Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1909-12-16

ed by him which We're preparing tt
take the war path and promptly selZ
| ed their ponies, leaving the warriors
with the alternative of giving UP thei,
design or going to war on foot. From
that time till death, with the eNoep
ton of occasional visiting excursions
| the chief remained quietly at Pine
Ridge, now in South Dakota, where
he has figured uniformly as "a friend
ly' Indian.
Red Cloud never commanded the
same confidence among the whites as
some of his fellow chiefs. as his am
bition on several occasions led him in
to cnuivoca1 nositious and threw ssls
picion uron his good faith. IN 1875
for ineterc>' there rvas. no reason for
his nre~aring to get into trouble with
the whites, rs his last eNn ~.ence
with them should have been ,'Dnduc-
ivce Ct eoc1 facing. In 1874 ne had
n>oAe tho ocnuair+anco Of Prof O. C.
Nar~h &C Yale College. who had been
exploring tn" Pl7ck Fills in ~e"rch
Of fossils The Indians at that time
he'd grievances a~ainst the ccntrac-
tors who supplied them with s'1bsist-
enco under their treaties, and Rel
Cloud induced Prof Marsh to under
tnka the presentation of the facts to
the Great Father at Washington on
his return to the east. The professor
did what he promised and did 1t so
thoroughly that congress was forced
to take ,c"gnizance of the evil condi-
lions and break IN what ,wofs known
as the Indian ring. All this ought
to have moved Red Cloud to make
friends with the government rather
than get ready to join its enemies.
During the Pine Ridge outbreak Of
1S90-91 Red Cloud was outward1y
counselling peace and good order, but
the government officers who knew him
best felt better satisfied to watch him
than to accept these appearances as
conclusive. At the battle of Wound
ed Knee the hostile Indians surround
ed Red Clouds dwelling, which was
situated but short distance from the
agency, and, after a fight with Col.
F'orsyth's command, and with the In
dian police, retreated, Red Cloud &C.
companying them, and held him 2ris-
oner; but the shrewder element at
the agency have suspected that the
temporary confinement was not who'll
~ compulsory, and that the love OF
warfare triumphed over his sense
Of prudence to the extent of causing
him to direct the movements of the
hostiles slyly from within their own
camp. The later tactics bore the
stamp of his genius as a planner of
campaigns.
Red Cloud was prominently before
the public on several occasions as
the prosecutor and prosecutor of DR.
" T. McGillicuddy, who was agent at
Pine Ridge for some years. The trou'
bile appears to have arisen from the
fact that as agent DR.. McGilaicuddy
affairs on the reservation
instead of catering to the old
chi fs vanity and cupidity, as some
weaker men would have done. The
ultimate end of the controversy was
the retirement of McGillicudiy from
the agency when a change of admin
istration afforded an excuse for re.
heving him.
Red Cloud had some fame as an or
ator. On one Of his visits to Wash:
ington, about fifteen years ago, he
appeared before committee of CON-
gress, and made this characteristic
speech:
Law Chiefs, am an Indian. Look
at me. My name is Red Cloud. II
have sense. The government through
Gen. Crook, stole six hundred horses
from me and my people. represent
them. am in debt, and have large
family. Secretary Teller asks me to
take COWS for my horses. If the gov.
eminent gives me all the cows it has
promised, will haze more than we
can milk. I have sense. I want mon-
ey to pay my debts. Law Chiefs, pay
me not in cows, but in money. am
at peace. Let me remain So
"A daughter of Red Cloud married "a
white man named Jordan. who was at
one time clerk at the Pine Ridge
agency. They have had several child
rem and the marriage seems to have
been a happy one.