The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-06-21
NEVER CONQUERED.
NOT EVEN All WOUNDED KNEE, IF
THE SOUTH DAi<OTA SENATOR
IS no Bic Behaved.
EARLY DAKOTA REMIVTscrScEs.
The Days when DeadNO0d Was IN
contaminated by the Advance
of Civilization.
srecial 30 the Globe.

-ASIi1-NG 1O-N, June 19.-h nen
You ak of personal courage, individual
and racial" says Senator Pettigrew,
of South Dakota, let me say DO net
foTEet the Sioux Indians. They are
the only people on the face of the earth
To-Day who have never been conquered.
They were never defeated by their
=. aboriginal enemies, and they have
never yet been coerced into submits
sion 20 the army Of this republic. They
were not whipped at Pine Ridge, and
Gen. Miles knows it. They ave up
their ghost dances and came into
camp as a matter Of diplomacy and
military policy. bat they never were
conquered and nrVer gave up their
arms. There were $4,000 Of them, and
Gen. Miles had 1000 men, but it is &
matter Of conjecture today which
would have come of victorious in a
pitched battle. 1t is possible that the
entire Indian contingent might have
been m~assacred. but X is equally pcs
sible that but a corporaTs guard might
have been left Of Miles army"
Military men Will never agree with
D.. You on that point"
"Ot urs not. They will swear
J, that the army compelled the Indians
to come in, surrender their arms and
give up the fight. But that is not true.
The Sioux nation has never been con-
quered, and they consider themselves
uncOnquerable today. They are proud,
courageous and rrOgant They al
ways AVE been and always will BE-.
Not only as a people, but individually,
they are as brave as the typical old
Romans. Talk about the Roman hold
ing his hand in the fire until it burned
on-why, there are lots of Sioux who
- would do the same thing today for an
object"
can you mention any particular
instance of personal ~courage?"
We'll, there is DR.. Eastman, a full
bIooded Sioux, who is doing a great
good work for civilization today. {
knew his father. He was an unedu-
Gated, but very intelligent. Indian.
About twenty years ago I saw him
sharpening two long butcher knives
on a grindstone. Then he whetted them
on a Whet stone. They were sharp
as razors. 1 happened to be there lust
as he put the finishing edge on them,
and said: Eastman, what are YOU
going TO do with those knives p"
Jim Jones, he kill Injun. He say
he kill Eastman. I give jim Jones this
knife, 1 take odder. We fight. Mebb.
Jim Jones he kill Eastman. Mebbe
uot.'"s
Il then Jones, who was a great
Dig bully, came along got out of
MS wagon. He left his rifle in the
wagon and came towards us. Old man
Eastman approached him, handed him
Il knife, with the handle towards
his hand, and said: Jim Jones W.
hght. You say you kill Ole Eastman
NOW. we see. Ole Eastman give Won
same chance like me. Take knife. We
fight"
Jones turned pale as death. He
begged Ike a whipped cur. He svorl
ne never said it, and promised never
70 say another word against Eastman
before the old Indian would let him
Oh. There was an example of personal
courage, ~chivalry, honor, such as few
men OF any race have ever given. The
old man wanted to give Jones a fair
chance. He thought that sooner or
later he and Jones would come to-
Sether in mortal combat. He wanted
Liz LII he WHnIPn
u give n a fair show, too. There
are plenty of such instances Of personal
courage among the Sioux"
never knew you were such a friend
Of the Indians before"
Wen, I'm not their advocate. T
know all of their faults, their weak
nesses and their bloodthIrstiness T
know Of the shocking and horrible
crimes they have committed. am no.
makIng excuses for them, nor setting
them on a pinnacle of fame, but merely
stating a fact which [ know. They
are ignorant, illiterate a and are
not an ornament to our civilization
But they are brave, courageous and
nave confidence in themselves. indi.
Eldually and as a race. AS [ said be-
fore, they are the only race of nponla
on the race of the earth today who
Gave been conquered. They are
dying off and will soon exist only in
history"
Dropping the Indians, senator. fell
ne about the antelope on which Won
made your reputation as a marks
man"
THAT was a funny incident" respond-
Cd the senator. Il had driven across
the Great Sioux reservation, from Bis
mGrck to DeadwOod, in a coach SINH
lar 10 the one Buffalo Bill uses in his
business, in company with two other
Dakotans, and we were near DeadwoOd
When an antelope appeared on a hill
ock near by. 1t was about 300 wards
from US, and stood surveying our party
win interest and wondering ewes. We
were armed with carbines which would
shoe as accurately around a free ac
at a mark, and our driver and o,tY
rider each had rifles of the largest naf r
tern. When the antelope anneare5
the coach stopped, the driver and or
rider each got down to take a rest
and shot at the animal. iIImne1
cut Of the coach, and, raising NV CA
zine, aimed about ten or fifteen feet
S5bOVc the a~nteIope's heart. exDectine
the ball to drop at least within fifteen
feet Of the mark. I fired, and bv a
lucky chance my carbine bullet struck
Z antelope right in the heart. 81
that it fell before the others. with
their rifles, could get a sight and null
the trigger. The fame OF thai Shot
quiclay spread all over that region
and / am regarded today in the Black
Hills as a dead sure shot It is need
%ss 10 say that / have never done anv
shooting there since"
VIVA sort OF a man was the bully
@im Jones. with whom old man East
man offered TO fight with knives q"
u was an OveFgrOwn fellow. strono
Is en- uX, a ~braggart, who was ALWAYS
telling Of the murders he had con,
mitted. always in alleged ~seIf-defense
until people really believed he was thu
bold, bad man that he represented
himself TO be. He had q quarrel once
with a young lawyer, in his office at
Yanl:tOn, and was incontinently free
out ct the toe Of a boot. A week later
nc caught the same young lawyer in
r small square store room, with nc