| Show CROW DOG SAY HE CO COME ME WAS READY TO DIE spotted tall tail backed by W WHEN the military lie had aided usurped the head chieftainship ot of the brule brills sioux his highhanded high handed act was bitterly resented chief crow dog kakigi Si inka took a vow to kill the head chief if ever ho be disgraced the II 11 time mime of the chanKu Si brutes Br ules years passed spotted tat tall 1 drunk with power misused his high office tor for personal ends ills his people murmured but were powerless erless then lie he coveted the wife of medicine hear bear and coveting took her crow dog a relative of medicine bear remembered his vow on august 5 1881 lie he met spotted tall and shot him dead after which he gave himself up lie he was ivas tried at deadwood S D convicted of murder and sentenced to be hanged crow dog asked permission to say fare farewell Niell to his family promising to return on the day set for the execution when crow dog did not show up the next day indian police were dispatched to get him ile he was as not at home and his wife ilfe told them that the chief chaet had wished to return to prison alone and would surely keep liis his promise the next day the chief walked into the jail at rapid city crow dog say he be come was utis ills his laconic reply to the surprised greeting of his big jaller jailer meanwhile efforts were being made to save sae ills life by a stay of f execution ills case was carried to tile the supreme court of the united states slates which ruled that the federal courts had no jurisdiction over crime committed by one indian against another on a reservation so crow dog walked out of prison a free man ten years later crow dog was vas in the limelight again as one of the brule leaders who led fled from the rosebud agency during the ghost dance craze to join the Ogal lalas in the bad lands the brule chief was soon convinced that their cause was hopeless and lie he counselled counseller coun selled surrender cut but the were still eager for war they caught up their rifles and threatened to shoot those who wa watered ered seeing this crow dog drew his blanket over ills his head 1 I do not wish to know who would be guilty of slaying a brother dakota he said ills his words so impressed tile the warriors that civil war was averted and the hobt fles sullenly filed into the agency to surrender it was crow dogs last war trail from that lay day he lived la in peace on tile rosebud reservation until his death august 12 1912 |
