Omaha daily bee., 1909-04-25

OustinE n Correspondent,
This deputy manifested extreme affec'on
for tho tree. He was so fond of IL. In fact.
that he rooted the newspaper correspondent
aside. and exposed that timid civilian 10
all the immediate horrors Of war. Another
deputy crawled out OF the darkness, wormed
himself carefully between the legs OF his
outstretched companion and lay flat on
the latter's body, a kind OF two-dcck ar
rangement.
One Of the women had been brought from
the other house and told to enter the one
that had been surrounded. which she did.
There was no response for four or five
minutes. Cook. with Jones and Tiger, the
latter still deprecating his knowledge of
the English language, broke the suspense
by going to the house and routing out its
inmates.
A/man and a half dozen women and
children came shivering into the yard.
Neither Crazy Snake nor any other man
had been there. Tiger knew and be-
lieved them.
This was the kind of service the troops
saw day after day in the Crazy Snake
war"
Crazy Snake was still in the hills when
the troops we're disbanded. He is re-
l%uctant. to surrender because of his fear
of mob violence.
Statement Of
The grievances of Crazy Snake were
stated In an appeal he made to the senate
committee that investigated matters con-
neced with the affairs of indian Terri
tory in 1907. TIL member of the COM
mittee were Senators c. d. Clark of Wy
oming, chairman; Chester /. Long of
Kansas. Frank B. Brandegee of Connec-
ticut. Henry NJ. Teller Of Colorado and
William A. Clarke of Montana. Crazy
Snake spoke with intense feeling. In
part he said:
II am here and stand before you to-
day, my fathers, as a man Of misery.
l am here appealing to you to have the
laws carried out.
The troubles were always about TAX
ing my country away from me. l could
live in peace with all else, but they wanted
my country and l was in trouble defend
ing it. It was no use. They were bound
to take my country away from me. 1t
may have been that my country had
to be taken away from me-, but it was
not justice.
81 nave always been asking for justice.
I never asked for anything else but jus
tice. I never had justice. First. it was
this and then It was something else that
was taken away from me and my people,
so we couldn't stay there any more.
"Its was a treaty-a solemn treaty.
We made terms of peace. for 1t had been
war. Then II was the overtures, of the
government to my people to leave their
land, the home of their fathers, the land
that they loved. He said: 1t will be better
for you to do as l want, for these old
> treaties cannot be kept any longer He
t said, You look away off to the west,
: away over backward and there you will
e see a great river called the Mississippi,
and away over beyond that there is an
n other river called the Arkansas river.
: and he said, You go away out there and
you will find a land that is fair to look
i upon and is fertile, and you go there with
n your people and I will give that country
n to you and your people forever
e solemn Promise Recalled.
He said: Go away out there beyond
these two rivers, away out the direction
OF the setting sun. and select your land
what you want of it-and | will locate yol
and your people there and will protec
you as long as the sun shines. grass grow
and water runs He said: Go ava,
out there to this land toward the setting
sun anu ldhe yOuT DSppit VIZ JOu GIN
y locate them there, and ] will give 20
that land forever, and l will protect yo'
and your children in it forever
h was the agreement and tn
As treaty, and I and my people came on
I'd here and we settled on this land. and
carried out these agreements on all point
n. and violated none. l came over an
I'd located here.
aAu that I am hap0inp NJ won honor
n able senator's. is that these ancient agree
RS ments and treaties wherein you promise
ed to take care of me and my people be ful
filled and that you will remove all tn
10 difficulties that have been raised In refer
is ence to my people and their country, an
I ask YOU to see that these promises ar
of faithfully kept. That is all I desire {
say"
d. Crazy Snake did not know that his er
at treaties were FILLING upon deaf ears, ths
an all he complained of had been done II
tn revocably and that his tribal governmer
as had ended forever.
en- In his view of life Crazy Snake Is a
TO primitive as were his ancestors. II
'fs would have his people live only upon III
Ir- natural products of the earth, as they d.
n centuries ago, abstaining from the use {
manufactured articles. For that reaso
RS, be believes that manufactured salt an
ot bakers bread and canned goods al
IT. nominations.
to In his marital relations Crazy Small
ey follows the ancient customs of the Creek
,ly ignoring all marriage ceremonies an
ty living with wives by mutual sgreemen
a Hoktuchee little Crib. one OF Graz
nd Snakes wives whose pictures appes
he in this article. is a kindly old woman wi
lives with her brother near the town
ID Pierce. p
,k. One Of Crazy Snakes sons Legt
Jones, a sickly. inoffensive man. live
of near him. Salina Jacobs, Crazy Snake
married aughter, is a woman of int
ng ligence.
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