I was
their enemy. I was told by General Miles at Fort Kearny that we must not
fight any more, that it was the orders from Washington. I remember
General Miles well. I know him and I am a friend of his. When General
Miles told me what I ought to do, it was just as though he put me in his
hand and showed me the white man and the Indian, and told us we were all
to be good friends, so that is the reason General Miles' name is a great
name among the Cheyennes as well as the whites. And your coming among us
is just like General Miles; you are helping the Indians and can help them.
They need help for they are all poor. After the Indians settled down and
General Miles had told us what the Great Father at Washington wanted, and
after I had succeeded in settling the Indians, the order came from
Washington that we should take up land and call it a claim. So I looked
all around for land on which to settle; then I went over to Tongue River
on the Rosebud so that my family and children could be reared and have a
home. All that I have told you is true. General Miles told me that when
I settled down and took this land, there might be some people who would
come along and try to cheat us out of our land, but not to pay any
attention to them, that it was our land. There are a great many people
settled in Montana in the land that belonged to the Indians. These people
are raising lots of cattle and ought to be good to the Indian. I have
been on this land for over twenty years, but we are not yet accustomed to
the white man's food: we love the meat yet, and we long for the buffalo.
There is a great deal of land leased by cattle men in Montana, and the
money ought to go to buy more cattle for the Indian, and clothes for our
children. I like to tell the truth just as I have seen it with my own
eyes, and I will have another good story for you to-morrow night. I am
getting old, but when I begin to talk about the old times I think I am
young again, and that I am the biggest of them all."

[Custer Scouts]

Custer Scouts

THE STORY OF THE SURVIVING CUSTER SCOUTS

Too little stress has been laid upon the values accruing to the safety and
success of the United States troops, in their warfare on the western
frontier, from the services of Indian scouts.

A wild and often inaccessible country to traverse, with none of the aids
of electricity or modern travel; with