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Show TELEGRAPHIC MOtX AT HANIIINION. The I'rONiilom'rt Iteplj to Their WaahiuRtou, 28. The conference with the Indian delegations was re sinned this morning at the executive mansion. There wure present President Presi-dent iJayoa, members ol the cabinet, comruisciionrr ot Indian a 11 airs. IJU,.Ur..l nr,,L- u,w) nlLora T. pr-aideut tiaid lie was ready to hear the chiefs if tltcy wiahed to speak further. Alter a pause Spotted Tail spoke, inking that the lauds now occupied iiy his people be secured to them. A'i(t Bear, Hed Bear, Touch The Cloud and White Tail, applauded lm words. Red Cloud said tbe fool ul the hills is a good place to put my agency. I did not come here to beg anything. The Black Hills were mine, I gave them to the commis siuiu-ts. l suppose you are going to decide what you are going to give us lor the Hills, and I have come iu gel it, The other Indians having rfpukmi, General Crook advocated tlieir claim and the president was presented with the pipa of peace. The president said: My good friends you have desired to lake counsel with mo and I have permitted per-mitted you to come. 1 am glad to nee yon. I have attentively listened to what you have said. I have also heard Mr. Welsh and General Crook who spoke lor you rh your frieude, and who have my confidence. I have well considered all that was said. Now listen to toy auwur. I have your wellare siuceiely at heart, I will be a good friend to you. I shall be j glad to gratify your wishes when in my power and (or your own cood, luere is an understanding between you aud the white people which I want to have carried out by both. That understanding is thai you should yo to your reservation and occupy it; that the lands should he yours. I have removed the Poncas to the Indian In-dian territory to give you more room. I have promised to procure for you food lor your people to eat. The yreat council ol my nation the congress con-gress of ihe Uuiied Slates resolved and your chiefs and headmen agreed that the supplies to be furnished to you shuuld he delivered to you Dear the iliooouri river. This is what I was told. This ia what the great council tilled that promise. Your supplies have been carried to the Missouri riser, aud there they are now according accord-ing to our promiue. You say you do not like to ro to the Missouri river, but your supplies cannot be taken to any other place before your people will need them and before the cold days of winter come. If you do Dot go near the place where your supplies sup-plies are your people will be hungry and 1 shall not be able to give them lood. I desire to do all for you I can and therefore I want you to he in the place this winter where my helping naud can reach you, but I do not menu that you and your people Bhall aUy near the Missouri river always. You ahull stay there only this winter. When spring comes you shall Belect lor your permanent abode such land iu your reservation as you like bett. 'iY iiL-iiis win ,u j'uu in uniting tne selection. Your country is large and there is much land where you can cultivate tne eoil and raise crops and where catllu can be fed. That land is to he distributed among you. Jt is to be surveyed and allotted to each family to be its homestead. There your people can build cabins and make homes for their families. When that laud ia surveyed and allotted and jour families have taken possession of it I shall ask the great council of my nation to gire you cows and oxen and tools with which to till the soil that you may be able to provide for your own necessities. Idesireyou to have schools for vour chddren so that . tbey may be educated to take care of themselves and become induetrious and prosperous like the children ol oiy people. I hIsd wmh your people to have churches where they can worship. I shall pprak good words for you to the great council of my nation, na-tion, that it in.iy grant your people these benefits. II you are wise you will heed my advice. The game Is last disappearing from your country and you cannot alwuys live as hunters. hun-ters. Neither can we for all time provide for your wants and feed your people and .their children. If you wain to live iu security you must do as ihe white people do. You must work and learn to uroduce for vour .selves that which you need. Cattle and hoes and ploughs will bo more useful lo you than ponies and guns. To be educated so as to know how to work and bow to make their own living liv-ing by raising cattle and tilling the soil will bo better for your children than hunting buffalo and dancing war dances. When you look around you you will see that the white people are a great multitude which you cannot can-not count. Every year their numbers increase by far more than the number num-ber of all the red men in this great land. They cannot be kept away, from tbo western country and year alter year more of them go there. If you live roaming about without homes they will sweep over I 11lo n. orpfit. flnnH nf vaitpr To sustain yourselves against that Qood you must have homc3 in which you and your families permanently J live, and land on which you raise that which is necessary to Bupport you. Then you will have firm ground to stand upon. I am a good friend to you and your people, and as a good friend I give you this answer and advice. Now I will speak a word to the Arrapahoes. You desire to go wcet with your people to join the Shos-honesand Shos-honesand live with them as friends but if you go you must provide for your own support. The great council of my nation has given me no money to aid you on your way. If without such aid you will make the journey then I am willing you should go aud the agent whom I have sent to tho Shoshone feh.ill aho bo the agent for you. You have been goo! friends to the white ptople and I hope you will remain so. Let ua live in peace and friei.dbbip together and I will protect you yt'.iU a'l the power I have. I heard yesterday morning that forty lodges of the people of Cruzy Horse and Jjame Deer have gone north. As long as these pocple are north we do not know our fi lends from our en emits among them. It is of the greatest importance that you should keep all of these peoplo at the agencies. agen-cies. I know that your hearts ara right. It is impossible foi me to let those people go up into the 'I ongne river country until we know they are all our friends. It is necessary that all of the Iodinna tlnnld go down in the direction of ;ln; M.'aonri river to get their supplies, so as to be ready early in the spring to select the best lands on While river and other placeB on the reservation for cultivation. |