Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1891-01-28
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Pine Ridge. This was the only place We could
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| THE GHOST DANCE.
"Big Road tod the truth about the dance.
We do not want to fight the whites The police
at Rosebud lied about the dance; Big Road
talked straight. When "Three Stars General
| Crook and two other men were here to talk
about our giving up more land did not want
| to talk with them / wanted to talk with the
Great Father himself. Thirteen years ago
was in Washington and the Great Father told
me to come to see him when we wanted to talk
1 about treaty.
"Many things are not right at Rosebud. The
annuities are always late. We used to be
PAID In money for hauling goods tc the agency,
Dut now the agent gives US orders on the store
ana the post trader gets too much, the Indian
not enough. There was agent once who
gave Us great deal-one beef for every ten
people. That was years ago. Now there is
only one beef for thirty people, and it is not SO
good TO eat. Texas steers are small and poor;
we don't want them any more. Major Lee
capt Jesse NJ. Lee. ninth United States infah-
Try, was the best agent We ever had. He took
good care of US. We are glad to see him here
Mt Fine Ridge. He is a good and just man.
Whatever he told us was true. We would like
TO have him at Rosebud again. We know him,
ana IL he IL agent there again we will gladly re-
turn and be with him. I did not want to fight
I
we stayed at Rosebud there would have been
| fighting there, for some of us were very mad,
especially our young men. 1t has been said
that we destroyed houses and furniture at
Rosebud That is not true. The half-breeds
and bad white men did that and said it was we
| who did it,
The men who have caused all this trouble
are LouisYellow-Eye Tom and Billy .half-breeds
Then there is white man. brother in-law
OF Maj. Lees interpreter. Bob Dyer is another;
he is the boss herder. He drinks whisky all the
time and abuses the Indians he does not like.
Louis Richaud and Louis Burdo, both half
breeds. are responsible for many lies about u.s.
Several Brule Indians are very bad and they
| try all the time to get myself and Two Strikes
in trouble. Their names are He-Dog, Bull
Head, Good Eagle Bare Head and Hollow-horn
Bear. If the Great Father would send them
away we would get along nicely. Crazy Elk,
| Thunder Hawk and Good Shield are also very
| bad indeed. Some of the employees ought to
! be chang ed and good ones put in their places.
The employees were all good when Maj. Lee was
agent"
Maj. Lee always gave us plenty of beef"
walled Two Strikes.
ID LONG BULLS TALE.
Long Bull, Minnecongue Sioux who es-
capped from the battle of Wounded Knee, told
how the Big Foot band came to leave Cheyenne
| river. He said: 1--WE did not like the way we
were treated Mt Cheyenne river. Our rations
were poor and many hearts we're bad. Red
Cloud had sent to us to say that If we were not
well treated we might come TO Pine Ridge and
live. We were at our homes when a white man
came to u.s. do not know his white name, but
his Indian name is Red Beard-and he said the
| soldiers were coming to fight, we had better
get out. Then we came to Wounded Knee and
had that fight. We did not want to fight. The
| soldiers said we must give up our guns and
some OF us did. had no gun. Then the SOL
dlers went into the tepees and kicked the beds
| about and upset everything great deal. Some
Indians had guns under their blankets, hiding
| them. for an Indian thinks much Of his gun.
The soldiers used the Indians very roughly
! and made them mad, until by and by ''Sits
| Straight" (the medicine mani gave the signal
to shoot. Big Foot did not want to fight; he
was sick. We were prisoners all the night be-
| fore and in our tepees we talked peace. Among
ourselves we said we would give up all the guns,
for We did not expect to fight. Indians much
like white men. They get mad when a man
hurts them and tears their clothes and pulls
| their guns away. That made us fight"
HUMPS ACCOUNT OF IT.
The big Cheyenne river chief, Hump, did not
care to talk before the others, SO interviewed
him apart from the crowd. Hump is un-
doubtedly one of the best Indians in the north
west. Previous to 1877 he q hostile OF the
most pronounced description, but in that year
he surrendered with Crazy Horse to Gen. Miles
at Fort Keogh. He fought with the army
against the Nez Perces in the Snake creek fight,
in the Bear Paw mountains and was wounded.
He was also in the battle at Rosebud, Mont.
big Foot, said he, left Cheyenne river be-
cause he wanted to dance. Red Cloud and
others had been writing to him to come here,
and Big Foot thought it meant that there would
be fighting at Pine Ridge. There was a great
deal Of discomfort among the Indians at
Cheyenne River agency. Rations were issued
once q month and they were very small. There
was a little -four and beef every month Some
times there was piece OF bacon as big as my
hand, but that was not regular. Sometimes
there was baking powder and sometimes there
was not. Annuity goods were not as much
promised and they never came until late in the
winter. They ought to come in the fall The
agents kept on promising more and giving less
all the time. The agent says Work hard and
You get more Indians work hard and get not
so much. Only about one crop in every three
is any good / think Big Foot was coming to
Pine Ridge to get better than he
was getting at Cheyenne river or to
fight. 1 don't like the government to change
good agents. When we begin to know
good man he is taken away and some man
| who is not SO good is put in his place. l would
rather have soldier officer for agent, because
soldiers when they are not fighting the Indians
| they always treat them well. Indians are will
ing to work many ways, but the agent says they
must farm whether they know how or not The
| agent only lets his favorites among the Indians
| to freight goods in from the railroad, and that
does not give as many Indians a chance
| to work would like to. We want
more rations, more wagons, more
| tools and more ways to work. All white men
| are not farmers. even where the land is good
and grows much. Our land is not good. We
must have something to eat while we are work
| ing and waiting for the crops that often do
not come. There is no hunting. Many Of us
| would like to enlist soldiers. There are one
| or two hundred Indians at Cheyenne river who
| want to be government soldiers"
THE FEAST AFTER THE rArr