Show SATANTA SAT ANT A OF THE AS ORATOR OF THE PLAINS Set t White SATANTA NTA Bear Hear chief of the time Klowas ac acquired acquired Uc- Uc the sobriquet of Orator of the Plains nt at the famous Medicine Lodge treaty In n ISO 1513 where he lie made the time leading lending speech In reply to the government government gov gov- commissioners I love lo the theland theland theland land and the thc buffalo and will not part with them he declared I have ha heard that you OU Intend to settle us on ona ona ona a reservation near the mountains I dont don't want to settle I love to roam over the prairies There I feel free and happy but when we settle down we grow pole pain and die He had hind uttered the creed cred of the nomadic plains Indian and he Ime backed up his words with deeds lIe He was a daring leader lender and a merciless foe He literally painted the southern plains red his favorite fa color On the warpath he daubed his face hair hall and the upper part purt of his body bOlly with crimson and he painted his tepee entirely entirely en en- ly red with streamers of the same color at the ends of the poles Satanta Is a n tine looking Indian energetic and ancI sharp as a brier He puts on a good deal of style at his meals and spreads a n carpet for his guests to sit on He lIe has painted fire- fire boards for tor t tables ble and a brass French horn which he blows vigorously when the food Is read ready writes a government government govern govern- ment ph physician who was his guest In n 1805 1865 Satanta was a grim grimn humorist Once at nt Fort ort Dodge Gen Con W. W S. S Hancock gave guve him hint a u major generals uniform and the time Kiowa showed showell his appreciation tion of ot the gift by lIy putting It t on and leading an attack on the post Some Same time later Inter Satanta had the effrontery effrontery ef et- ef- ef to visit I Fort ort Harker clad lad In his generals general's uniform and riding In Inu ina u It government go ambulance drawn by el eight ht unties mules an equipage which he lie had captured In one of his raids With Witha n a 11 brawny Indian driver er lashing t the a mules l to 10 to top speed Satanta dashed Into the fort foit and announced that he had come to make male a n formal call on onGen onGen Gen A. A N. N Suit Sully who win was visiting thel theme In Satanta was sentenced to life imprisonment In the Texas state Le for having killed several se I whites In that HUlt state Att After r two years ears I he lit was released ed In ISH the I went on ou the warpath again and although although al al- though had Ball no part purt in the time outbreak outbreak out out- I break breal he hl was tit tu taken ken back to prison i On n October 11 18 8 he killed himself I J hy by y lumping from an an upper window v o 0 ol I ti I tn where he lie l lay my Ill UL |