Year: 1875

Crows Breast chief of the Gros Ventres pronounced
Gro yawns lives log house twenty five feet square.
1t is regular old curiosity shop, There are a good
Fireplace such is in the white mans teepee;
two beds, window in the roof gentlemans trunk
with lock- nicely vanished railroad map Of the
Sedaia route. showing the full figure OF woman, pic
ture of Kaakaua King of the Sandwich Islands, and
portrait Of the author OF "Ginxs Baby.n The wall IS
adorned with buffalo robes There is iron latch
the door and curtains and sheets the beds As
about TO take seat among the warriors nmble
young buck of seventeen summers brought me q nice
white pillow. I told him that Of the HERALD
correspondents are allowed sit pillows At this
six seven warriors and bowed, saying, 'White
editor is a wise man. He knows what is good for his
little boss farmers" Whereupon the young buck seized
the pillow and flung it contemptuously into corner
The interview then began.


Mr. s'Cherry in his mouth" said that there hty
head soldiers among the Gros yentres and a hundred
other soldiers under them


CROWS BREASTS STATEMENT


'sThe Rees and Mandans have been to Washington.
We have not We would like to the Great Father
Our hearts glad meet from the white nation
We want our voice to be heard by friends. We
are poor The little agent told US to chop wood and
work and he would pay in money. We do it and get
nothing but provisions and checks on the
traders store The Indian does not want to 60 far
away TO see the agent and get his food he will
have to do when the Office is moved We want to live
near the agency We will tear the new houses down,
but we don't how many new houses he builds if
they The old and blind cannot go far in
cold weather. We know that he steals goods and
our cacoes Three Of guns sent to head
soldiers, but they got only few OF them


STORY OF THE YrRE


con the night OF the hre aght seen in Sperry's





lamp to burst God knows that he thief and liar.
He gives few rations and we poor. We get
neither sugar nor coffee Courtenay, the clerk. is
good man. He gives all he can. He gives full
weight and when sperry is away get moro than
when he is here. We would like to see the Great
Father and tell him how treated Courtenay is
the we like He don't lie to u.s. We want Sperry
to go away and not back again He pays US In our
food when he promised to give money. When he
kills our beef he gives us the feet head horns and
trails. When they gone he gives piece Of beef
the size OF my two hands for sixteen persons. When
the cattle issued to foot they poor with
no flesh their ribs. We don't get moro than half
Of what the Great Father sends This fall will have
all the cattle, and faten and kill them ourselves We
want them turned over to us; we herd them and
XIII them need them. The Great Father talks,
but his words don't come to they sent All
know that we friendly 70 the whites. They have
killed four Of our people, but We say nothing.
tell the young 70 be friendly with the palefaces
and live with them in peace The agent takes our
goods and puts them away. lie hires to work cheap
and sells Us provisions in return at high prices.
He steals half our blankets and then gives US a few.
Last winter, after the horns feet tails and entrails
gone got beef for four lodges every month
The government interpreters like sperry. They
make say things that false and they tell things
that the white do not say. Some Of people
received no blankets calicoos"


The chief closed the interview by showing blanket
where it had been burned in branding There is uni
versa complaint about IT, In putting the brand they
burned and the fibre becomes rotten that holes
in the centre Of the blankets II is easy for
the trader the brands and make the blankets
into coats