Saturday news. (Watertown, S.D.) 19??-19??, 1909-06-04
81 BUFFALO BILL

II 4 TIA ,.Tlitt. T. H.
least he could do was to halt and leave
Sioux people undisturbed, the white
men representing the great father
having In 1868 made the treaty to that
effect: Others had arranged with
them to build an eiron road, with q
horse that ate wood, breathed Ere
and smoke, to draw wagons and EN-.
igrants quickly across their country
to Oregon, Washington and California,
toward the setting sun With pleasure
they agreed. When this road was
built It was only as wide as his out
stretched arms, but the imam IN the
dark had taken from them lands
twenty miles in width for hundreds Of
miles. VIZ
Il His arguments, as see them now,
covered every one that the unselfish
advocate of communal existence can
advance, practicable when the so cali
ed "civilized man" has become as con-
tented as were the primitive children
OF prairie land and forest, but. lacking
which. this survival OF the fttest
seems to decree the fate Of the Indian
and control the relative prosperity OF
the white. The fire horse caused
prairie fires. His attendants increased
until they came with shovel, spade and
carpenter tools. They first erected
tepees. got lonely and brought their
sQuaws. Their friends soon came to
join them, and soon wooden tepees
were built and camps became villages
and villages towns until cities were
filed with crowds of people, such as
Bismarck, Mandan, etc. Then the
.man IN the dark" sold the land.
Later, when the crops failed and the
lessee did not pay, he kicked the tenant
ont and resold the land. He took the
money back in the dark toward the
rising sun. IL a poor man had nc
money he could not ride, but there was
plenty Of room; he had to walke-often
10 die by the roadside OF hardships Of
starvation, IL some Samaritan Indian
did not feed him. The ..man In the
dark" never came there when he and
his chief made complaints No one
was responsible. They were told Il
send letters or speak BY the lightning
to the "man in the dark" but be never
answered. When the government trea,
ties were broken a similar discourteous
lack Of consideration occurred ''..MJ
chiefs and me, who signed, were al
ways here. The great fathers head
men General Harvey and others were
not They never returned. New white
chiefs took their places, and every foul
years new great fathers took power and
their men laughed at what their prede
cessors had done
The breaking OF treaties so frequent
| nv and the invasion Of the Black Ellis
and other sections BY the gold seekers
prospectors and trappers became Thu
cause Of constant Irritation, leading Il
almost continual contests, raids and
massaeres. This condition had really
brought on the war OF 1864 resulting
n the Custer fight as well % IL many
succeeding cleanupa
The forfeiture Of the Black Hills ant
lin1udicious reductions Of rations KEEP
tdiscontent alive. When 10 1850 con
gress passed law dividing the giou1
reservation Into many smalIer ones q
q to Isolate the different tribes d
clans OF the Dakota nation d treaty
wss submitted to their vote whereby
| ~ reinstating the cuto6 ration8 and
paying for ponies captured Of destroy.
~ 81 the ,76 war and other certain
conditions they ceded about oue-hal1