Omaha daily bee., 1906-11-04

had an Indian heart. lie came to me
one day and unfastened the iron chain
and ball with which they had locked my
leg. saying by signs and what little Sioux
he could muster
" Go. friend Take the chain and ball
with You / shall shoot but the voice Of
the gun win lie
when he had made me understand you
may guess that ! ran my best. / was
almost over the bank when he fired his
piece al me several times. but / had all
ready gained cover and was safe. i have
never told this before, and would not
now lest It should do him an injury, but he
was an old man then. and 1 am sure he
must be dead long since. That old SOL
der taught me that some OF the white
people have hearts," he added, quite Sc
riousiy
Il went back to Standing Rock in the
night. and / had to hide for several days
in the woods, where food was brought to
me by my relatives. The Indian police
were ordered to retake me, and they pre-
tended to hunt for me. but really they did
not for IL they had found me 1 would
have died with one or two Of them and
they knew IT, In few days l departed
with several others. and we rejoined the
hostile camp on the Powder river and
made some trouble for the men who
were building the great iron track north
of us (Northern Pacihc).
I'm the spring the hostile Sioux got to-
Eether again upon the Tongue river. II
was one Of the greatest camps Of the
Sioux that l ever saw. There were some
Northern Cheyennes with us, under Two
Moon, and few Santee Sioux, renegades
from Canada, under Inkpaduta, who had
killed white people in Iowa long before.
We had decided to fight the white soldiers
until no warrior should be left
At this point Rain-in-the Face took up
his tobacco pouch and began again to fill
his pipe.
"Of course the younger warriors were
delighted with the prospect Of a great
fight. Our scouts had discovered piles Of
oats for horses and other supplies near
the Missouri river. They had been brought
by the white mans hreboats Presently
they reported a great army about a day s
travel to the south, with Shoshone and
Crow scouts.
There was excitement among the peo-
pie, and great council was held. Many
spoke. / was asked the condition Of those
Indians who had gone upon the reserva-
ton, and l told them truly that they were
nothing more than prisoners. 1t was de-
cided to go out and meet Three stars
General Crook al a safe distance from
our camp.
I'VE met him on the Little Rosebud.
believe that If we had waited and al
lowed him to make the attack, he would
have Jared no better than Custer. He was
too strongly fortified where he was, and
think, too, that he was saved partly by
III Tod 10, ~
us first and fought us first, thus giving
him time to make bis preparations. thinl
he was more wise than brave. After W,
had left that neighborhood he might hav,
pushed on and connected with the Long
Haired chief. That would have saved Gus
ter and perhaps won the day.
When we crossed the Tongue river &
the Little Big Horn, on account of tn,
scarcity Of game, we did not anticipate
any more trouble Our runners had dis
covered that Crook had retraced his trai
to Goose creek, and we did not suppos
that the white men would care to follow
us further into the rough country.
suddenly the long-haired chief .appeare,
with his men. 1t was a surprise
What part of the camp were you II
when the soldiers attacked the lower end?
l asked.
iAhh bttA lhNlltu " a ledSl at bllt "
the young mems lodges Ga sort of club
There was certain warrior who was max
ing preparations to go against the Crows
and had decided to go also" he said
while l was eating my meat we hear
the war cry. We rushed out and saw
warrior riding at top speed from the lowe
camp, giving the warning as he came
Then we heard the reports Of soldiers
guns, which sounded differently from tn
guns fired by our people in battle.
Il ran to my tepee and seized my gun,
bow and a culver full of arrows alread
had my stone war .clhb for, you know
we usually carry those by way of orna
ment. Just as I was about to set out I
meet Reno body Of soldiers appeare
nearly opposite us, at the edge of a lon
line Of cliffs across the river.
"Au Of us who were mounted and read
Immediately started down toward the for,
There were Ogalallas, Mlnnecbnjous, Che,
ennes and some Unkpapas, and thos
around me seemed to be nearly all yer
young men.
Behold there Is among us youn
woman! / shouted. Let no young ma
hide behind her garment / knew tn,
would make those young men brave.
THE woman was Iashenamani. or Mo,
ing Robe, whose brother had Just bee
killed in the fight. with Three Stars. Hol,
ing her brothers war stan over her heal
and leaning forward upon her charger, 81
looked as pretty as a bird. Always whe
there is a woman in the charge, it caus,
the warriors to vie with one another
displaying their valOr." he added.
The foremost warriors had almost su
rounded the white men, and more wei