Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1891-02-06

be like going TO two churches. | never
heard that the Indians should he 81.
preme or that the white man were 10 he
Killed, we never pray that the white
people may be destroyed. The dance
was not war dance, for none who
went In II was allowed to have n scrap OF
metal on his body. The Interpreters II
was who told the lies about the dance.
! never believed that bullets fired
from guns could not 10 through shirts.
There might have been some foolish
] indians who did believe such things.
for there ARE some foolish Indians ~
there axe foolish white People, but
never heard such a thing NJ an Indian
In the dance say that his shirt would
protect him from bullets. Agent Roger
and the Indian poles were the cause
OF the dance trouble, because they lied
about IL. God made the Indian ~ we'll
a. the white man, aud We want the
white man 10 live great deal more
than the white man wants lis 10 live.
get rations every two weeks, but they
only last five days, the rest Of the time
! starve very much, am careful with
my food, eat q little morning. noon
aud night. We never waste our IA.
tions at feast Dr dance; there l. not
enough even for small feast; we eat
dog. wild turnips aud cherries Mt our
feasts now. Five years ago we had
better beef and more ~ II; we have
been promised more but the promise IL
like the wind. We don't like old, and
lame, and bigjawed cattle when W.
know we are entitled 10 good beef. We
know the difference between good and
poor beef.
LITTLE wouSD
corroborated what Big Road said about
the dance. Policemen. squaw men
aud other Indian. had lied ABOUT them.
chiefs, aud they hoped u get 10 he
chiefs by lying aud making trouble
and talking with the agent.
Mention of the word agent again
brought Ioung-aIn-Afrald 20 his
feet. We want, he said. a soldier
agent, maybe, after time, we shall
want man who II not an officer; W.
don't want any more Indian police
either, thny always make trouble.
Scouts eau do the work and they won't
make trouble, because they will he
under tho army. We want the gov
eminent to do what they promised
give us plenty OF beef. our blankets
and things, too, ought 10 bc here when
the leaves fall; n woman on her way
last winter for her annultlcs was frozen
10 death.
We got our blankets In time twelve
years ago. said Fire Thunder, not
since then.
In answer 10 u question, Young Man.
Afraid said, Yes. some OF our children
ran away from school, hut that is not
strange, white children often do the
SAINT, but We want them 10 40 10 school.
Little Wound said that Mt Medicine
Root school the children are often very
hungry and their clothes poor; that
many left the school because there was
less 10 eat there than nj home. have
asked the teacher 10 send 10 the Grcat
Father for more food and clothes.
Little Wound also said that his people
would rather have red and white and
blue aud green blankets, and not all
the time have black blankets; that In
dians like bright colors, aud II hurts no
one II they do have pretty blankets;
aud then, he said, we ought 10 have n
little tobacco rs we can't raise IL.
gcnuously put, NJ Il was tile Sign for
another smoking bout. This ended the
talk Of the ogallala,, aud the Brulc-
were next heard from.
TWO STRIKES,
10 named after knocking two OF his
enemies of their horses, complained
OF four Of their young men conniving
with the agent, half breeds and police
10 have the agency moved from the
Rosebud sonc twenty I've miles nearer
the Missouri River, where there was
lees timber pnd less water, simply DO.
cause the agent wanted 10 DO II, nnd
he worked these young men for that
purpose. This was the reason he left
the agency,
CROW DoG
also complained about the agent taking
away from them plows aud wagons
and things 10 work with when bad
Indians would tell him lies, also about
the lack Of food. Nine years ago thcro
was enough rations all the year round,
now they didn't get half enough, anu
no game In tho hills. The beef too he
complained Of, II was often poor and
tough, aud II was u common thing TO
have bigjawod animals and bulls
turned over 10 them. white
people would not have these bat
anything was good enough for nm ln.
dian. They had twelve school houses
at Rosebud, but they would rather
have less school houses and more 10
cat; better have q satisfied stomach
aud know little VI school learning than
10 starvc half the time and be very
wise. Indians can't learn 10 be happy
and good on m empty stomach. IN
dian don't feel good when he IN hung
~. The agency farmers would often
take away their things and give them
TO other indians which makes us very
mad; sometimes mare or OK would
get hurt by no fault Of the Indian, aud
the agent would put the man In the
guard house. We have tried 10 com.
plain % the head agent about these
things but he wont hear us; his police
men keep US out Of the agency. These
thugs make us leave Rosebud. big
Road, he said, told the truth about the
dance. We did not want 10 fight the
whites. The police at Rosebud lied
about the dance. He complained also
about the lateness OF the arrival OF the
annuities, and about the agent refusing
10 pay them cash for hauling goods 10
the agency;hepa orders ON the store,
and the post traders get too much aud
the Indian not enough. Years ngo
they received one beef for every ten
people, now they receive one beef FOL
thirty, and not NO good beef eth.
or. Texas two.year.olds ara small aud
poor, Indian don't like 'em. Spoke
highly Of Captain jesse NJ. Lee as the
best agent they eyerhad. IL hetCrow
Dog) had stayed ut Rosebud II would
have resulted In u fight, therefore he
camel Pine Ridge, for he and other,
were very mad especially the way thcil
young men were acting. He denied