The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1903-11-29
SECTION THREE
= THE LAST OF THE RlGDNlAR'S FREEDOM :



him roots for Indian grass for pony" One day
Earth Great Father say lnjun no sell his country
"O-wh talk O-whi say: 'O-whi be afraid Great
Father be mad If O-whi sell land.
yellow Bird talk. Yellow Bird say. Injun skin
red: Boston-man skin white Injun eye Injun eve,
Boston eye Boston eye. Injun heart Injun heart.
Boston heart no Injun heart Yellow Bird know
what Stevens mean Yellow Bird wants wait
Thus old Hoo-sis-mox-nox told US Of the Grea.
Council which finally resulted in all the Indians sign
ing the proposed treaty. BY its terms the Indian
represented at the pow-wow coded to the whites al
their country except three reservations-the Una
tilla, the Yakima and the Nez Perces. The govern,
ment got the fine land of the Northwest for how
much per acre2 Two centst
could you blame the Indians after this for theh
treachery?' said StonewaH Jackson S ne eo
Hair. They signed the treaty because they were
told they had to do so. Then they at once prepared
for
THE only tribe that kept its word was the Ne4
on by old Ks-mi-a-kiu the suIlen Yakima chief who
at the pow-wow no talk, began killing settlers. The
Ny father was one Of them They met the Indians
in battle at Walla Walla.'
And you bet it was great scrap, too broke II
the old scout, his eyes cleaning as he recalled the
lively incidents Of his young days out west.
asked.
Injuns certainly ht We into 'em the mouth
of creek. We both about 500 strong. Tt
colder'n hell. The fnjuns They out. JUS
five of 'em. old Yellow Bird leadin'. white
flag. He comes up and tells Colonel Kelly he don't
want to fight he asks the colonel to meet the vaIla
Wallas have a pow-yvov. The colonel kind O.
thought the old chief wanted to play foxy and lead
Us all into the brush where they could rnassvcree ms
all But the colonel wouldn't let Yellow Bird and the
four Injuns with him so. And pretty soon we heard
the damdest whoopn' and yeIlin Of your life Every
bush InjUn. And how they did scrapi
About this time Wolf-skin, who Of the
five prisoners thin<in. I guess was onto their
game jerks out knife. stabs ore Of our boys and
tries to get away. In a minute there was five dead
InJuns- Yellow Bird was one Of EN-. With them
Injuns in the brush we had it nip and tuck until
night
They was sly devils. Next moruin' thought
they had all gone. We struck into the brush. All
at oncest they popped up again And what do you
hair and their backs that they looked jus the
same color as everything around em.) They dug holes
jun But I reckon got about twenty o 'ern
JUS the same. You know, you can't tell how many
Injuns you kill. because they always carry of their
dead to keep you from scalpin' 'em.
But the last day Of the scrap eve fit four days.
We mad a chance 70 get scalp Two Of our boys was
killed. George Hunter and swore we'd scalp an
MIN. Inen before the others could get TO him we
drv 'em back. The Injun laid there But want
to tell you when we seen him gaspin his last breath
I'D like to tel you more about the scrap but the
damned old mules got out of the corral last night
I've got to round em up"
When the flap door of the tepee had closed be-
hind the ola scout asked my educated half-lndian
friend if the battle Of which we had just heard closed
Oh. no." said he. After the battle Of vaHa vaIla
and few other fights second council met. But the
overcome in the north. Yet they came near wiping
out the entire command of Colonel Steptoe. This
roads. He left most Of his ammunition behind. He
met the PaIouses and the Occur d'Alenes They pro-
fessed friendship but they talked among themselves
planning massacre. Timothy, Nez Perces chief
who was acting as guide TO steptoe stepped up to
Saltese the COur d'Alene and said: What for YOU
talk two tongues? You say white you be his
friend; you say your people you kill Steptoe.'
Luckily it was nightfaI and Steptoe was
able to defend himself until dark That night the
enemy surrounded SUeptoe. Thinking that they could
best secure their prey the following morning. they
gave up the darkness to the revel of scalp dance.
/ But Timothy went on a scout and found IN
guarded pass. Through this he led Steptoe's COM
pany, and within tventy-four hours got them the
Snake river, where friendly Nez Perces squaws fer
/ red them across out of the hostile country.
1t required severe to this war Colo
! mel Wright however. the for it. He came to
Spokane plains and gave battle Indians there.
/ HOO-sis-mOX-mOx here leading Of the hos
tile tribes then the Palouses> He tell you about
/ this better than L"
/ Wright come began old Yellow Hair. tIn5un
say: We no let him slip away all same Steptoe
! Wright Steptoe. Steptoe say he come make road.
/ Wright say he come fight. Wright catch him Injun
/ pony-tWo thousand pony. Wright kill him all In
! Wright fight Injun, Spokane close. Injun fight.
/ Bimeby Wright shoot big bUllet-bg all same head.
! Injun say: What mean big bullet? I say Ka-rni-a-
kin, Yakima chief: My grandfather time first
] man give Injun flag; Injun he keep law Great
] White Chief in Washington. This day Injun fight
] BOstOn-man. Great White Chief tell Wright shoot
big bullet make InJun keep law. akin say:
/ Injun fight little bullet Injun fight big bullet
Chlet Na-mi-a-l1ln give Wright gum all Injun give
Wright gun.
yellow Hair no more fight him Bostou-rnan Yel-
/ low Hair heap glad. Yellow Hair been good Iniuu
since that day. stand this nd-Boston-r7an.
/ 7 stand this land-InjUn. same Father make Bos-
/ ron-man make Injun- BOston-man all same Injuu
/ brother"
Copyright. 1903 by Charles N. Crewdson
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