nd giving the history of the Indian life, which will be a great benefit
to you, and also benefit the people who are coming in later years. This
evening I am rejoicing here, and I feel just as if you were present with
this gentleman, and I feel just as if I were about to talk with you."

[Down the Western Slope]

Down the Western Slope

We may pass on now to some events in the life of Umapine. Again he must
speak for himself: "When I grew old enough to know something, I saw my
folks digging potatoes and onions, and gathering corn; these they got from
the white people the summer before. The Indians used to plant these every
year, and when the emigrants went through and asked for a little my folks
used to give them all they could spare. There came a time when the
Indians and the white people had a war. I did not feel like interfering
or trying to make any trouble, so I did not go to the war at that time.
Some years after that the Indians had a fight among themselves, and I
participated in that war. The Sioux Indians used to ride all over this
country, and they stole horses from my tribe. When my people learned that
their horses were stolen, they started on the warpath. We overtook the
Sioux with the horses along about 3 P.M. as near as I can remember; we did
not have watches in those days, and I think it was about that time. We
killed four of the Sioux Indians and recovered our horses, the Sioux only
killing one Nez Perce who was with us. I remember another war that
happened not very long ago. These were Indians from the southern part of
Oregon. They were on the warpath and had started up north and killed many
sheep herders and farmers, and killed their children and destroyed their
houses--burned them up. They came to our country and began to burn up the
houses of the white farmers. These Indians came into our agency. Major
Conyer, Uncle Sam's man, was agent at that time. I think he died last
April. The Indians then met Uncle Sam's men about a mile and a half south
of the agency, and we Indians were watching to see if the soldiers would
be driven back by these Indians; we were ready to help Uncle Sam's men.
The hostile Indians headed down to our camp, and when we saw them coming
toward our camp we at once knew that they wanted us to get into the mixup
so that we would be on the warpath as well as themselves, but all of our
men got their weapons and we me