| Show CROW DOG SAY HE COME WAS READY TO DIE W WHEN airn spotted tall backed by the military whom lie had bad aided usurped the head bead chieftain alp of the brule sioux ills highhanded high handed net act was resented ted chief crow dop dog nang g suta sui Y T took a vow to kill the head alef chief it if ever he disgraced the name of the Sich angil brutes Br ules years passed spotted tall drunk power misused his high office for personal ends ills 1113 people murmured but were powerless then he coveted the wife of medicine bear and coveting took her crow dog a relative ot of medicine bear remembered his vow on august 5 1881 he met spotted tall and shot him dead after which lie gave himself up lie he was tried at deadwood S D convicted of murder and sentenced to be bagged crow dog asked permission to say farewell to ills his family promising to return on the day set sel for the execution when crow dog did not show up the next day indian police were dispatched to get him lie be was not tit at home anil and hla his wife told them that the lie chief hat had wished to return to prison alone and would surely keep his promise the next adny the lie chief walked into the file jall jail at rapid city crow dog do say he come was his laconic reply to he be surprised greeting of his fits jailer meanwhile efforts were being made to save his life by a stay of execution ills case was carried to the supreme ourt court of the united states slates w Nl ilch ruled that the federal courts had no jurisdiction oer 01 er crime committed by on indian against another on a reserva tion so crow dog walked out ol 01 prison a tree free man teti ten years later crow dog was in the limelight again as one of th brute brule leaders who tied fled from the rose HOSP bud agency during the ghost danci craze to join the 0 Ogal allawas al lalas in the bat ba lands the brute brule inlet chief was soon con aneed that their cause wits was ho bo lie counselled counseller coun selled surrender but the were estil eager for war they caught up theli rifles and threatened to shoot chogi who wavered seeing this crow doi DO drew ills blanket oer ills his head I 1 do not wish to know who he would bi guilty of slaying a brother dakota he said ills his words so impressed tin th warriors that civil war was averter aberte and the hostiles ho stiles sullenly filed died into tin tbt agency to surrender it was crow dogs last war trall trail from that day he lived in peace oi 01 the rosebud reservation until ill hi death august 12 1912 1012 |
