Plentywood herald. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1908-current, 1929-09-19
WHITE BULL AMONG THE FIRST OF SIOUX INDIAN CHIEFS
TO F0RESEE COMING SUPREMACY OF THE WHITE IMAM

against The background of his people.
MY trends" said White Bull, adj
dresslng .Anself to his small audience
and a lev OF his people who had gath
cred around him, the Great Father
e you here that we may open our
hearts 70 YOU. What l say you can
say to hin. The sun, the moor and the
stars guioad by the Great Spirit shine
on The White man and they shine on
the red man alike.
"Once my people roamed the broad
pralrleS, free as the birds OF the air,
m the smoke curled out of their robe
covered tepees along the large flowing
waters and they were happy. The
Great Father sent long lines of pale
faces to camp on our trail til we be-
came exhausted and our children cried
for food. We were but few and had
to be content to move our lodges and
live on a small part OF the wide plain
where the valleys are narrow and the
streams are shallow.
Urged Working Like Whites
"The Great Father says you must
work like the white man, till the soil
and raise food for yourselves and fam
lilies. We have tried to obey. Our
young men have plowed the land but
the no sun and the winds come and
the corn dies. We send our children
to school but they learn slow. My
daughter has gone to the white mans
school ten SHOWS but she cannot write
me a letter.
1.-The Great Fathers heart is good.
He feeds and gives us blankets, but
sometimes we are hungry. He sends
men among us to council with us and
teach us who don't seem to under
stand the hearts Of u people. The
white mans cattle eat OIL our grass
and the hearts of our young men are
bad. That man there white Robe
pointed to Mr.. Wilson, is Dur friend
and all u people like him. He has
taught us how to build our houses and
fences and how to pillow our land. Our
| people listen to him and try to follow
hi strait. He has told us many good
| things. We ask you to tell the Great
Father to let him remain with us many
SHOWS
White Bull bowed t, indicate that he
/ had finished his grafton. A brief pause
followed when Major Mclaughlin re-
SpOnded.
Major McLaughlin's Reply
white Bull" said the major, Il have
listened to you and l believe you. l
will tell the Great Father what you
have said to me. Your land will be
fenced to keep the white mans herds
off your grass. He will build for your
PEOPLE big school houses and send good
teachers to teach your children. He
will leave this white man with YOU"
The promise of the major was kept.
He returned to Washington, d. c., and
in the years that followed there was
built on the reservation of the Chey-
enes, buildings that housed the educa-
tional facilities and other structures
that are intended to lift the C~heyenneS
up to higher levels. In all respects the
government, with the exception OF con-
tinuing the services Of Mr.. Wilson,
complied with the request of White
Bull.
Mr.. Wilson deplores the circum-
stances that sent him back to his
ranch. His purpose vas to increase the
facilities that would provide for larger
teaching units. Eventually, he felt, it
would have been possible in those early
years to have taught the once rowing
savage that 1t is possible to make of
him q useful citizen which in turn
| would have made him economically in
dependent.
White Bull was very considerable, Mr.,
| Wilson AYERS. While sitting with the