147 YEARS AGO

Gen. Hancock Among the Kiowa, Apache, Arapaho and Cheyenne

After burning the Indian village Hancock moved south to Fort Dodge, where he met a number of chiefs of the Kiowa and Arapahoe tribes. They all talked peace and asked for presents.

From Fort Dodge Hancock marched to Fort Larned, where he held a council with Sa-tan-ti, the war chief of the Kiowa tribe. Sa-tan-ti’s was the finest specimen of Indian oratory that I ever listened to. His talk opened with an allusion to the fact that Colonel Leavenworth, agent of the Kiowa tribe, and who sat near him, had misappropriated the goods of the tribe, and had not dealt fairly with them. “Satan-ti

THE INDIANS AT WASHINGTON, SEPT. 27

The Indians had a grand pow-wow at the White House today and held a council with the great father. All the cabinets except Secretaries Sherman and Thompson, were present, and the proceedings were conducted with formality and dignification in the east room. A long row of chairs were placed in a semi-circle for the Indians and the President and his Cabinet, with Indian Commissioner Smith, Gen. Crook, John Welsh of Philadelphia and other distinguished gentlemen sat in the midst. Mrs. Hays sat at the right by the side of Spotted Tail, with her youngest children, Scott and Fanny, on either side, and Spotted Tail greeted Scott Hays with “How Little Brave.”