I know he will be ashamed of himself by-and-by. I scratched him and bit him on his back, and then my poor grandfather rode up to the tents where they were, and he was asked to stay there all night with them. But Johnny ran all the faster and got away from him. Then my father took a great many of his men and went to meet his father, and there came back a runner, saying, that all our people must come together. Then came another agent by the name of Spencer. Of course everybody said it was the Indians that killed them. We went up, and Oytes asked me many things. to the commanding officer, and said, "Colonel, I am here all alone with so many men, I am afraid. Their den was broken up, and shortly after this very gang had the audacity to put in a bill of damages against the government, because the commanding officer had their cabin torn down and moved away. He was a United States mail-contractor, and always had many cow-boys at his place over night. My grandpa said to his men,–, "Unsaddle your horses while I go and see my friend. You are all wearing the clothes that we fools thought belonged to us, and we don't want you to pay anything. The first thing he did was to tell us not to be afraid. A saw-mill and a grist-mill were there, and five more houses. I shall take that gun, and I shall kill myself. So they put their names to it, while it is only a report of the issues he has already made. He called him again and again, and at last was so angry he ran after him. Bannocks and overtake them if he could, but he only went a little way and camped. I told him what had been said. I will jump over about six years. All my kinsfolk went with us but one aunt and her children. They have seen their dear ones perish around them because their white brothers have given them neither love nor My uncles and brothers would not dare to say a word, for fear they would be shot down. After this, my people went away from Lovelocks. My grandpa came and took me in his arms and said to me, –, "Open your eyes, dear, and see your grandpa!" how glad my poor cousin was, for his brother, Frank Winnemucca, was at Yakima. ", I said, "What made you bad men run after us? Away we started over the hills and valleys. So we got ready very early one morning, for we wished to make it in one day. Brother Lee and Leggins were sent out to bring them back again. Women cried and blamed their husbands for going with the Bannocks; but Leggins and his band were told they were not going with the prisoners of war, and that he was not going at all. Then they all left the place. for shame! So father took everything he gave him, and the next morning, father, Egan, Oytes, and myself started for Camp Harney, to see the officer there. There were a great many there to see the boy. When your history is done, I will gladly aid you all in my power, though I have not much time to spare here. They said, –, "We were sent by the commanding officer from Camp McDermitt with a dispatch to the chief of the soldiers.". There was no wood, and the snow was waist-deep, and many died off just as cattle or horses do after travelling so long in the cold. On the twelfth we met a man on the summit, just before getting to a place called Fort Lyon, who told us there was the greatest Indian war that ever was known. Government gave. This is both an autobiographic memoir and history of the Paiute people during their first forty years of contact with European Americans. At last some one came that had a voice like an angel. Her name is everywhere and every one praises her. That is why I house, got his pistol, and came back and said, "Sarah, shall I shoot him? Oh, how glad my father was to see me! Hoping you will give this a careful consideration, I am, sir, very respectfully. "Four." You will get there before we shall. I lay awake, watching for fear he would die while I was asleep. I rode up to one camp and said, "Here, you are sleeping too much; get up. We had the little baby three months. On the morning of June 13th I got up very early and went down to the camp and had my breakfast, and then I called the Indians, and asked George to accompany me to Malheur Agency or to the whereabouts of the hostile Bannocks. I am quite sure there had been one agent before Mr. Parrish, and that he went to stealing too badly. With this word the woman went away. They say that all their ponies have been taken from them, and all their guns too, for something two of their men had done. Ten minutes passed, when he opened his eyes in his usual bright and beautiful way, and his first words were:–, "Son, where are you? ", So we did, and pretty soon we heard the prettiest noise we had ever heard in all our life-time. Then all the rest of the men said, "We will do the same as our chief, and what is left he can have." You should see how my people love each other. They are held in exile against their wills. Everybody is at the storehouse with their families." It came close to us and stopped. They met just where the railroad crosses Truckee River, now called Wadsworth, Nevada. My people said they thought the cave must be very deep or far into the mountain. These Indians knew the value of the furs. I fought my mother, – I bit her. IRVIN MCDOWELL., She managed to record the Native American … She called to me. Following the oral tradition of Native American people, she reaches out to readers with a deeply personal appeal for understanding. I will send the troops up.". Then, come, oh come, and dance and be happy with me!" Confira também os eBooks mais vendidos, lançamentos e livros digitais exclusivos. This is what the Big Father in Washington told me to tell you. Don't forget to tell them that all who behave well shall be properly fed. He looked round, but the man was gone. During this time, all the goods that were brought for us were sold to whoever had money. Say you will not go. CAMP ON FAYETTE RIVER, Sept. 5, 1878. We reached the camp late in the evening. Every one in the lodge whispered, "Oh, Sadie, you have come to save us! Veuillez réessayer. The following winter the man Lindsey came back with the express purpose of killing the Indian who reported him. We rode very hard all day long – did not stop to rest all that day. He came to me and said, "You and I are two black ones. Now we cease to be friends, and after the soldiers quit fighting with the Bannocks and with Oytes' men, we will make war with you for the wrong you have done us, if you do not return our women and girls whom you have taken as prisoners. ", Mother said, "You will see for yourself. "Oh, dear chieftain, they did not kill the white men, – indeed they did not. "I say, my dear children, every word we have told you was said to us. On Monday came men, women, and children, and they went to work to dig potatoes, and everything was put away for winter. The General's staff in the field consisted of Major Edwin C. Mason, 21st Infantry, Acting Assistant Inspector General; Captain Lawrence S. Babbitt, Ordnance Department Engineer and Ordnance Officer; Assistant Surgeon General, Perkins A. Fitzgerald, U. S. A., Chief Medical Officer in the field; First Lieut. I have suffered everything but death to come here with this paper. Here is Lewis's letter (corrected in orthography). You see they are already here in our land; here they are all Because white people are bad that is no reason why the soldiers should be bad, too.". Our white man took off his hat to show him we were not his enemies, but he got worse, and then I said, "Let us run after him, for he knows we are not Bannocks, for Bannock women don't ride side-ways nor do they wear riding-dresses." My brother told me a very funny story about the soldiers' doings at this place. My people there are willing to go to the old home in the fort, if the government should let them go, and will never to fight again. I told him all that Father Wilbur was doing to my people, and that I should try to go to Washington. He was kind to us. I have worked at everything while I was here. And I will also pay for part of the grain. I sent for Leggins and some of the head men, and went to his home. ", Egan said, "Yes, we will work. So we returned to the camp again. The father first peeped down, but could see nothing; then he went down and found his children lying on a little bed with their mouths tied up with rags. "I will see after supper," he said. I was not asleep, small as I was. They brought her to our tent. I never said a word more, and we did not sleep any more that night. The noise came nearer and nearer, until he breathed, and after he came to, he kept on crying. At this I went out. She said the same words as before. At last my people set it on fire; at the same time they cried out to them, "Will you give up and be like men, and not eat people like beasts? They have a good place up there. The commanding-officer, Major Cochrane, told Leggins he could camp wherever he liked. In 1868 many of my people were at Camp C. F. Smith, taking care of themselves, but under many difficulties, and very destitute. Six men keep back, for fear we will be followed.". Don't lecture now; go home and get your people on the reservation – get them located properly; and then, if you want to come back, write to us, and tell us you want to come back and lecture, and we will pay your way here and back again." What do you all think about it? Then the bugle sounded "Fire!" At the sound of the firing, he deployed his company, dismounted, and took a strong position, which was re-enforced by sending forward Company H, under Lieutenant Parnell, and Company L, under Lieutenant Shelton, and they extended the line to the right by pushing Company G, under Captain Bernard and Lieutenant Pitcher, up the side of the cañon to a projecting point which commanded and protected the trail and the bench of land upon which we had corralled our stock. To my great joy there came up two of our people. ", Then I asked him to write me a letter to take with me in case that my horses should give out and I should come to a ranch where I could get some horses. The next thing we found was a fiddle and I took it along with me. At last the bugle sounded "Halt!" ", My sister said, "There is no outlet to the house. She knew what our Chief Natchez was saying to us. I began to cry, because I did not want them burned. Brother Natchez and five other men went with us. I tell you, my dear sister, my captain was surprised when he saw me coming, for he had left me to be killed by the Bannocks. My poor mother, thinking he was dead, threw herself upon his bosom, but was aroused by the doctor's saying, "Hold on, – the spirit has not left the body." danger at hand. Oh, Major! he gave his clothes away after he got home, saying, "This is all I got from the Big Father in Washington. We are as happy as we can be." So we got to our people, and grandpa ran out to meet us. ", So we all started up to see our good Father Wilbur. I said, "You know best what to do." George said to me, "Sarah, let us not stop here, for they must be close by. ", "The Secretary of the Interior, Secretary Schurz. We had sent for her brother to come to us. I could not get along at all. Oh, tell me, what is he? I thought it was the most fearful thing I ever saw in my life. Our doctors never sing war-songs, except at a war-dance, as they never go themselves on the war-path. Then he took me out and told me that he would put him in the store-house and keep him there all night, and let him out in the morning. I knelt beside him, and took his dear old face in my hands, and looked at him quite a while. 4 PEARL STREET. I did not talk to him, but got up and went away until brother came back. He used to live in Canyon City, and have a store there." They came like a lion, yes, like a roaring lion, and have continued so ever since, and I have never forgotten their first coming. She said to her girl, –, "My child, you have no brother now, – no one to love I tell you the world is full of such people. Your brother was here awhile ago. I told her that Egan was murdered, and I saw it all, saw his head cut off, and saw him cut in pieces. said I. You can issue it to them. You can issue it, and give the names of each head of the families, and send them back here. He further says that Oytes and his six lodges (about one hundred people) are hostile, and should not be allowed to return. The agent told them they must pay it or he would take their wagons away. ", I said, "General Forsythe, if what I have told you is not They said almost all the tribe had died off, and if one of a family got sick it was a sure thing that the whole family would die. "You are our good teacher; don't you think our agent has treated me badly, and do you blame me for wanting to go away?" ", Other officers express a similar opinion to that of Gen. McDowell. So the soldiers came and took brother to San Francisco, Cal. So we started on the morning of the 8th of June. Don't let them take us away; take us back to our home!" We had travelled about fifty miles that day. When we came down, my mother said, "We will go outside. He wants me to stay here, not to go away. Every third load of hay is given. The name of the man in charge of When we had got over the river we looked back and saw Oytes coming. The chiefs do not live in idleness. We were all good friends, and our agent liked my people, and my people loved him. our men who were ahead, came back and said there were some of our white brothers' houses ahead of us. I did not stop to read it, but ran with it to the officers who were right across the street from where I was. I was told to tell my people that he had sent for clothes for them, and it was already at the Dalles. Write and tell me what kind of clothing you give, so that I can report that it has been issued to him." During that day one could see old women getting together talking over what they had heard my father say. We must do it or we will all be in trouble. "Yes," said the man behind me, "we are followed. Bernard had attacked the hostiles the morning before, Sunday at nine o'clock A.M., surprised and charged their camp, formed and recharged. He lived fat while he was there. Life Among the Piutes is Winnemucca's powerful legacy to both white and Paiute cultures. No sooner did I lie down and fall asleep, than my father called me and said, –, "Eat something." We saw a fresh track here and there. So, poor things, they must have suffered fearfully, for they all starved there. Is that where the Big Father wants me to go? I had so much of it for my sick Indians; it was here for that purpose, and I know my men don't drink; if I knew they did I would not have them stay here." After the issue, the things were all to be put into one place. "My dear daughters, we are told that you have seen yourselves in the hills and in the valleys, in full bloom. At last his groans died away. They are kindred to Winnemucca and his children Natchez and Sarah, who perilled their lives and were indefatigable in doing everything for the whites and the army. You got us all into trouble, and only for you we had been in our own country. ", We Indians always call our cousins brother and sister, ", Grandpa said, "I will go and get her. My brother said, –. At one time they said my people killed a little child. the night came at last. ", Brother said, "If you are discovered, how will you get out? Every night I imagined I could see the thing called President. After they went away, grandpa would come in with his rag She said, "Come on. My husband said, "Give it to him yourself." I know all our people will say we are working against them and are getting money for all this.". ", Then he said, "You can go after the camp-meeting is over.". He would not say, and I would not tell him until he said he knew why. Their case is fully set forth in the accompanying papers," and he says in a marginal note in his own handwriting, that these "accompanying papers he alludes to were left out of the printed report, no reason being given." He is at Fort Boise, and I will see what he says about it. He was a better one than we had ever had. If you say so, I will go to-night and get there some time during the night. Sure enough, there were eight of them this night. Issuing day came. He thought I was good for it; that is, I would get paid for my work and pay him. The scouts, numbering about eight, were a short distance ahead of us, who were in the advance guard. It became dark before we got to the town, but we could see something like stars away ahead of us. Some one came in the night and killed them both, and after they had shot them with guns or pistols, they placed arrows in the wounds to make it appear as if Indians had killed them. If he lassoed me she was to jump off her horse and cut the rope, and if he lassoed her I was to do the same. My people began to say to one another, "We know him, then." Bannock and Piute campaign, 1878. poison him." If they did not they would all suffer for it. ", One of them gave me a field-glass and told me to look. I have come to show you how to work, and work we must. Was I not turned over to you as an interpreter for my people? He was one of the best Indian men Mr. Parrish had to work for him. We know our sister can write on paper to our good father in Washington if she will.". Some of the interpreters are very ignorant, and don't understand English enough to know all that is said. Our white brothers are a mighty nation, and have more wonderful things than that. Our father, Parrish, went on talking, and said: "All my people say that you won't work; but I will show them that you can work as well as anybody, and if you go on as we have started, maybe the Big Father at Washington will now give us a mill to grind our corn. There are six horses and two mules that work for you, and if it is a hard winter you can feed your ponies, too. She told him all, and said the little boy's ear was swelling badly, and it was black and the boy would not speak. That was the first I ever tasted. I will go and see him, anyhow. We had gone the day before and thought no one was left behind, and I said to Lieutenant Wilkinson, –, "I am so tired! Après avoir consulté un produit, regardez ici pour revenir simplement sur les pages qui vous intéressent. He was not gone long, and when he came back he brought some hard bread which they gave him. ", "Well, Egan, that is what he told me to tell you and Oytes. It snowed all day long. They had a great many cattle on the reservation at the time. They said, "Oh, it is too bad that he went off this morning; you and he might be the means of saving us. She said her people were going right to Umatilla Reservation, and as the Umatilla Indians had told Oytes they would help them to fight the white people, this was why they were going there. The saddest day hath gleams of light, I am not going into their private life, because I am not to condemn any one. You are the cause of all our suffering. We passed them, and they followed us, and as we came near to the encampment, every man, woman, and child were out looking for us. to go for my poor, sick-hearted people. Almost all the men had beautiful blue overcoats; they looked like a company of soldiers, but we had not been with these civilized people long before they had won all my people's clothes from them. Life Among The Piutes: Their Wrongs And Claims (Vintage West Series) - Kindle edition by Winnemucca Hopkins, Sarah, Catherine S. Fowler. My last appointment was given me at Washington in 1879. One of the men said, "Did you see them?" Grandpa had gone off during our meeting with father, and prayer was offered, and every one washed their face, and were waiting for something else. Mother held on to him until he gave some signs of letting her sons go with her; then he nodded his head, – they might go. The school stopped at this time. I will go and see if I can get him. She leaves me and goes with big girls to play;" and then my mother wanted to know if I would give my pretty beads for the little sister. "Yes," I said, "you look poorly indeed. Late in the fall he was taken up by the Odd Fellows and carried to Walla-Walla, Washington Territory. ", "We will send enough to make your people one hundred tents. oh my! During this time I received the five hundred dollars, which I dearly earned during the Bannock war, after working two years for it. We will raise a little something this summer. After he had shown him all our gardens, he took him to our store-house, told him all the goods were to be issued right away. That night General Howard asked me if I would go to the agency to ascertain if some of the flying Indians had not put in an appearance there, about twenty miles down the cañon. It was coffee that we called hot water. They thought we had come to tell something against our agent, for they were the same officers that had the other agent sent away. You have all heard what your chief has said. I know you will come and say: Here, Indians, go away; I want these rocks to make me a beautiful home with! We were obliged to fight our white brothers at one time. He gave me the last letter he received from Lewis, which I herewith enclose, and which he wishes returned to him when you shall have finished with it. Then he brings home the hide, and his father cuts it into a long coil which is wound into a loop, and the boy takes his quiver and throws it on his back as if he was going on a hunt, and takes his bow and arrows in his hand. It may be in another man's name sometimes, but it is all the same. In my way of thinking and in my father's way of thinking, no man ought to kill anything unless it is good to eat. I said, "Come with me, "and went for the doctor. They all laughed again and went to their camps. Egan said, "No; the white people hate us; he might Two of the men told how they got the Washoe arrows and placed them in the wounds, as if the Indians had killed them. ", I said, "Yes, I have come to save you all if you will do as I wish you to and be quiet about it. What I have told you is true, and if you don't like what the government wants you to do, well and good; if I had it my way I could help you, but I cannot. Cart All. Here I tried again to sell my horse, but could not. His name was Truckee John. I put my head in his bosom, and would not look up for a long time. I have the original in my possession now. During the time my grandfather was away in California, where he staid till after the Mexican war, there was a girl-baby born in our family. Oh, I was very, very sick; my poor mother thought I would die. Rope is too good to hang her with." Impossible d'ajouter l'article à votre liste. My brother said, –, "You, Great Father of the Mighty Nation, my people have all heard of you. I don't care for myself, but my men want their pay, and they will go on with their work just the same. The first work that my people did on the reservation was to dig a ditch, to put up a grist-mill and saw-mill. Over the rocks and down the hill we went without stopping, and got to the agency at six o'clock. I put the whip to my horse, and away I went to where the Gatling gun was placed. along the river, and we must let our brothers live with us. As we came nearer to them I said to George, "Call to them." I was now all alone, as my father left the next day after Mr. Parrish went away. The whole tribe have called me their father, and I have loved you all as my dear children, and those who have died are happy in the Spirit-land, though we mourn their loss here on earth. It was a white woman and her children. ", Poor Mattie was the first to speak. I said, "What! ", One of the men belonging to Oytes, said, "We will work; let this man go." That same fall, very late, the emigrants kept coming. I walked into the office. The report says these mills were sold for the benefit of the Indians who were to be paid in lumber for houses, General Howard and General McDowell are my best soldier-fathers; yet they could not give me money enough to take up arms against any tribe of Indians. He told his Christian and civilized Indians, but none of them came to tell us where our horses were. He was not married at the time, but he very soon learned that there was money to be made, so he went back and got married. There we met some of our people, and they told us some very bad news, indeed, which made us all cry. I do not know. They had him all wrapped up, and said they did not want anybody to see him. Next morning about ten o'clock, a great many of our people came. SIR, – Acknowledging receipt of your letter of 22d inst., inclosing copy of telegram from Gen. 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