The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1899-11-26
Az INDIANS LETTER.
Indian Com missioner Jones's Prediction
That the Race VIII Soon r. Extinct.

Indian Commis,ionrr Jones's Prediction
That the Race VIII Soon he Extinct.
To THE Enron or THE SCS-Str' Tho
Great White Fathers palcface buck, william
A. Jones. who lives In Washington, and Is called
by tho whites. Indian Commissioner. sends word
IN the White Father that in the next twenty i've
years there won't BE- red man in existence II
will b. the fault Of the white man Palefaco
Jones's guess comes true. But the palefaces
long before Mr.. Jones said the same thing Ny
gran ifather who was a Wy ,ndotte returned 10
wigwams Of his tribe many moons ago and told
the bucks and braves to prepare for the HapTS
Hunting Grounds He had been for a visit to -
pale!accs in New England. and had heard ono II
them named Spraguc, OF Rhode Island say that
the red man was at that time standing in the faco
Of the setting sun and that his last war whOop
had been heard. Ny grandfather had been 10
Boston and they fed him on leans and when he
went back Ia tho wigwams he had lost his nerve
He never went on the warpath after that lie
got up ghost dances and had lodge Of sorrow
composed Of old broken down squaws, and soon
ai!st he rested from his pow Vows ,-,--
Our tribe increased until the Great Spirit counted
us by the number OF leaves that fell from the
branches in the Moon OF Snowshoes Word
tribes were increasing. Then the palefnces
came among us and taught us their way Of many
things, and made US 10 drink. In spite Of 1t all
we managed W make trouble when they wanted
our trails and the places whero We had Joined our
voices with the thunder and the west wind in tho
worship Of the Great Spirit
When tho ancestors Of my palefnee brother.
william 4, Jones. had laid out TescryatiO for
our people, and herded us as we herccd the gam
OF the forests, We still loved one another and We
gathered about our shacks in the long winter days
afraid To go out after dark on account Of the war
nnrs which our White Father had sent 10 watch
US Then our ancestors. Oh. Jones, gave us
the white mans Bible and told us that We must
s Sln "a d sS e. whom
neither the West Wind, nor the Moon Of Bright
EEght no. leaves , nor Strawberries nor Of
buried our departed out Of our sig nt and when our
squaws and pappooses moaned for red squirrel.
and Wild rice, and grouse, and bison and venison,
they were fed upon the oxen slain at the beef
issue. oxen tina the white man had worked and
turned out TO die.
And you built schoolhouses and taught our
ehdJ, ,n new laGngqnss ,i They come back TO
names sometimes 30 that when we talked to them
as we did when they were being lullci To sleep in
the wgwams they looked at us and shook their
heads And then you taught our squaws 10
stay in the tepcc all day, and our braves and
bucks had To quit tho hunt aud plant maize.
One day paleface came 10 our tepee with
thing called n bicycle, and you tried to teach us
boys the game OF football And now you come
and tell us we are dying, and that in twenty 1--WE
years VIC shall only be known by the names which
you have taken from u.s. and for which you call
lakes, and rivers, and the trails OF your towns
and cities
hope my pale face brother Jones is wrong
the track Of the bison and in the depths Of forests
which have no, yet been broken and let us And
the great Great Spirit Of our Fathers And so
shall wc again outnumbcr the leaves of tho
when We got strong, and we will fight your bat
ties for you, and he worthy Of YOU. and Of the
White Father, and of our people; and their ira
ditions . WICHITA jim.