The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1902-01-18
FOUR BIG CHIEFS
STANDING ROCK AGENCY INDIANS
GO TO WASHING
TON
WILL FIX UP GRIEVANCES
Net Satisfied With GOvernme
Proposition to Lease Part of
Their Reservation for
Grazing Purposes.

It was not the advance guard of a
Wild West show that was registered at
the st. James hotel yesterday, although
there were four real indian chiefs minus
. their war paint and feathers. all being
dressed in up-tO-date white man toggery
and carried themselves with more ease,
than is usually the case with people who
have lived beyond the pale of civilization
during the greater part of their lives.
The Indians were from the Standing
Rock agency and were en- route to Wash
s-IgtOn, where they will have nurlper
e grievances that are to be taken up
and disposed of before their return to
the reservation. The four tribes on the
agency were represented as follows:
Mad Bear chief of the Yanktonnais;
Thunder Hawk chief of the Uncapapas;
George Shiaka, chief of the Upper Yank-
tOnnais; Walking Shooter, represents the
younger element who have had the ad-
Vantages of education and he is to pre-
sent certain grievances which they have
against the government. Red Tomahawk,
and David Standing Soldier, together
with L. P. Primeau, who is a half-breed
and viii act as interpreter, are all dele
gates selected by the different tribes to
represent them.
One of the principal grievances which
the Indians will take up is the action
of the government in which they have
been soliciting bids with a view of leas-
ing the reservation to syndicates for
grazing purposes at a rental not less
than cents per acre. A syndicate
through the agency of the c. NJ. & ST. P.
Ry. last summer endeavored to lease the
reservation for grazing purposes, and aft
er holding number of councils they de-
cided to lease the ground or certain por-
tons of it on a basis of 81 per head for
cattle and allow ten acres for each ami
NAL; this they submitted TO the govern
ment at Washington, and heard nothing
further from them until the government
was asking for bids on a basis of not
less than cents per acre.
The Indians are not at all anxious 70
lease the reservation. They claim that If
the government will pay them the money
that is their due from the treaty of 1865,
they will buy cattle enough of their own
to stock up the reservation and that VIII
not leave any room for outsiders.
The government claims that the treaty
of 1866 is not now in force, but the In
dams are of a different opinion, and this
matter will be settled while they are IN
Washington. Walking Shooter claims
that that there are no articles OF issue
at the present time for the younger In
dams who have had the benefits of an
education, and he will take the matter
up and see if the younger generation
cannot be supplied with horses, cattle
and implements the same as the older
members of the tribe, claiming that they
are entitled to it as we'll as their fore
fathers, but under present rules they
have to stock up their own farmes.
Red Tomahawk represents the police
of the reservation. He was one of the
braves who fought and stood by the
government at the time old Sitting Bull!
was carrying on his ghost dance in that
section. and it is claimed that the In
dams have somewhat of a grievance be-
e. cause the government failed to recog-
nize these services in a way satisfac-
tory to the tribes who supported the
government through those trying times.
It is understood that the matter has
been taken up several times, but nothing
came out of it.
There is at present on the reservation
about $500 Indians, and all are doing
very well. Last year they sold to the
government 1900 head of cattle, and if
they can get from the government the
money which they think is due them,
they propose to put it into cattle, so that
they can furnish the government a great
many more in years to come.
They left last evening for Washington
over the Milwaukee railway and do not
expect to return until all mbatters are
satisfactorily adjusted.