Show great white father makes tardy pa payment anent for indians pom ponies i es when sitting bulls outlaw sioux massacred gen george A custer and five troops of the seventh cavalry on the little big horn the U S rumbled with indignation amid all the furore the army brass was struck by a wonderful idea since it was almost impossible to catch mounted sioux why not take away their horses this scheme had obvious defects the chief of which was that sitting bull and most of his followers had already ridden off to canada but the army put it into operation with vast vasi enthusiasm in the fall and winter of 1876 cavalrymen seized ponies from baffled friendly indians at camp robinson neb and dakota indian agencies sioux and their friends were quick to clamor for payment by 1852 1892 the U ja S government had paid a quarter of a million dollars in damages but even this left 2298 horses still unpaid for by 1928 when an investigation of indian claims was authorized time had not simplified the problem but this spring 69 years after little big horn congress voted to pay off the last of the sioux claims last week the president solemnly signed a bill gran granting tind them for ponies for property lost in the scuffle scuff lc nobody suggested restoring the sioux to mobility by replacing the horses with secondhand second hand jeeps time magazine |