Year: 1877

WASHINGTON, October 2.-The Sioux


and Arrapahoe delegation had last


pow-wow at the Interior Department to-
day.


Red Cloud said: Ny people are op-


posed to going to the Missouri river, and
say that if we go there all our stock will
die. | know that when 1 go back all


my young men and people will feel very


bad because We have got 70 go to the
Missouri river. Ali the Northern In


dians that have been brought into the
reservations have been brought IN by
Spotted Tail ahd myself.


Spotted Tail said: The decision the
Great Father made is yours. 1t is yours
and not ours. You ask me and my peo-
pie to go near to the Missouri river. We
cannot go near the Missouri river this
winter. Of my delegation here, alto.
gether we have decided that we cannot
90 10 the Missouri river. Ii l should tell
nay people l had been ordered to go there
and had sanctioned the order, they
would scatter all over the country. This
delegation with me have told you our
opinion and have decided what to do,
but it seems my plans are not entertained.
we have picked out good place and are
willing to 90 to it in the spring, but we
cannot move this fall. We would like
to be at peace with the whites, but it Is
Impossible for us TO move away this fall.
We want our agency at Wounded Knee
creek. Your words to me are very good,
but we don't want to move to the Missouri
and move back again in the spring.
Where we are at present we are all pre-
pared for the winter. White men never
throw away labors. What the white
men have they love, and it is the same
with us. We don't want to throw our
lsbors away. If you wal, US to
throw that property away you
should pay us for 1t. II you
pay us tor it we can probably move
away. Otherwise we cannot.


Secretary Schurz replied, saying: You
came here to take council with your
Great Father, and he has spoken to you
kindly When he became your Great
Father he found in the books certain
treaties. These treaties were law to
him as well rs they ought to be to you.
These treaties made it his duty to carry
provisions for you, and to feed you on
place near the Missouri river. There are
many things that are not as you desire,
and many that are not as we desire, but
rs wise men we have TO accommodate
ourselves to things as they are. Your
supplies are on the Missouri river now,
they were carried there in accordance
with the law that we might give you
food when you were hungry, and it is
now too late TO carry them TO
another place. The Great Father was
pleased at what you said about taking
place on White river, and he will be bet
ter pleased if you go near the supplies on
the Missouri river, so he can help you
when you need it. He will not desire
you to remain on the Missouri river
longer than this winter. He will be CAD
to see you settle down on your permanent
places and will aid you in every way and
give you all that the white nation per-
mits in the way of mills, wagons and
schools. All be desires you to do is to
aid him in making it possible for him to
help you. This winter you will need
food, and as food cannot be carried near
the place where your people now are,
you will have to 60 near the place
whore the food is.


After general handshsking the In
dams retired. TLey leave tomorrow
evening for home via New York. Pres
ldent Hayes was present during the latter
part of the conference.