Year: 1870

mula of Misunderstanding, the commits
sioner announced to the chiefs that
what Red Cloud had spoken to them
had been thought over, and the Secre-
tary of the Interior would now give
our reply. His words were the words
of the President on the subject of Red
Clouds speech.


Secretary Coz said--"We will believe
what Red Cloud says, but as ovr pco-
pie are frightened, we cannot say that
we will give them guns. We must
walt until thcrc is peace with all the
Indians before we can do IL. Our peo-
pie are not TO como on the Indian res
ervations, but they will come out along
the line of the railroads, and be near
them in this way. The government
will send Mr.. Brnnot (whose presence
at the council was indicated to the In
dians) this summer TO sec them, and
to see that they get tho rations which
will be sent to them. Whom he goes
he will ask what Is the best thing we
can do for them. He will ask them If
anybody has done them any wrong,
and they can tell him. When he
comes back we will try and do what he
says they need to have done. The
great thing we want TO say to them is,
that If they will keep peace we will
try to do everything they ask that is
right"


RED CLOUDS GRAFTON.
Thisconcluded theSecretary's speech
to the Indians, and after few mo-
ments, during which Red Cloud SEEM
ed to be in n very deliberative mood,
that distinguished chief arose and came
TO the table where sat the officials. He
shook hands with those at the table in
the council-room, and delivered the
| following grafton:


81 came from where the sun sets.--
| You We're raised on chairs. / want to
sit where the sun sets. Here the In
dian warrior sat upon the floor, in In
dian fashion, and procecded:1 The
| Great Spirit has raised me this way
| He raised me naked. l run no opposi-
| ton to the Great Father who sits in
the White House; 1 don't want to
fight. L have Offered my prayer TO the
| Great Father that | might come here
safe and well. What | have to say to
you and to these men, and to my Great
| Father is this Look at me! | was
raised where the sun rises, and now


| come from where he sets. The ma
ton which has the bow and arrow, the
| red men and the whites, were raised
| together in this land. Whose voice
was first heard in this land? 1t was
the red people who used the bow. The
Great Father may be good and kind,


but | can't see it. / am good and Kind


to the white people and have given


my lands, and have now come from
| where the sum sets, to see you. Tho
Great Father has sent his people out


there and left me nothing but an is


land. Our nation is melting away like


the snow on the side of the hills where


the sun is warm, while your people


are like blades of grass in spring when


summer is coming. | don't want to


see the white people making roads in


our country. Now that | have come


unto my Great Fathers land, SEQ if |
have any blood when / return to my


home. The white people havesprinkled


blood on the blades of grass about the


line of Fort Fctternian. Tell the
Great Father To remove that fort, then


we will be peaceable and there will he


no more trouble. | have got two noun


tains in that country, Black He's and


Big Horn. | want no roads there


There have been stakes driven in that


country, and | want them removed.


| have told these things three times,
and have now come here to tell them
I for the fourth time. have made up my
: hmiHd to talk that way. / don't want


my reservation on the Missouri. Some


of these people here are from there,
and know what | say. What l hear


is that my children and old men are


dying Off like sheep. The country


does not suit them. / was born at the


forks of the Platte. My father and


mother told me that the land there be-


longed to me. From the North and
| A l.. n 10


the Great Fathers house. We are the


last of the Ogallalas. We have come


to know the facts from the Great Faith


er why the promises which have been


made to us have not been kept.


want two or three traders that we Rsk


for: At the mouth of Horse Creek, in


1852, there was treaty made, and the


man who made that treaty (alluding


TO Gen. Mitchell, who performed that


service for the government) is the only


one who told me the truth. Goods


which have been sent out to me have


been stolen all along the road, and on


ly n handful would reach me TO go


among my nation. Look at me here.


am poor and naked. i was not raised
with arms. l always want to be peace
able. The Great Spirit has raised you
to read and write, and has put papers


before you, but he has not raised me
} in that style. The men whom the
} President sends us, soldiers and all,
have no sense and no heart. l know
il to-day. What has been done In my


country | did not ask. The whites arc


going through my country and killing
game, and il is the Great Fathers fault.
You are the people who should keep
peace. For the railroads you are pas
sing through my country l have not
received even so much ms brass ring
for the land they occupy. / wish you


to tell that TO my Great Father You
whites make all the ammunition
What Is the reason you don't give IL 10
me? Are you afraid l am going TO


war? You are great and powerful,
and am only n handful. / do not want


il for that purpose, but TO kill game
with. l suppose l must at some time
go to farming, but cannot do it right
: away"


Each sentence of this speech was


received with long grunts, denotine
r hearty applause from the Indians
, present.


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