The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1929-06-13
RED T0b|AHAWK0F
TO VISIT PRESIDENT
AND HIGH GENERALS
Sioux Chief Who Slew Sitting
Bull Carries Gifts to Big
National Figures
CALLED TO CHESTER, PENNA.
Pennsylvania Military Academy
Asks Him to Serve as
Field Events Judge

Tacanhpi Duta-left here Wednes-
day, accompanied by Francis Zahn,
interpreter, on a trip which will
bring him, reputed slayer Of Sitting
Bull, into the spotlight of the whole
Atlantic coast. He is going as a
resident Of the Bismarck country.
He is going east to attend the
commencement exercises of the
Pennsylvania Military academy,
Chester, Pa.,-oldest school Of its
kind in the United States-as .
Judge in the field and track con-
tests. While east he will be the
guest of General Hugh L. Scott and
Of General Charles P. Summerall,
chief Of staff of the army.
En- route, the chief, who has never
been east, will make short stops at
the leading cities on the Northern
Pacific and Burlington lines. He
spent parts Of two days here at the
Patterson with Interpreter Zahn at
the outset Of the trip, being brought
up from Cannonball by Frayne Bak-
er, as the trip east has largely been
arranged through Captain l. P.
Baker and his son.
Carries Indian Gift for Hsoyer. -
Red Tomahawk today was riding
q train through metropolitan cities
bearing 4 peace offering to the
chief Of the people his forefathers
fought so bitterly.
The 76-year-old chieftain, whose
profile marks all state highways in
North Dakota, carries q peace pipe,
traditional emblem Of friendly camp
fire councils. cherished beaded
tobacco pouch and an elaborate head
dress.
The head dress, fashioned from
$50 varihued eagle feathers,
trimmed with porcupine quilts and
edged with crmine and beads, he
will give President Hoover. The
pouch and pipe, the property of his
family for years, will be presented
Vice President Curtis.
The gifts of the old chief will be
symbolic of the amity between his
people-who once numbered $1,000
and the great white men.
Hon0red Foch Here
Red Tomahawk, now 100 per cent
an American in two senses, racial
and civic. was born in 1852 north Of
the Black Hills, a member of the
Titonwan Hunkapa Sioux tribe. He
figured in one Of the big after-war
spectacles in this city in 1921, when
he smoked the pipe Of peace with
Marshal Ferdinand Foch, Of France,
here and placed a war bonnet on
General Summerall.
The story of Red Tomahawk kill
ing Sitting Bull at Grand River,
South Dakota, during the ghost
outbreak, December Is. 1890, is an
outstanding chapter Of the Indian
history of the northwest. He was
engaged with q party Of Indian
police, at the time, in steps to arrest
the old chief of Custer history.
Supplanted Buffalo Bill
William F. Cody buffalo Bill
had been commissioned by General
Miles to arrest Sitting Bull and had
directed military officers to supply
|necess..y y assistance. General Miles.
order was rescinded. The final
order for arrest was received by the
commanding officer 1t Fort Yates,
North Dakota, with instructions to
call on the Indian agent for coopera.
ton and assistance.
Il was decided that the arrest
should be made by the Indian police,
with the military supporting ct .
convenient distance. The military
4, .norf ronsixted If two troons Of