Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1890-12-08
UNDER TRUCE
Hostile Chiefs Meet General
Brooke In Conference.
1 Catholic Priest Brings About ths
leetiD6.
Premises OF Plenty to Eat Do Not Con.
vince the HostiIss.

| OMAHA, Neb., Dec. The Bee has q
| dispatch from = special CORE spondent OF
the Pine Ridge sgeney that says: Some
hostile chiefs have kept q sworn pledge
made to Father Jute in Bad Lands, to come
| in and see General Brooke.
| Friday Father Juse, Catholic prizes;
whom General Brooke requested to go ou;
and tslk with the hostile Indians, returned
from bis mission after a most perilous ex-
pefience.
| Father Jute asked the chiefs the psrticu
lar cause of their grievance and replies were
| substantially to the effect tha. recent census
returns made by Mr. Lee are unfair and
will net allow them sufficient food to live
on; that the new boundary line betwesn
Rosebud and Pine Ridge agencies compels
many Of the Indians to leave their homes
and give them to others, and 10 also Q vio.
laiion Of the old treaty that they are done
with promises from the whites and declare
they will not lay down their arms as they
fear they would be punished and imprison.
ed by the whites
| Friday they all agreed to come to Father
Jute's house and there meet General Brooke
and talk with him.
They came bearing flag of truce and
| armed with winchesiers and Springfield ri
fes. The party included Turning Bear,
Big Turkey, High Pine, Big Bad Horse,
Bull Dog and Two Strikes. All were dec
| GRATED with war paint and feathers and
many wore ghost dance leggins and ghost
dance shirt dangling at the saddles. The
council lasted two hours. Gen. Brooke
explained that a great deal of misunder-
standing ard trouble had arisen by reports
taken to and from between camps by ire
sponsible parties and he considered il very
necessary that they have q talk face
to face. Through him he said
that the Father wanted to tell them that if
they would come in near the agency where
he, Gen. Brooke. could see them often and
not be compelled to depend on herarsay. he
| would give them plenty to eat and employ
many of their young men as scouts, etc.
He said he heard they were hostile Indians,
but did not believe it. The soldiers did not
come there to fight, but to protect the set
tiers and keep peace. As to the feeling
over the change 10 the boundary line be-
tween Pine Ridge and Rosebud agency, he
said that that and many other things could
be settled satisfactorily after they had
shown the disposition to come in, as asked
by the Great Father. Wounded Knee was
suggested as place that would be salts
factory TO the Great Father to have them
live. The representatives. of the bostlles
listened with contracted brows, sidelong
glances at one another, and low grunts.
Turning Bear spoke in reply. 1t would be
bad thing for them to come nearer the
agency, because there was no water or
grass for their horses here. He could not
understand how their young men could be
employed as scou's if there was no enemy
TO be watched. They would be glad to be
employed and get paid for it. They might
come in, but as the old men and old
women have no horses and as their people
have nothing generally to pull wagons, it
would take them long time to come. If
they should come they want the great
father to send horses and wagons out to the
Bad Land camp to bring in the great guam
titles of beef, ETC.. which they had there,
and take it anywhere to the new camp that
might be agreed upon. The speaker hoped
that they would be given something to eat be
fore they started back. To this the General
replied that he had intended before the coun-
Gil closed to tell them they should be given
food. As for horses and wagons being sent
after beef. the general said that and many
other things will be considered after they
have acceded to the great fathers request
to move into the agency, Any reference
predations. theving and burning of build
will be studiously avoided on both sides.
After the pow WOW the thieving gang will
be conducted to the quartermasters depart
ment and given big fat feed.