The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1907-07-11

RANGES ana paILleS Will DuIih1o nSAa
they are Rocky Bear and Iron Tail.
Tail. t~hirty-one SHOWS and grass
Ego you were not showing the dance
tor fun. Then . danced and. With
Rocky and the others, were looking 1or
white scalps. With grass .sna. . year
Looking at d beautiful scalp dangling
from the shoulder OF Rocky Bear. he
was asked: Where ketch -eny
Rocky shook his head and mutterod;
ss.Me good Indian. me no hight me no
his hand backward over his shoulder)
srle bad Indian; me fight white man..
ketch him scalp. Eight no good; me
good.
The smoke rose In silence Tor several
nut s-xs~-.-s-S-
Champion Tribes Of Fighting Men
Both chiefs were reluctant at drst 70
talk about the fight, but at last tney I
thawed out and for three hours recateo
the story OF the troubles that culma-
mated In the death OF Custer n MS
ment OF the Sioux from the
TaiIs Story ran as follows:
t.My tribe and the Cheyennes. with
which we are married, lave always
been fighting men. They have fought
and beaten all the Indians of the plains
and have been feared for their Prov
ess. We made raids Into the country
south Of Ms, ran or ponies. cattle 2
whatever we wanted. we ioughI Lls
Indians and the whites and the soldiers
with success. Finally the Great ia
Their wanted us to become reservation
Indians and hold US to the agency. Red
Cloud, a great chief, was a friend OF
Sitting Bull. a big medicine man. he
| wanted to be as always--able 70 go
| everywhere In Indian country, hunt.
camp and oam. Red Cloud had his
followers. Sitting Bull had his. With
! the latter were such fighting chiefs as
! Gaul and Rain-in-the-Face. I was
young, SO was Rock Bear-we We're
Just chiefs, what you soldiers call coli
onels; they We're generals.
Previous to 1876 Rain-in-the-Eace
had been in the guard house at Fort
Abraham Lincoln, where Custer was
the big chief, and Tom Custer had put
iron or him, which made his heart bad.
He told Tom Custer he would eat his
heart some day hen he goa away.
Later Observation-Disclosures escaped to US,
and he was a bad Indian, always want
ing to fight; he kept the young fellows
stirred up and helped Sitting Bull
Custer Plans a Stampede.
I'm 1875 when grass ann the sol
diera came for US. There were three
big chiefs with three villages, and they
tried to get around us, but Gaul-he
was our biggest chief-kept moving on
until we were near the reservations,
and a great many OF the young braves
left the agencies n went on the war
path with us. We were trying to get
up near the line (Canada). and had felt
we were far away from the soldiers
when we fought Custer. We felt SO
safe we had no scouts out for two days
when we made village on the Little Big
Horn river
we were all In tepees that morning
when Custer and his soldiers came on
us. We raj out n they shot at us.
We made for our ponies and were go
Ing to escape down the river. when we
headed US off. We did not know which
way to go until we saw the little chief
run away hen Gaul-he big fighter
lead us all at Custer. We find he
The soldiers fight, fight like Sioux;
they brave. they good fighters, but we
kill them all In short time and scalp
them. Then we go for the little chief,
and he and his soldiers in trenches, SO
we take the women and children and go
: over the line.
. 1T a big fight"-to go back to Tails
: own words-"Sioux brave ndlan whip
: soldier, get soldier gun, get clothes, get
i blanket get scalp and one sleep get
where soldier no came. Gaul, he want
t fight, maybe six suns more: he no want
y fight then. eau he fight good when
X Custer come. Heap Sioux!
= That long SHOWS ago. Me good In
IS dian now. Fight no more"
l. Throughout the recital Of the story
81 Rock Bear had sat with legs crossed
te under him. his beady Eyes peering out
l. over cheeks as wrinkled as the hide
g of an elephant, fixedly set upon the
h speaker. When Tail had finished Rocky
ii said:
80 White man think Sitting Bull big
j. CHIEF No; Sitting Bull big medicine
man No fight. Big Chief Gaul ant
,e Rain-in-the-Face. they fight Rain-in'
le the-Face say he eat Tom Custer
Il heart He eat heart that fight He no
forget wrong"
ID The massacre Of General George A
sE Custer n 261 men of the Seventh cav
m airy will stand out in the history o
the world as one Of the most horribl
fights of record
For several weeks three columns o
troops under General Giggon. Genera
- Crook and General Terry had been clos
ing in on the Sioux, who We're on tn
Warpath. They were approaching fror
the west, the south and east. The lat
tt ter body, in command of Terry, ha
8. Custer n his regiment, using ther
ae for scouting, because of the familiarft
OF Custer with the country and tn
~ habits of the Indians. Custer persua6
- ed General Terry to let him scout so,1t
~ toward the Rosebud, and left the mai
lh command on June % unde orders t
ne re1oin In three days on the Yellowston
of at the junction Of the Bic Horn
m On that fateful Sunday morning Gu.
mo- ter. who had struck and olIowed til
at main trail of the Indians. saw an II
dian village over the Little Big Horl
an He sent major with six troops to cros
the river below the village. He lie
g, Captain Benteen with one troop
err guard the pack train and with fl,
us troops started across the country
strike the village at the upper end. TT
attack OF the two commands was
II have been made simultaneously. whit
~ Custer expected would stampede ii
e, Sioux.
Major Reno crossed the river as 4
or rected, ran into more Indians thar i
m had ever seen before and at once r
mr. treated to h other bank, where on
high hill he entrenched his comman
% Meanwhile Custer surprised the Vi
Pc lage and started the stampede. T.
Jus Indians did not know which way
no turn. They fed In terror, but SO,
1t were brought into action by Gaul, W.
1t made them circle the handful of m
Wit Custer. 1t was O long. befo
inn the soldiers horses stampeded or we
killed to be used as breastworks for I