arrest of Too-hool-bool-suit was wrong, but we will not rescnt the insult. We were invited to this council to express our hearts, and we have doue so,"

If such and so swift penalty were the law of our land, especially iu the District of Columbia, it would be "no just cause of complaint" when Indians suffcr But considering the frequency, length, and safety of "ti- rades" in all parts of America, it seems as this, for "tirades" in council, it. unjust However, they do come under the not to permit Indians to deliver them. head of "spontaneous productions of the soil;" and an Indian on a reservation is "invested with no such proprictorship" in anything which comes under that head.^[1]

Chief Joseph and his band consented to move says "I said in my heart that, rather than have war, I would give up my coantry. I would give up my father's grave. I would give up everything rather than have the blood of white men upon the hands of my people."

It was not easy for Joseph to bring bis people to consent to move. The young men wished to at this time, Chief Joseph rode one with a revolver in each hand, saying he would shoot the first one of his warriors that resisted the Government. Finally, they gathered al the stock they could find, and began the move. storm came, and raised the river so high that some of the cattle conld not be taken across. Indian guards were put in charge Chief Joseph fight. It has been told that, day through his village, A Wite en attacked these gnards of the cattle left bebind. and took the cattle. After this Joseph could no his men, and the warfare began, which lasted over two months It was a masterly campaign on the part of the Indians. They were followed by Gencral Howard; they had General Crook on their right, and General Miles in front, but they were not once hemmed in; and, at last, when they surrendered at Bear

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