Show great white father when sitting bulls outlaw sioux massacred gen george A custer and five troops 0 of f the seventh cavally on the little big horn the U S rumbled with indignation amid all the ie furore the army brass was truck struck by a wonderful idea since it was almost impossible to catch mounted sioux why not take away their air horses this his scheme had obvious detects defects we the C hief chief of which was that sitting bull and most of his followers had makes tardy payment already ridden oft off to 0 canada canaan but the army put it into operation with vast enthusiasm in the fall and winter 0 of 1 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 1892 the U S govern government ment had paid a quarter of a million dollars in damages but even this left 2298 horses still unpaid for I 1 for indians 9 ponies by 1928 when an 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 granting them for ponies for property lost in the scuffle nobody suggested restoring the sioux to mobility by replacing the horses with secondhand second hand jeeps time magazine |