Year: 1875

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The chief warrior led into the by the master
OF ceremonies aud rected long list of his achieve
ments in which he had shown his bravery and cruelty
70 his enemies Dancing followed and continued until
| the spectacle began to grow monotonous


The most hideous looking OF the painted braves was
the clown. His body was a dark yellow and the lower
half of his face deep green Behind he tail of
huge feathers which spread out fan. shaped and
some of them decorated with blue and red ribbons.
This portion of his establishment looked if il should
properly belong to the American bird OF freedom. His
nude legs groesquey covered with figures of new
moons, eagle beaks and talons He exaggerated the
gestures OF the dancers with a degree of humor
looked for in Indian. He was living carcature.


When the commissioners we're wearied of the specta-
Gle they presented to the medicine man order upon
the trader for presents, and the Oma departed
They aterward visited traders and several
white mems ooges marched home to their village
at dusk to the sound Of the drum This evening there
considerable festive excitement in the tepees near
the agency and songs and the sound Of the drum are
heard internationally.


Last evening Spotted Tail again called upon the Com
msioners and told them that he accompanied by Two
Strike and No Flesh, had called upon Red Cloud, Red
Dog Young Man Afraid of His Horses in the after
noon at that village and had tried arrive at
| agreement with them to the place of the Council
| He proposed the 0gaals chiefs that II be held a
short of the Old Spotted Tail Agency, ten
miles from this point They declined to listen to any
such proposition. Red Cloud said that If the Council
took place the prairie he wanted it TO be on Horse
Creek; otherwise he wanted held in the sockade at
the agency Spotted Tail informed the Commissioners
that he desired them confer with Red Cloud and Red
Dog and try to induce them to become more reason
able He said that if it impossible for his Indians
to como to the Of the Ogaaa chiefs there ought
to be two separate councils Spotted Tail concluded by
saying that he could meet the Commission wherever
! they wished


| SELECTION PLACE.


The expedent of referring the question to committee
of six chiefs having failed the Commissioners at ten
O'Clock last evening, decided to the
to choose the council seat themselves They
ignored their former selection of spot the Crow
Buttes and rode out this morning in different direc-
! tion to find what they sought


1t will be remembered that some of the Sioux war
rors have expressed superstitious fear Of holding
council in the vicinity OF the Crow Buttes They de-
nominate them "war buttes :" and to think them
capable of an unucky influence upon the fortunes OF
the Dakotahs Twenty ago they roamed far south
of the North Platte River, and did not come further
north than the Cohile their hunts The Absaroki or
Crows then possessed the northern portion OF the
try west of the Missouri and east of the Rocky Noun
tans apd neghbors and enemies of the Sioux,
they s are, although driven by the latter into the
Big Horn Mountains which they rightfully hold
On one occasion they came down upon the herds Of
the Sioux 'ike wolf the fold" captured much
| of their stock, but were dercey attacked by over
| whelming numbers of the enemy and sustained for
| long time losing fight They that if escape
effected they all doomed to bite the dust
Night came and they retreated from the plain border
ing the White River toward the tall bluffs the SOUTH
and climbed up the sopng side to the summit of the
larger OF the Crow Buttes, also known Dancers
Hill 1t is a small space few hundred yards in ex-
tent but here for time their bleeding and exhausted
band held an advantage and fought with desperation
But Sioux had the pass by which they had gone up
the hill guarded closely They could not retreat
by the way they mad On the second night how
ever when their food exhausted they up their
buffalo robes and tied strips of them firmly together.
Each man lowered himself safely down the perpendcu
lar side Of the butte, the north, which had been left
unmatched by the Sioux They left on the summit one
of their dogs, which kept up continued barking that
deceived the enemy the faith that they still
there. The surviving Crows got back to their
country. The disappointment of the Sioux great
They have never forgotten it and ascribe to the ILL
luck Of the place.


The Commission chose a spot on the banks of the
White River about miles of this agency and
two miles from the mouth Of Little White Earth Creek


NEW ARRIVALS


This morning score Of chiefs, Of the Upper Yanck
tonas tribe of Sioux, who with their families, had just
arrived here from the Standing Rock Agency presented
their respects to the Commissioners and shook hands
with all the white persons present The principal of
them arc Mad Bear Red Wolf Bare Ribs, Red Horse
Yellow Rabe, Cross Bear, Big Knees and Big Head
The Commissioners expressed pleasure at seeing them
and said that they would send word to all the Indians
to-day that the Council would begin the White River
I Tha lavaa 4 thana and


HINTS ABOUT COMMISSIONERS


This Council will probably be officially baptized
either as the "Crow Butte" or the "white River"
Council The question has not yet been settled.
Either would be sufficiently proper None of the
Commissioners will yet express definitely opinion
upon the terms which they hope to make with the
Indians Senator Allison, the chairman, is in favor of
giving only the value Of the land comprised in the
Black Hills as a wild and unsettled country, less the
the government of surveys necessary for fixing
boundaries and He says that after a certain
has been given the Indians, Immediately after the
purchase annuity of from 100000 to $500 900 may
paid to them for the period of thirty years He also
speaks of making provision for the education of
their children and the future encouragement of civilized
pursuits This is mere outline of his views, but at
present he will not dvulge his ideas fully
General A. II. Terry is disposed TO conclude the
negotiation with much busness-like brevity
possible. Speaking comparatively of the
difficulties OF the present treaty making and
of that Of 1865 considered the latter greater The
Indians then in great ferment the Union Pacific
Railroad building, and the public had but shortly
before Mortified by the Fort Phil Kearney
Gre The reader will remember that Red Cloud, Red
Dog Red Leaf three of the pet chiefs to participate
this Council leaders in that terrible work Gen.
eral Terry said there was hazard in the Commission
trusting themselves utterly to the good faith of the
Indians but did apprehend any treachery their
part He however thought it wise to go the Council
the beginning with guard Of 100 soldiers that the
Indians would become used to their presence and If
danger arose. the force could be increased without caus
ing trouble The difficulty in having troops in the
neghborhoord of the Council tepee would be the pro-