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Show THE GOOD INDIANS. Inspector Yaudevere Says the Asency I ml inns Will Nell tli II luck HillH. Washington, 14. Indian Inspector Vandervere reports that at a council with the Ked Cloud and Spotted Tail ttgencies, June SOth, the chiefs and others expressed their willingness to relinquish the Black Hills country on terms offered by Yandevere. The chiels promised to keep their people it home and to remain about the agencies. They declare, and evidence evi-dence here sustains Iheir declaration, that very few Sioux are absent, and that it is chiefly the Cneyennes n-unuiVP mtlTTTET nFPRFlt ATI(IV in this neighborhood, and who have gone north to join the hostiics. The inspector says : The arrangements with the Indians that I reg.ird as practicable at the present lime is ft:i agreement between them and the government, by which they shail relinquish re-linquish all their rights to the Bhu-k Hillsand consent lo such dinruithed boundaries of their reservation as shall secure this object. In consider ation of this relinquishment the government shall guarantee to continue con-tinue supplies of food and otiier articles lo them as under tUe former treaty, for five years from the d.ite of :he new agreement. I wo ild further stipulate with the Indians tiiat they shall, whenever government requires, consent to THE REMOVAL OF TIIEIK AGENCIES from their present location to ar.y noint on the Missouri river, where better farming lands can be found, or to wherever the government may choose to transfer them to better their condition. As an inducement in-ducement to their consent to duch removal or transfer, then should be oflered them a rtafonable Bupply of stock, cattle, oxen, farming implements, lumber for houses, cooking stoves and utensils, wagons, etc., to be distributed to those only WHO TAKE LAND ASD SETTLE upon it for cultivation, or who engage en-gage in stock raising or other useful industry. Provision also should be made tor schooling children and (or the instruction ol young men in the mechanics artd. Law should be established among them the same as among the while men. I would give the Sioux tribes the privilege of sending one of their own people to nil as a delegaie in congress. Nearly the entire force of the agency Indians are here now AND ANXIOUS FOR rr.ACE. Statements representing a different aUto of things are nt entitled to credit, Nolhiug could he more unfortunate un-fortunate tliau to stop lho ratious of these Indians at the present timo and to thus drive them to the alternative of e telling or starving. Appended lo the report ia tho following statement state-ment of flear-Stands-Up, an ludian ot the Spotted Tail agency, who arrived from Sitting Bull's camp June 2.3th: I went north to tho hostile cmip for tho purpose of bringing home some relations and children belonging to my wilo. There are a fuw northern Santees, Yanktonais, A-winahoines, Arrickarees and Orosvcntres. The chiefs of the alwvo are Sanieo Ro:l End ot tho Yanktoniaa, While Face, and others not known. Of the above thero are very few people- of the northern Ciioyennes. Black Moccamn is chief of about 170 lodges. Of the Black font tho chiof is S- ubby lluad; of the Uncaps tho chief h Silling Bull; of lho Sanaarcs tho chitit in Shotted Eatle: of tho MuincconrauH the chiof is Black Shield; of the Ogallallas the chiof is Crazy Hurc In all th3o there aro little over 2,XKJ lodges. Alter the troops got into the country I could not get away, and the Indians made tho soldiers watch tho camp and keep tho people togothor. I talked with Sitting Bull before leaving, and then moved my lodge out in the night, coming very fur around lo keep out of tho way of both Indians and troops, and came homo by the road known as tho old Fort I'ierro road on tho oust sido of tho Biuck Hills, Btriking tho mad about halfway betwnen tho Missouri and the Black HiHs, and thun came ilraight to this ug'mcy. Sitting Bull sends word to my agent, to Biftouelto and to Bouchol, that ho docs not intend in-tend lo molest any one south of the Black Hill, hut will light the whites in that country tw long as the quest Ion is unsettled, and it will not be settled as long as he lives. As hood as the Black llillnquc-lion is solth d ho wantu hiy agent to send him word urul tell him what to do. H" y he linds a grvat many gnu" and nlhr Uumh about the lluls where whitn men have- killed each other and left ihem on tho prairies. Hitting Hull osltetl how Lho Brules wcro treated at thoir agency. I told him well, but hedoce not believe it. He does not want to j fight the whites, only steal from ihem as they have done. While men steal and the Indians won't come to a settlement. The whites kill themselves, them-selves, make the Black Hills stink with so many dead men. He says he heard that Indians coming from the agency would not beallowsil to return. re-turn. He has made a law that no visitors shali pass between ihe agency and his camp, either Indians or whites. When the rascality about the Black Hills is settled, then he will stop hts rascality. Government has promised prom-ised much to the agency people that never was fulfilled, and it wauls to move the agencies again. If moved, who will occupy the land? It belongs be-longs to you if you remain where you are. I want you to scud me word if good white people want lo listen to the great lather no more. Your young men will listen to their chief.-Sitting chief.-Sitting Bull says that if troops come out to them he must fight them, but if they do not come out he intends to visit lliis agency and will counsel hia people for peace. Bear-Stand Up, who makes this statement, is reliable. He was in Silling Bull's camp nineteen days, from about May 25ih to Juno loth. |