washington
M. Villas the Secretary OF the Interior, arrange'
70 see them. Villas Is one Of those nervous
bust3inc men who never have the tenth part of
second 10 spare The indians are, above oil things
delibefafiye in ceremonial matters. When the!
we're ushered into the Secretarys room, he wheels