Year: 1875

Iere he displayed himself though he we're gada-
tor in Libby PRISON. My Great Father sends food,
but have 20 pay for It. At Washington we told
TO keep the white men who suited and II the others
would not leave TO drive them from the
reservation or kill them. They told US to 60
70 work like white man, chop wood,
cut hay sell i and buy what needed We have done
il and the agent sells what is already ours. The
Washington fathers the biggest liars they
find. thought had good liars here but these beat
them all the time. They kill our beef and when we
out the and storm they send US the feet
and horns and entrals The Great Father said
should have some guns We received half OF them;
Sperry kept the others They give calico to sdaaws
but not enough for sleeves be used for the
pappooses


THE AGENTS ASSUMPTION


''Sperry tells that all have belongs to him; that
he can do as he -peases He kills our calves and we
get none but for fity cents no will sell mouthfu of
food at his boarding house. Some Of the white men
have been with US long We like them well spcrry
sends them away 50 that he make money. We
shall watch him. He wants to move the fort that he
may steal All tho potatoes sold by him He gets
plenty Of money and don't see it. He gives us
none Of the wheat and oats; get nothing but the
poorest -four that the white men can make All the
rest IS sold. We sent good man to Washington as
interpreter. They did not want him Sperry wanted
man to help him lie, he got another interpreter
The little pork and little -four which get makes
poor.


sPERRY's ECONOMY.


''When sperry gets his pocket full of money he goes
away to the East whore his people live and leaves it
there He comes back with none / saw his brother
Dave piling up money with my own eyes, and he took
IT with him when he went down the river to Bismarck
There three nations of Indians here and the great
white Father sends them the biggest thief and the
greatest liar. That is why we are so poor. Look
around my house What do you seer My children
poor. There is white mans food here. There
100 barrels of sugar in the warehouse Sperry said
should have OF when it We have got
oft yet He don't want any one around here who tells
the truth and is kind to The Great Spirit knows
that he is bad man. l wish he would go away and
come back"


MORE TRADERS WANTED.


Rushing War Eagle showed his good sense when he
said d-sIn Washington l asked the Great Father tor
more suttlers. He said should have them But
there is only one and pay high We used TO live on
game and buffalo There are few now and we have to
live on the white mans promise If you see
the' Great Father tell him to take Sperry and
keep him. can't see him. He won't look me in the
face He is looking away for something to steal We
asked him for some wagons. He took money and
bought old wagons from the contractors They
good for nothing They have been used and broken
Our ponies can't pull big heavy wagons Provisions
sent then burned in the fire. The fire caught in
sperry's house. He says it started in another place.
He is liar 1t caught in his saw it there first
l tell this because he is big liar


"Courtenay gives US little moro when the agent is
gone and when he comes back he says, What makes
you give the Indians muchS am boss here Courte-
nay gives to the poor people and to the children you
get back the East before sperry leaves keep him. and
don't let him to any more"


RUSHING WAR EAGLES MARX.