| Show ilia t 0 Stories of GREAT INDIANS By ELMO SCOTT WATSON VATSON Copyright western p r Union SAT SATANK ANK SHOWS HOW A KIOWA CHIEF CAN DIE DIEN OW I will show you how a n chief N LN can dIe dle I shouted Satank atthe of at the Klowas to the soldiers as lie Ito tore off otI the shackles in which thc they were leading him away to prison I call upon Those Above to witness that I Idie Idie Idie die like a man unafraid But I 1 do not SO go alone I take with me one of ot these white men upon the Long LonC Trail He lIe drew a knife which he lie had hud concealed concealed con con- upon his person verson and plunged the blade Into the side of one of his hll guards The next moment he fell feU to the time ground riddled with bullets As AI Ashe Ashe he fell tell he was singing his death son song He gave one last defiant then died Satank Set Set Sitting Sitting Bear Beare who was both a chief and medicine man was the leader lender of ot the Ka or Real Dogs the highest military order in the tribe This was a select body of ot ten of ot th the bravest warriors who were pledged to lead every cery desperate desperate des des- charge and ami to keep their place In the time forefront of battle until they won victory or death Once In a n fight with the Pawnees Sot anga engaged an enemy and ond was os about to stab him with a n lance when his foot slipped on the snow snout The Kiowa chief fell feU and the thc Pawnee sent an arrow through Satank's upper tipper lip Up This wo wound md left a n lifelong scar al although although although al- al though It was not easily seen for tor Satank Satank Sa Sa- tank wore a mustache a n rare thing among the Indians This incident showed the importance of ot Sa Satanic Satank tank in his tribe for the time calendar history of ot the 1 a n pictographic record of their great grent deeds gives it 11 as ns the the leadIng leading lead lead- Ing event ent of ot 47 and that year Is s known as the winter they shot the mustache In 1870 Satank's soul son was killed while raiding In T Texas The old chief went down into that state stute gathered the time bones In a bundle and brought ht them back Ever afterward he carried them about with him bin on a special horse kept them on a n special platform plat pint form torm erected In his tepee and amid gave feasts In hi honor of his son My Iy son Is s snot not dead he hc Is sleeping he would explain to the old men who gathered about the fire firc with him The next year in n company with Satanta Sa Sa- tanta and Big Dig Tree the Sitting SlUIng Bear Lear led a n war party Into Texas attacked a wagon tr train min and killed seven white men V When Hen he returned to Fort lort Sill he hc boasted of the time deed to General Sh Sherman who was visiting there Sher Sher- man mm or ordered the time arrest of the time three chiefs On lay 28 8 1871 when the military started to take Satank to to- Texas for trial as a n murderer he lie showed theme them how n a chief can cnn die |
