The Irish standard., 1891-10-24
LOS PARENTAL. AFFECTION.
Kndian Chiefs Who Show the Deepest
Love for Their Children.

Indian Chiefs Who Show the Deepest
Love for Their Children.
The Indian is generally not credited
with much regard or affection for his
family, but this impression was dis
PEELED from my mind during my trip
to Pine Ridge. says a recent writer in
the Omaha Bee. OF a number of friends
I made among the Indian chiefs will
always remember American Horse, a
man of much prominence among the
friendly Sioux. When he learned that
represented newspaper he gave my
hand cordial shake and remarked:
elbow, cola, good" He had one Of his
squaws with him, and through a simple
but beautiful sign language informed
her Of my vocation, and she, too, said:
sHow good" and shook hands. Amer
lean Horse then brought out young
papoose of about six years Ct age, and
informed me that it was his youngest,
and then he patted the little one on the
head and gave it an affectionate squeeze.
In Joke I asked him what he would
take for the little Siouxvenir. He did
not understand whether I was in ear
nest or joking, and was afraid I had
offended the old man; but he shook his
head, pointed his finger toward bunch
ofseveral hundred Indian ponies, then to
troop of cavalry horses, stamped his
foot upon the earth and waved his hand
about his head, and I understood that
not for all the horses and ponies on
earth would he part with his child. he,
however, did what he could and cut an
elk-tooth ornament from the little
Sioux dress and presented it to the cor
respondent as memento, and with
grunt Of satisfaction and another
''How" he took the little one by the
hand and walked away.
At the close of the Indian campaign
of 1875 the captive Cheyennes and 9th
ers were taken to Fort Leavenworth to
be transferred to Indian territory.
Capt. Eide, of the hospital corps at
Pine Ridge, was at that time stationed
at Fort Leavenworth, and related an
other instance of Indian affection and
pride in their offspring. The transfer
to Indian territory was a terrible blow
to the proud Cheyennes and was re-
garded as humiliating and degrading in
the extreme. One of the noted chiefs
of that tribe, whose name has unfortu-
nately slipped my memory, was es-
pecially bending under the imagined
humiliation and made several murder
GUS attempts to escape. He had for a
squaw member of another tribe and
two boys were the result of the union.
Before the final transfer WAS made from
the fort to the territory the military
continued to separate the different
tribes, and while the Cheyenne hostiles
were to be sent to the territory the 9th
ers were TO be sent to the north. This
news was conveyed to the Cheyenne
chief, and the prospect that his sons
should not share in his disgrace gave
him undisguised pleasure, until he was
informed that families would not be
separated and that they would have to
accompany him. He grew morose and
downhearted: and one day he walked
into the hospital, and before anyone
was aware of his intentions he had
seized pair of scissors and with the
point of it ripped a cash clear across his
abdomen from the left side to the right.
He expected to die and said he wanted
his wife and children returned to their
home in the north, but his terrible self
sacrifice awaited him nothing. for in
spite of himself he recovered and with
his family was taken to Indian terri
tory, where he was lost to public no.