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Show STORY OF A "SQUAW MAN." The correspondent of the Omaha Hi raid with the Sioux commission relates tho following, which will give some insight into tho life and habits of the Sioux Indians. And now that there is such a wholesale denunciation of the Indians, In-dians, especially since they succeeded in exterminating one of our military commands instead of that military command exterminating them, a recital re-cital ol" THE OTHER SIDE OF THE SrOR may not be amiss. To do this I will give some poiuls which I obtained from a white man as we journeyed from Red Cloud tn Spotted Tail and v,bo:n I will call Mr. Daymnnd, principally prin-cipally because that is not bis name. Said he: '''My parents died when I was six or seven years old, and I was kicked around generally until I struck 'he Sinnv natinn at Fnrl. r.iramif in IRIS where they showed me sueh kindness that I thought they were the best people peo-ple in the world. by, in them days a nun could travel all over the Indian country in perfect safely, and if an Indian saw n po.ir emigrant hobbling along afoot, he would say 'Here, my friend, take this horse; you look tired, and I have got piemy of horses, so I will ivo you one.' And many a lime I've seen them take the moccasins off their own feet and give tiiem to a barefooted emigrant, emi-grant, I tell you, mister, times is different now, but the whites ,are to blame for it all." "And have you been with the Sioux constantly since ISiO?" .inquired .in-quired the Herald man. "Yes, sir; I took an Indian woman for a wife at Fort Laramie, as was the custom of the country, thinking I would stay a year or two and then go back to the settlements, but I kepi staying and haven't gone yet, that is, to stay. In lSGti, when the Sioux war broke out, 1 knew I couldn't join in it Mild so one night I said to my woman: 'Here, you people are coing lo light against the government, anil I'm goiue back to Uir states, I'll take our oldest boy, and will give you thirty ponies' it was all I had. Sno didn't Bay nothing, but the next morning morn-ing I says: 'Well, are you going to take the thirty ponies and go back tu your people?' and 6ue says, 'No, I don't want your ponies, I am going with you; wherever you go I'll go too.' Stranger, then and there I made up my mind I'D PACE THE MUSIC, And keep that woman till she died. Wo went back to Hamburg, Iowa. I was treated just as well bs a man could be by the people there that ia the respectable porlion of . Lhera. My boy is there now, going to school and has been for two yearB. He is twenty years old now aud is learning fust. "How old is your oldest boy? inquired in-quired the reporter of another white man in the party whom he knew to have spent most of his life among the Sioux. "Eight years old" was the reply. "No, your oldest by is over twenty," interrupted Dayinond, "but you're not his father. Hia father was an oflicer in the regular army and he belonged to the Van Rensaoller family of New York; I know all about him. That'3 the way with them fellers" continued Daymond bitterly. "They have children by Indian women and then desert them, while wo who stand by our families and try to make something of our children, Wli ARE CALLED "SQUAW MEN." There was John Tutt. His father was a white man, a trader at Fort Laramie in 1SPJ, John was one of the worst half-breeds on the plains, and I asked him one day, Bays I 'John, why are you all the time fighting the whites?' Says ho 'my father was a white man but he thro wed me away Ho made me an Indian and I'm a goiu1 to be a mean one.' I tell you. Mister, the most desperate men in Silting Bull's camp to-day are the sons of oflicera in tho United Slates army. When Gen. Taylor left Mexico he said: 'Twenty years from now, we can't whip tho Mexicans.' Willi the Sioux tho twenty years have p.isstd, and tuc whiles will never be able to whip them on account of the mixed blood. Tiny talk about exterminating the Sioux. I tell you its a big job to exterminate ex-terminate a nation, and the Sioux are the bravest people in llio world. And j there is no beonle on earth who think more of their women and children. Let a lot of soldiers attack a village where the women and children are, and the Sioux will whip them three to one. Thai's where Custer made a mistake. Il he had not attacked n village where there was women and children, the Indians would nut have fought bail tO dtsperate. And tii'-n, loot at the expense- il "ill b lo the governuit nt Lo try to exterminate the rMuiix. Why, I was out as a guide with Col. Cole, in the Conner expedition expedi-tion and that cost 7,OtO,lw0, though there wiifl only six Indians killed." "pl'T YOrnsKI-F IN HIS FLACE." Daymond has the advantao of an inside view in considering the question of an Indian war. His plan for settling set-tling the present difficulty, is to aliow all northern In'iiain ircc access to the southern country after the agenr:) Indians are moved to the Indian territory, aud he nays that in a short time lucre wiii be no hojlilts in the country. |