Arizona republican., 1914-04-04
INDIANS TELL THE STORY
 0F CLUSTERS LAST STAND
 IN THE VANISHING RAGE

participated in it, tell their own story of the Custer fight in 1876, which resulted in the utter. annihila- tion of Custer and his troops
 Standing on the Custer field, in the Little Big Horn Valley, Mon tana, facing the monuments in honor of Custer and his men, the Indians recount the tragedy with the sim plicity and pathos of their race in words having the genuine ring of truth.
 The story is told in the latest book on the North American Indian, ''The Vanishing Race" written and illustrated by Dr. Joseph Kossuth Dixon, published by Doubleday Page and Company
 The book is a large, artistically printed volume of several hundred pages, illuminated with eighty superb photogravures, selected from the thousands of photographs made by the Rodman Wanamaker Expedition sent out under the leadership of Dr. Dixon, ito perpetuate the life story of the first Americans and to strengthen in their hearts the feeling of ale glance and friendship to their coun- try.
 The dedication is ito my brother. the Indian"-to the man of mystery the earth his mother-the sun his father-a child of the mountains and the plans-a faithful worshipper in the great world cathdral-now a tra- gic soul haunting the shores of the western ocean.
 The title of the book, "The Van ishing Race,' is justified, as the au- thor reports. by the records of the bureau of ethnology at Washington, which show that the North American Indian, north of Mexico, has decreas- ed 55 per cent in poulation since the coming of the white man.
 The Indians Own Story of the Gus
 ter Fight
 Busters surviving scouts-Crow In- dians-and a number of Sioux, who fought Custer, first tell the story.
 White Man Runs Him, Custer scout, says in part:
 The Great White Father at Wash ington sent representatives out to our country The Indians met them and held a council The Sioux were hereditary enemies of the Crows. The head man sent by the Great Father said to the Crows: We must get together and fight, and get this land from the Sioux. We must win it by conquest"
 I stood faithfully by the soldiers They did not know the country. did They wanted me for their eye they could not see The soldiers and I were fighting in friendship. What they said, I did. What I said. they did So I helped my tribe.
 We heard that General Custer was coming and I and thirty soldiers went down the river in boats. I was the first one of the Crows to shake hands with Custer He gripped me tight and said You are the one I want to see, and I am glad that you arc first" I directed Custer up to No Hip-Bone We always travelled al night, climbing the mountains. ant wading the rivers. During the day
  reached the top of the Wolf noun tains we saw the enemy's camp, neal where the Custer Field is at tho present time Custer was rejoicet and anxious to go ahead and make the battle. Custer sent me to higf knoll "Go and look for me-" he said "and see where I can make sue cess" He left it to me. When was up there I looked around ant the troops were very close upon me I motioned to them to come on ant we passed up the ridge.
 The Indian scouts stood in iron of Custer and led his men. Th' Sioux fired at us. We looked ove the river and saw Reno in his en engagement with the Sioux.
 Finally they wiped out Reno ant he retreated to the hills.
 Custer and all of us got off oul us. They were banging away at us Custer then came up and said: 'Yo, have done your duty. You have let me to the enemy's camp. And nov the thing for you to do is to obe! orders and get away. You go; l an now going with my boys"
 Had Custer not ordered me to go the people who visit Custer Field to day would see my name on tn monument.
 I made my way further up the rive to the pack train escorted by 30 soldiers. I directed them back t where the old trenches are today am where you may still see a pile o bones. The fight lasted through tn whole of long hot summer day M, friends, the soldiers. who were wit Custer were all wiped out. w scouts went down the river to mee No-Hip- Bone. There was a terrifi rain storm all night long. l had n clothes on and I stuck to my we horse. Custer and the soldiers wer my friends and companions and cried all night long as I rode throug the rain to tell Mo- -Hip-Bone tn news. General Custer was bray and good man, a straight-forwar and honest man. If General Custe was living today I would get bette treatment than I now receive"
 Story of Curly, Another Scout
 Curly, another Custer scout, quoted in part as follows:
 We heard that General Custe wanted to see us. We went to hin The first words that he uttered were