Arizona republican., 1914-04-04

Indians in 1876
 against the Indians reposed this con- fidence in General Custer otherwise, knowing the Indian as fighter, know ! ing the character of desolated wastes of country to traverse-the difficulties | to be encountered in the simple move ment of troops the annihilation of l any body of troops, when once they reached the unmapped plains cut in | twain by gorges and piled high with | impossible buttes, he would have 1 stultified himself had not orders been given allowing discretion at the mom- | net of emergency.
 Custer was strong enough, brave 1 enough, and sufficiently masterful to | see and seize the situation. His tac- tics he had previously and many times employed, and always with brilliant success On this June day he would have led the daring Seventh" to vic | tory and routed, if not conquered, the great Indian camp. He was defeated and slain with entire command They | fell at their posts in battle formation Why?
 | The entire group of Indian warriors participating in this grim battle all testify that had Reno pushed his charge when first he attacked the In dian camp they would have fled in con- 1 fusion, for the attack was unexpected.
 The Indian always expects a night attack They further testify that after Reno made his attack with a portion of his men, thus depicting his effective l fighting force by one half and in des- peration made his bungling retreat, 1 had he later come to the aid of Custer with the added endorsements of Ben teen, French, and Weir, who begged l him to hear the appeal of Clusters rapid volleys, Custer would have brok en the Indian camp. Reno remained on | the hill until every gun was silent Reno failed. Custer was slain. This ] conclusion is the voice of the Indian... | A Wonderful Book
 l The Custer fight, so graphically de- I picted, occupies only a small part of this book
 l Throughout all the pages We glimpse | the vision of a race that stands apart | from all mankind. A race of men with lofty ideals, heroic in temperament, in effably tragic in thought Men whose minds rose and travelled in the upper 1 planes of spirituality Creatures of | the forest yet masters of the forest 1 Supreme in their environment, well | coming the white man as equal, oppos- I ing him only in defense of their con- | scious mastery. one of the five great | races of people who watched their
 lands disappear, their buffalo exter- minated, yielding their homes, shrink | ing back before advancing civilization, l realizing that ther pristine glores may never be recovered, yet never yielding l their claim of equality. Today the | sublime thought in the Indian mind | still seems to be that although he is | doomed to eXtermination, and die he | must, yet will he die undaunted. Indian Imprints
 The first part of the book is de- voted to Indian imprints-a glimpse | backward into the original life and country of the Indian Here he is | shown to have been a man of "maies-
 tic mien, of stolid dignity, of trium- phant courage, with inscrutable self
 boise" A race of real religious impulse | and faith. of moral homes, of hospi- tality (his savage character the author | says, came upon him through contact | with the white man)-whose going is
 "the imposing triumph of solitary
 grandeur sweeping beyond the reach
 of militant crimes. their muffled foot
 falls reaching beyond the margin of an | echo"
 Tire Last Great Indian Council
 These impressions form the back
 ground for the Stories of the Chiefs"
 IS told in "The Last Great Indian
 Council" organized by the expedition,
 with the assistance of the United
 States government, in the valley of the
 Little Big Horn, Montana. Wrestling l with the Indian superstition that to be photographed will result in the short
 aning of their lives, it was no small task to assemble these chiefs for the express purpose of making photo graphic records to be preserved in the
 Indian Memorial to be erected by the
 nation in New York harbor But the
 chiefs came. They met in council for the last time (some of them have since
 1ied) and they delivered real orations,
 as may be seen from some of the re- ports here given. The speeches were
 made in the Indian tongue, of course.
 translated by interpreters and then
 transcribed by the leader of the expedi- ton, Dr. Dixon.
 Welcome to the Chiefs
 Chief Plenty Cous. chief of all the
 Crow nation. in summoning the other
 chiefs to the council said:
 The ground on which we stand is
 sacred ground. It is the dust and blood
 of our ancestors. On these plains the
 Great White Father at Washington
 sent his soldiers armed with long
 knives and rifles to sIay the India-
 Many of them sleep on wonder hill l u,baro Do ho cly o-yVhitQ Cbiaf pf the