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entered into is celebrated by many and valuable presents 

 to the Indians. In but one single instance that I know 

 of have the Indians been required to give up the stolen 

 stock, and even on that occasion only a part was actually 

 returned. 



At the very moment of writing this several white 

 women are prisoners in the hands of the Indians, under- 

 going all the hardships and outrages which those words 

 imply, scarcely an effort for their relief being made by a 

 Bureau which finds it more to its convenience and profit to 

 preach humanity in the East than to do right in the West. 1 



The honour of one true woman is worth more than 

 all the Indians on the plains ; yet rapes, murders, and 

 pillages go on year after year, simply ' because there is 

 money in it.' 



After the almost complete impoverishment of the 

 Arrapahoe tribe, heretofore spoken of, I had an interview 

 with a prominent chief, who in the most solemn manner, 

 almost with tears in his eyes, assured me that his people 

 could not live the next year but by going to war. They 

 wanted to live in peace ; but they were too poor to live 

 in peace, and they relied upon the stealings of the summer, 

 and the gifts they would receive for making peace, for 

 means to start again in a condition of comfortable inde- 

 pendence. 



In October 1874 I took a small party of English 

 people on a hunt from Sydney Barracks on the Union 

 Pacific Eailroad. On the second day we came upon a 

 mixed band of Sioux and Cheyennes, numbering about 



1 After almost superhuman efforts "by the troops two of the girls were 

 recovered on February 25, 1875. When restored to freedom and civilisation, 

 one was seventeen, the other hut eleven years of age ; yet both had been sul> 

 jected to ' indescribable indignities and beastly outrages by nearly all the 

 male Indians ' from the 10th of September, 1874, to February 1875. The 

 Indians who murdered their parents, brothers, and sisters, and outraged 

 them, are all known, but, instead of being pimished, they are now * good 

 Indians, living on a reservation, fed, petted, and coddled.' The case here 

 referred to is that of the Germain girls. 



