Show keat great white father makes tardy payment for indians ponies 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 wah 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 enthusiasm in the fall and winter ot of 1876 cavalrymen seized ponies from baffled friendly ri endly indians at camp robinson neb and dakota indian agencies sioux and their friends were quick to clamor tor for payment by 1892 the U S government had paid a quarter ot of a million dollars in damages but even this left 2293 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 ot of the sioux claims last week the president solemnly signed a bill granting them for ponies tor for property lost in the scuffle nobody suggested restoring the sioux to mobility by re placing the horses with secondhand second hand jeeps time magazine |