Plentywood herald. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1908-current, 1931-06-25

sion TO build ROADS, utlllZe natural re-
sources, ETC., on condition that the
government expend annually for ten
years the sun of $4,000, not includ-
ing the goods, provisions, etc., dis
tributed curing the negotiating of the
treaty. A sum of $4,000 was to
be expended annually in establish
ing schools, agricultural and mechani-
cal instructors, etc, among them.
The treaty of Fort Sully vas ne
gotiated October 10, 1865, between the
United States and the chiefs of the
Blackfeet band Of Dakota or Sioux In
dams, and bound this band to be
friendly to the government and to
use physical force to hold other bands
of the tribe in peace. The band
agreed to withdraw from the routes
already established or to be estab-
lished in their country, and in con-
sideration of their loyalty and this
withdrawal, an annual payment Of
$1,000 was promised for a period Of
twenty years. The principal chiefs who
signed the treaty were Wah-hah-
chunk-i-ah-pee (the one that is used
as a shield, and Wah-mun-dee-wak-
ko-no the War Eagle in the Air).
This treaty was proclaimed May II,
1866.
The Treaty Of Fort Laramie
The treaty OF Fort Laramie was ne
gotiated April 30, 1868, by N. G.. Tay-
lor, w. T. Sherman, w. S. Harvey, John
B. Sanborn, S. F. Tappank, G. c. Au-
CUR and Alfred Terry, United States
commissioners, and Mazapoukaska,
Tashunkacoquipah, Hehvao ngechat,
Marlborough, Little Chief, Makhpiah-
utah, Cocamiyaya, Contepeta, Mawa-
tannihavska, Hennapinwanica, Wapa-
shaw, and other chiefs of the Siuox
tribe. This treaty pledged the Indians
to keep peace with the government,
ON condition that the government
should punish white men or others
who perpetrated a wrong on the tribe
and also punish wrong-doefs among
the tribe. The territory, commencing
on the Missouri river, at As N. lAti-
tude, down, east back to a point OPP
ROcllC t1lC IlOl blCll llliC Va ANCDi u~ohu
next along this northern line to longi-
tude 104 degrees west of Greenwich,
thence north on meridian line to q
point where the forty-sixth parallel
intersects the same, and east along
parallel forty-six to the point at its
crossing Of the Missouri, together with
all existing reservations on the east
bank of the Missouri, was set apart for
their absolute use, and a number Of
other privileges granted to them. The
treaty reserved to them all the coun-
try north of the North Platte and east
of the SUBMITS Of the Big Horn noun
tains. 1t also agreed to close up the
Montana trail, and remove all United
States posts in this coded territory
The insane policy which countenanced
the proclamation of this cOnfedera-
ton, also taught the warlike Sioux
that where sc much was conceded
there could be little strength. The
Sioux, after their Minnesota fights OF
1863, were driven across the Missouri,
driving the Crows In turn from the
! Tongue and Powder rivers and caus-
ing trouble to the white settlers. This
was continued until 1865, when the
Fort Phil Kearney massacre created
a sense Of the dangerous character
of those fierce warriors, and proved
that their alliances of 1865 were still
powerful. Three forts were then erected
in the Sioux country Q866-7), which
were torn down a few years later in
compliance with the treaty s%tipulations
of 1868. The forts once destroyed,
the blood thirsty pagans were again on
the war path, and all those horrible
deeds Of cruelty credited to them in
the history Of their wars followed In
quick succession. The fact Of the suo-
cession Of Sitting Bull to the throne
Of Red Cloud was communicated by
Lieutenant Quin2an, Of Fort Shaw, in
August, 1871. On the return of the
chief, Red Cloud. from Washington in
1871, he described very wildly to the
tribe all the greatness which he had
seen and all the magnificence which
he wondered at. His tribe Of Sioux
thought he saw too much to be OF