Show 1 ft TATOffiA YOTUffi It Ho Is Better Known as Sitting 0 Bull and His Race Is Run 1rIt J Ijt I r ° A VERY REMARKABLE INDIAN JI A Warrior at 13 and a Powerful Diplomatist I I 1 At 56The Custer Masiacro Sitting Bulls Speech at the Monument f Siting Bulls active life is closed and according ac-cording to recent reports and if there is any t troth in Injun theology he may soon see Via happy banting grounds 4 1 a All T I t I A It SITTING BULL Sitting Bull has probably done as much Injun devilment in his time as any savage since Tecumseh Black Hawk wasnt a circumstance cir-cumstance to him and the most noted Apaches Apa-ches though more bloodthirsty were far inferior in-ferior in talent and consequently in destruction destruc-tion Ho was born in tho Black Hills in 18S3 his father being a Blackfoot Sioux and his mother tho daughter of an Uncpapa Sioux by anArickareowife Tho average eof Indians is much less than that of whites and so ho is now considered quite an old man and having hav-ing been preeminently successful in war and ambitious and eloquent in peace his influence influ-ence is very great His speech in lSC inciting in-citing the Crows to war is a fine specimen of Indian eloquence The joint council was held on the scene of the Custer massacre and pointing to tho monument he said Look at that monument I That marls tho work of my people IVe are respected and feared by the whito man because wo lulled h s great chief and moro than uCO of his warriors on this spot We receive one I and onehalf pounds of beef per ration but you get only onehalf pound yet wo do no work but ride and visit our friends us no please See your little log houses aud farms You arc tho white mans slave Ho is teaching teach-ing you to labor only that you may forget the use of your war paint and tho battle songs of your fathers zero stolen from the lips of your children by the senseless chants of tho schools by the black robes priests Is there blood in the veins of your young men Rise up against tho bloodless conquest that is turning your people into slaves I Tho reds red-s man was made by our Great Spirit to hunt and to fight to bo free as the prairie wind It is the white mans business to work He I is only a soldier when he is paid to bo ms EAHIY EXPLOITS I Of course the young warriors went wild at this and in no long time thero was a Crow outbreak Yet Sitting Bull was long the I terror of the Crows they and the Sioux being hereditary enemies His first exploit was I Crow killing He was so anxious to be considered con-sidered a man and a warrior that when he I was but 13 years old he and Shunkwilla I Little Fox finding a dead eagle stuck o its tail feathers in their scalp locks this being the sign of counting coup I that is of having struck an enemy The old I Indians laughed so much at them that the boys swore they would make the sign good I and started alone into the Crow country Two months later they reentered the village I with a war whoop driving fifteen captured ponies They had struck a Crow camp aqd hung about it many days till they obtained a chance to cut off two herders these they killed and got away with tho horses According to Indian custom the boys were given new names Sitting Bull receiving his because he had told of sitting like a bull in the willows watching the Crow camp Thereafter he took part in all manly sports and raids At eighteen he married an Assin i iboine girl Patrazeezeeweah Yellow haired 1 woman for whom ho paid her father five horses His first born was a son and to celebrate I cele-brate that good fortune ho organized a big raid on the Crows fought with great bravery I and showed rare strategy After many encounters en-counters with the Crows and other Indian enemies ho and his compatriots joined the I great league of 180163 against the whites but his usual good fortune failed this time Ho and several other chiefs with some TOO J I warriors made a desperate attack upon Fort Berthold but were reputed with a loss of some fifty killed and twice as many wounded wound-ed Tho war languished after that and little 1 lit-tle was done by the Sioux till 1SGO firnXXO BULL Ef PEACE It were a long story to relate the terrible I massacre of that year the ever varying fortunes of tho next nine years aud the great final disaster to the Custer command in 1S7Q During the five years succeeding the civil war the United States regular army was in the worst condition it over reached Men deserted by dozens in open day Hundreds enlisted simply to get transportation to the mining region and then deserted without fear or shame When something like regular discipline was restored the Indians were soon defeated and Sitting Bull went to Canada In no long time thero ws a general amnesty and he came back Several Sioux who took I part in the Custer massacre are now good I I Indians and not very bad farmers Jiving quietly on the Devils lake reservation D T Bat old Sitting Bull could not stay quiet very long he stayed out with the wild bands and tho late discussions at Standing Hock and elsewhere about selling their Dakota hinds WAs a sweet opportunity to his Bnllshlp For months he kept tho young Indians inline in-line against signing the treaty and wherever in the meantime trouble broke out among the wild bands the officials suspected the hand of Sitting BulL After inciting the Crows now friendly to the Sioux and others I he reached Standing Rock agency on the SOth of July of last year and within a few hours induced all the Indians to take the oath by I the Great Spirit that they would not accept ac-cept tho treaty as it then was Even John I Grass Mad Boar and others who had been I favorable down to that time backed squarely l out when they noted the effect of Sitting tr Bulls address on the young Indians Some of his remarks show great shrewdness the savage kind He objected to work and civilization for Indians generally but wanted I them to keep a few boys in the whito schools all the time so that there might be some warriors who could read and write and j therefore circumvent the white men and rascally ras-cally interpreters j This was his last mischief He was defeated defeat-ed as to his main schemes lost influence among the Indians retired io Ws hpIPOJD i I Grand fast River valiiy and thcrcolter failed |