Year: 1878

told the Indian chiefs at Red Cloud
Agency that they must decide on a
place for the future location of their
tepees, so that he could report the con-
clusions to the authorities at Washing
ton. If they wanted to go to Tongue
river they must say so, or if they pre-
ferred White Clay river they must
manifest it by the same oral sign. Red
Cloud got his men together and gave
to each small stick which was bal
lot. Those who favored White Clay
river were to give their sticks to the
head chief, and those who wanted to
locate on Tongue river were to pile
their sticks on the ground. The result
of this operation was that Red Cloud
got all the sticks, and White Clay was
the unanimous choice, much to the
chagrin of their leader, who favored
the other place. White Clay creek is II
fork of White river, and the Indians
paradise is u short distance north of
the line between Dakota and Nebraska,
and about "a miles from old Red Cloud
Agency. 1t is not now probable that
the Government will permit this change
to be made, as it would involve over one
hundred miles of wagon transportation.
DIR. Irwin says that the only departure
Of Indians from his agency was that of
u squad of less than hundred Mime
conjous (Northern Indians), under the
leadership of Touch-the-Clouds, which
Joined his people on the march from
the old to the new agency. He sent
word to the Cheyenne Agency of their
departure for the north, and a military
force from that post intercepted and
captured them, took their arms and
ponies from them and compelled them
to go into the Cheyenne Agency, where
they now are. DIR. Irwin does not an
ticipate trouble among the Indians if
they are permitted to move in the
spring.


SPOTTED TAILS INDIANS.


Spotted Tail and his chief men
held a council at the agency, and
unanimously decided that they would
locate on the south fork of the White
river, about 70 to 100 miles from the
nearest point of the Missouri, and 100
miles west of Ponca agency. They wish
to start in the spring, when the grazing
is good. They say there is too much
rain and mud, and that the grass
does not cure in the fall like that of the
country further west; therefore their
ponies and cattle die or cannot be kept 4
in good condition. The President has
promised that they should return in
spring, and now they have fixed upon a
country they like, well watered and
timbered, and with plenty of good
grass. t.s.


''BULL EAGLE'sr STORY.


"Bull Eagle,' an old Sioux chief who
has maintained peaceable relations with
the whites for seven or eight years past,
and who enjoys the confidence of the
military officers and Indian agents to
an unusual degree, was recently sent
from Cheyenne Agency, Dakota, to Red
Cloud and Spotted Tail Agencies to
learn the feeling of the Sioux, and on
his return made the following report.


81 left here the day 1 got my pass
and reached Red Cloud Agency the
fourth day, in the morning. AS l ar
rived l saw the last of a number of
lodges that were running away; the
party commenced leaving the day left
here. 1t was composed of Minnecon-
jous, Sans-Arcs, Ogallalas, and Brules.
1 learned that an Indian came from
Sitting Bulls camp in the British pos
sessions, who brought word to the In
dians at all the Agencies from Sitting
Bull, for them to join him, and when
they all arrived there they would unite
and make war upon the American gov
ernment. The messenger told the In
dians that they would be allowed three
months to join Sitting Bull in the Brit
ish possessions, and that if they were
not there by the expiration of that
lluc, tiiey Wouiu 10 SohoitiCicu OhCiiiSs'
and would be fought the same as the
whites. One of the Indians who went
out with these lodges from Red Cloud
came back, and reported that all the
Indians who had left there had rendez.
voused on Elk creek, at its junction
with the Cheyenne, and from there
they went in body. Before they left
this camp they had q medicine dance
and called on the Great Spirit to pro
tect them and carry them safely through
to the British possessions. They SEN
ten persons--nine men and one woman
in advance, to notify Sitting Bul
that this big camp was coming. There
were one hundred and fifty lodges il
this camp on the Cheyenne. told th'


Indians at Red Cloud that the wore
this man (Sitting Bulls messenger) hat


brought was very bad, and they ough


not to heed it. l also sent word to th'


messenger to the same effect. Hi


name vas THE Leavings,' a Cheyenn


Indian, but one that always lived witt


the Sioux. This is the second trip, AM


both times he has induced Indians t.


folloy him away. 1 remained at tn


Red Cloud camp longer than shoul


have done, (he stayed four days owe


his pass but was hard at work all th