Year: 1878

THE RED-HANDED WARRIOR DOESN'T LIKE THE


ATTRACTION OF CANADA


Correspondence Chicago Tribune, Nov. n


POPLAR RIVER, NJ. T., Oct. 20, 1873.


Having just returned from a visit to Wood Noun
tains. Northwest Province, post of the Canadian
mounted police, where saw and conversed
at length with Sitting Bull, Spotted Eagle.
Black Bull, White Cuts, White Eagle The Gaul and
several others of the leading spirits of the Teton
camp, which is at present on Frenchmen's Greek, q
tributary of Milk River, the Indian name of which is
we-Saw- -wackepold, or White River 80 called from the
white Tor ppe) clay which is found on its banks.
send you the result.


Sitting Bull found at first quite reticent; but.
under the influence of cup OF coffee with sugar al
biim and the soothing influence of smoke he ct last
opened out He said that the White Mother good.
and that the Long Lance Major Wash) was a good
and that the half breeds good but that this
not such good country as the Yellowstone and
Black Hills and that often he Thought of old times
What he wanted for all the soldiers and agents
go away, and he would go back to his old home. AL
he wanted was traders. They were good; agents and
late but which means particularly bad in general
sense.


Black Bull spoke to me privately, and told me he
did not like to stay in Canada and would come back
to the agencies at the first chance. but that the
prevented him. found this to be the sentiment of
great many but that the Indian soldiers would not
allow them to come back.


It looks as If the Indians would have hard time
this winter. The buffalo all travelling south of
the Missouri, and without buffalo starvation must
cnsrc


Very erroneous ideas to the trafic Of ammuni-
ton xed seem to prevail generally among whites
this side of the line. The sale ~ by inds
crimilate; no AMMUNITION is sold without a permit
from the commanding officer Of the Mounted Police.
OF he is best able to decide the requirements
of the Indians. and of course without ammunition
they cannot kill buffalo and while there several
agency Indians refused the permit to trade Major
Walsh refusing them on the ground that they
not residents.


often reports of the liability of Sitting Bull to
menace the whites on this side of the line. Such is
not the and the that periodically in
thu. neighborhood of Benton arises from the fertile
Imagination of would-be hero. Sitting Bull and
all the chiefs that I talked with land this is the
opinion of the police who have daily intercourse with
them) said that the idea Of war with the United
States is not at all thought Of by the Indians. who
smart enough to realize that they would lose the
present position with the Canadian government, and
could gain nothing from the United States


While at the Wood Mountain young buck came
up from camp of runaways from the Spotted Tail
Agency, who had crossed the Missouri just ut the
mouth of Milk River. He said that his camp
sisted of thirteen lodges, and that great many would
attempt to get north this winter. He said that the
Choyennes would break out in short time. Tho
Cheycnnes he referred to those who surrendered
to General Miles last year. and IL they do it will be
bad for the white settlers.