me. My hair is
straight. I was free born on this land. An interpreter who signed
the treaty has curly hair. He is no man. I will see him hereafter.
I know I have been wronged. The words of my Great Father never
reach me, and mine never reach him. There are too many streams
between us. The Great Spirit has raised me on wild game. I know he
has left enough to support my children for awhile. You have stolen
Denver from me. You never gave me anything for it. Some of our
people went there to engage in farming, and you sent your white
children and scattered them all away. Now I have only two mounds
left, and I want them for myself and people. There is treasure in
them. You have stolen mounds containing gold. I have for many years
lived with the men I want for my superintendent, agent, and
traders, and am well acquainted with them. I know they are men of
justice; they do what is right. If you appoint them, and any blame
comes, it will not be on you, but on me. I would be willing to let
you go upon our land when the time comes; but that would not be
until after the game is gone. I do not ask my Great Father to give
me anything. I came naked, and will go away naked. I want you to
tell my Great Father I have no further business. I want you to put
me on a straight line. I want to stop in St. Louis to see Robert
Campbell, an old friend." Red Cloud then pointed to a lady in the
room, saying, "Look at that woman. She was captured by Silver
Horn's party. I wish you to pay her what her captors owe her. I am
a man true to what I say, and want to keep my promise. The Indians
robbed that lady there, and through your influence I want her to be
paid."

Secretary Cox replied to Red Cloud that the treaty showed how the land
was to be paid for. They were to be given cattle, agricultural
instruments, seeds, houses, blacksmith-shops, teachers, etc., and food
and clothing. The land is good in two ways: one is to let the game grow
for the hunt; the other, to plow it up and get corn and wheat, and
other things out of it, and raise cattle on it. The reason why so many
white men live on their land is that they treat it in this way. He
would correct Red Cloud in a remark made by him. "The whites do not
expect to take their goods with them into the other world. We know as
well as the Indians do that we go out of the world as naked as when we
came i