Show EDITORS HEAR INDIAN PLEAD FOR JUSTICE Crowded Out by Gold Seekers With None to Befriend RAPID CITY s 6 S. D. D D June 21 By The Th Associated Press The Th orator of ot the Sioux using th the tongue of the Sioux has hu voiced t to the pale face the lament of ot his people Three hundred members of th the National Editorial association traveling through the land once one trod only by the feet of ot the red redman redman man listened last lut Friday to th the wards ards of Chief Strong Talk But Bu Buhe Buthe he ne spoke In his own on language language- and the editors did not understand From Pine Ridge reservation h he Journeyed to the Chadron Nebraska ka state slate park to give the editors editor his story TRANSLATION MADE L Today a translation of what wha Chief Strong Talk Mid Bald was nas given the editors as they prepared to end the South Dakota sightseeing This Is what the orator of the Sioux said Away to the north Is a II coun coun- country country try tn that once belonged to us I Iwas It was a II rich country to my people i because there was game and fish for tor food and animals of different kinds to provide us material for our wigwams and clothes We e cared not for the yellow stuff in inthe Inthe inthe the hills except for ornaments ornaments' ant and little of it we wo used The Great Spirit had given us all we e caret cared for tor and In the wild spots we lived JIved and were happy happ TROUBLE BEGINS One day there came a II man with a pick and shovel He dug up gold and when the news was sent back toward the rising sun there came hundreds of ot other white men with picks and shovels After Atter a while they said they would pay pa us for tor our land and homes but almost all we got was prom prom- They gave us land where there was little game no fish and no protection from the winter storms Now we have little of ot that land left and soon we shall have no place to call our own We must camp here and there as we may White men are too busy getting more gold and the white father at Washington who Is now playing on the grounds where we once dwelt delt does not speak for us If there Is no one to speak for tor us usand usand usand and the writers who are here will not write for tor us us then what can we wedo wedo wedo do but talk as I J am talking today And only my people understand |