Three Years on the Plains: Observations of Indians, 1867-1870Tuttle, Edmund B. (Edmund Bostwick)
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Three Years on the Plains: Observations of Indians, 1867-1870
Tuttle, Edmund B. (Edmund Bostwick)
Frontier and pioneer life -- West (U.S.); Indians of North America; Indians of North America -- Great Plains
"For each male person over fourteen years of age, a suit of good
substantial woolen clothing, etc.
"Each female over twelve, a flannel skirt, or goods to make it, a
pair of woolen hose, twelve yards calico, and twelve yards cotton
domestics, etc.
"Ten dollars in money for those who roam and hunt, twenty for those
who engage in farming. For such as farm, a good American cow and
one pair broken oxen.
"1. The Indians agreed to withdraw all opposition to railroads
built on the plains.
"2. They will not attack any persons at home, or traveling, nor
molest or disturb any wagon trains, coaches, mules, or cattle
belonging to the people of the United States, or to persons
friendly therewith.
"3. They will never capture or carry off from the settlements white
women or children.
"4. They will never kill or scalp white men, nor attempt to do them
harm. The government agrees to furnish to the Indians a physician,
teachers, carpenter, miller, engineer, farmer, and blacksmiths, and
ten of the best farmers shall receive five hundred dollars a year
who will grow the best crops."
The names of the chiefs who signed the treaty are as follows:
_Brule Sioux._
Ma-za-pon-kaska, his x mark, Iron Shell.
Wah-pat-thah, Red Leaf.
Hah-tah-pah, Black Horn.
Zin-tak-gah-lat-skah, Spotted Tail.
Zin-tah-skah, White Tail.
Me-wah-tak-ne-ho-skah, Tall Mandas.
He-cha-chat-kah, Bad Left Hand.
No-mah-no-pah, Two and Two.
Spotted Tail, who was at Fort D. A. Russell in 1868, just after the
treaty, wore a coon-skin cap,--hence called Spotted Tail. Each chief
gets his peculiar name from some event in his life, or some peculiarity
of person, as for instance,--
Tah-shun-ka-co-qui-pah, Man-afraid-of-his-horses. His horse stampeded
one day, when his tribe was fighting some other one, and ran into the
ranks of the enemy. When his owner got back again, he left his horse
behind and _went in_ (as we say), on foot, to fight again. It is not a
term of reproach, as he was not a coward, but did not want to lose his
horse,--hence called "Man-afraid-of-his-horses."
_Ogallahs._
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