The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1904-02-14
} LESsED is he who giveth away
what ne hath. but If he keeps ii. up

d LESSED is he who giveth away
ID what he hath. but If he keeps ii up
he'll pretty soon starve.
The Indian has given away nearly al
OF his land. Shall the white man cheat
him cut Of the few small patches he has
Ieft2
The land steals in the Indian Terrific
~ are nothing new. Ever since Colu,n-
bus struck these shores the Indian hes
been the victim of the swindIer. Isn't
it time 10 stop this thieviEg?
went TO see Chief No-Shirt many
times during my stay with the Umatil-
las Cayuses and Wallulas. who had
come together ir a village on their joint
reservation near Pendlet0n, ore. to
hold their midsummer powwow. I had
nearly always gone alone. but this tine
WhiTlWind, medicine man Of tne Una
t!uas, in whose tepee I had slept went
with me. had come to bid farewell
10 No Shirt.
On my previous visits this old chief
Rad been distant. A look Of distrust
iurhsd in his eye again this time. But
he warmed when said TO him through
Whirlwind Cfor No-Shirt knew little
English: 7 have come to tell YOU
goodbye and thank you for the kind
way your people treat me. I sleep in
their tepees. eat their fish. They
are good TO me. Now go back east.
w hat must 7 tell white man COR you?"
Whiriwind told No-Shirt that she
me would persist in calling me a she1
make him big newspapers" Then the
chief OF the allied tribes. after speak
lug q rev words 10 Nhirlwird, said TO
me; You tell him great Father Roose-
Welt IN Washington we want to keen
our lands
No-Shirt Whirlwind and other To-
dams IN the tepee parieyed awhile cv-
identity discussing me. Then the chief.
reaching behind him where he SAT-.
opened an old Hudson BAY company
trunk and TOOK ont some papers. He
handed them 10 me. But before I read
them the old chief. whose hair as
SlT5aked with gray. sat straight Ep
and. taking q stick. made some marks
on the ground
"One time SAID be. following his
words by signs and pointing with nis
stick from place to place on the crude
map he had ORA Vn. -'dne time all lard
lnjun lapd-frosn big water where sun
go down TO high mountains east. Heap
hunt. Heap buffalo. Heap deer. Heao
fish. Grass high. Pony fat Heap all.
White man come. we give hin eat
we give him pony. White man colns.
RE take our land. Bimeby white man
have him big land Tnjun little gpeck
here, little speck there-reSsrvati1r /
You tell him great Father Roosevelt :
iUS Washington we want we keep our
lard"
These few simple words moved me to /
such pity for the Indians as I had new
or before felt. And I told them about
Columbus and more of the story than
TIA knew OF how little by little the
redslin had been pushed back lntil
'bimeby white man have him big land /
InjUn little speck.
Then ] read the papers. The first
was about the allotment Of lands under :
an act Of congress in 1885 that provided I
that when an allotment was made 10 /
the Indians they should not sell their
land for twenty-five years. and that Ct
should not be taxed during that time [
Each man. woman or child WAS to re-
ceiNe eighty acres. When each man
got his own land. 80 said WhiTIWind, eve
have 1850 Injun.'
The second paper was a copy Of a
letter containing d speech of No-ShirL
which he had sent TO the department [
of the interior II gives in Indian
words the mind Of the wise heads
among the Indians or the land Ques-
ton. You may read it in full, for No
shirt trusted me TO take the paper Of
state TO town and make a copy;
Council Room. Jmatilla Agency, Ore
May is. 1902.
At a council Of Indians this day held
the following were agreed TO by those
signing their names. and they desire that
the same be Transcribed and sent. one
COPY to the secretary OF the interior ana
one copy 20 the commissioner of Indian
affairs.
No-Shirt spoke for the Indians as fol-
lows.
I'VE desire to write 70 Washington and