Speaker 1: Another Robberty Callahan's story of historic Indian trails old.
Speaker 2: By the Old kaffir.
Speaker 3: Well Post.
Speaker 1: The present state of Minnesota was an Indian territory in
Speaker 1: eighteen forty nine.
Speaker 3: Two years later, however.
Speaker 1: Under promise of protection, the Indians were induced to sign
Speaker 1: a treaty by which they gave the government thirty million
Speaker 1: atres of Fieod and Polis. Immediately, white people began moving in,
Speaker 1: clearing land and building homes against the wishes of the Indians.
Speaker 1: One ninety year later, new settlers app ear. A few Indians,
Speaker 1: including Little Crow, the renowned high chief of that nation,
Speaker 1: had attended the log made church where they went to
Speaker 1: hear Robert Bob Williams. And now as the service concludes,
Speaker 1: we see the members of the church filing out the
Speaker 1: front door, and we hear the old origin.
Speaker 2: I can't understand what little Klow was doing here. I
Speaker 2: think the chief is about to get religion. Religion.
Speaker 1: He that darling is up.
Speaker 3: For some mister Well.
Speaker 2: He suddenly gave mister Mike an awful look.
Speaker 1: Well, it does seem kind of strange.
Speaker 4: Little Crow has been in peace with everybody around here,
Speaker 4: but he don't look the same to day.
Speaker 5: I have a feeling old mouth.
Speaker 3: That shock trader made little Crow mad about something.
Speaker 2: Well, what did you do? The darling and brought of
Speaker 2: people all that's your country. But remember, mister harn, the
Speaker 2: government offered the finish the Indians food and.
Speaker 3: Clothing when they needed this country to white people.
Speaker 2: Well, although no Mark didn't give that red double any
Speaker 2: food enough.
Speaker 3: Little Cloe is shaking hands with the preacher. He was
Speaker 3: kind of strange, folks. Uh.
Speaker 1: Little Crow was tired in a black frock coat, white
Speaker 1: color and dark crevat. His deep dark eyes and long
Speaker 1: black braids were like ebony. As he went forward, shook hands,
Speaker 1: complimented the minister, then turned and stowed out. Mounting his horse,
Speaker 1: he rode away. But the next day we find the
Speaker 1: Indian chief ending marriage trading post near the Indian Agency.
Speaker 1: I am, I am little Crow, chief of my tribe.
Speaker 3: How are you? Huh? No? Good?
Speaker 2: Well? Why are you watch this time?
Speaker 3: Why? People hungry?
Speaker 2: Well? What about it?
Speaker 3: No? A winter soon comes. My people cold hungry.
Speaker 5: We have no clothing for the Indians, and what grosses
Speaker 5: we have, we're using them for our soldiers.
Speaker 3: But men do the treaty, say my people get me
Speaker 3: bread blankets.
Speaker 2: How do you know what the treaty said?
Speaker 3: It is ten years old, Indian, never forget my people hungry?
Speaker 2: Yes, and our soldiers down south feel the same way.
Speaker 3: But white pey Indian, no make sill, lord.
Speaker 2: It's not your fight. And what's more, how did you
Speaker 2: live before soldiers came out here.
Speaker 1: To protect your people? Protect them? My people, h White
Speaker 1: the man make pets Indian? Keep them? Well, why don't
Speaker 1: they go out and find a buffalo? He he's kilo
Speaker 1: buffalo and laugh My people hungry?
Speaker 2: Well, if the red devils are hungry, let them eat grass.
Speaker 2: You understand grass. Grass is good enough for an engine.
Speaker 2: Now get out of her and stay out.
Speaker 3: Eat the grass you make him?
Speaker 1: My people eat grass?
Speaker 2: How can you be so cruel? I've got no use
Speaker 2: for these lazy red devil Indians. But they're hungry and
Speaker 2: they have a heartened.
Speaker 5: Food to Nobody asked you to tell me how to
Speaker 5: run the store. If you are such an Indian lover,
Speaker 5: go feed the red doubles yourself. They don't get a
Speaker 5: drive ban from me. Oh you're terrible.
Speaker 2: I'm afraid you're going to make trouble for the settlers.
Speaker 1: Well, you know, folks, that same night in marriage trading post,
Speaker 1: four white farmers and their families, Saturday birthdays, Hapaday Wolf
Speaker 1: enjoying a turkey feat. And of course I didn't think
Speaker 1: much about what might happen, what would happen?
Speaker 5: Well, it's come out, not not look about.
Speaker 4: Oh football, football, my friends.
Speaker 1: Was the night of fire, eating arrows and flashing tomahawks.
Speaker 1: Marie was tortured, dropped in his store, his mouth stuffed
Speaker 1: with dead grass, forty one arrows in his body.
Speaker 2: Government warehouses.
Speaker 3: I got it.
Speaker 1: Over two hundred white settlers near big Stone Lake, one
Speaker 1: hundred Brown County.
Speaker 2: And Oval, seven hundred iron men were dead. Then Colonel
Speaker 2: Sibley took command.
Speaker 3: But as one thousand.
Speaker 1: Soldiers emerged from Fort Ridgley, Deep Little Crow aslided, big
Speaker 1: white pony and deject and fluttering thousand buckskins, rode right
Speaker 1: up to the front gate of the fort. One hundred
Speaker 1: shots did not cut that Indian down, and Little Cow
Speaker 1: carried on a plan that left the horrible scene of
Speaker 1: cripple dead and dying on every Indian term was let
Speaker 1: them eat glass. Every government man in Minnesota was gone
Speaker 1: into the conflict. Three hundred Indians of Cot tried and
Speaker 1: condemned to death, but President Lincoln commuted the death sentence
Speaker 1: for Minny. Then on December the twenty eighth, that man Cato, Minnesota.
Speaker 1: Thirty nine Indians, tied with chain and card, a white
Speaker 1: coal cap on each man's head, braving the trigger of death,
Speaker 1: shanded and joked with each other. One half breed who
Speaker 1: had been given us cigars puff he laughed. Then he said,
Speaker 1: we were cheated, rob hungry, Go ahead, cut them off.
Speaker 1: We're ready to heat our god ho. When Major Brown
Speaker 1: did cut the rope, two women painted a scaffold tall
Speaker 1: and hadn't know that one who platform surrounded by a
Speaker 1: Jewish heaping crowd. Thirty nine Indians went down at the
Speaker 1: same moment, but willing crow was still at large.
Speaker 3: Your leader. However, a tottering young boy.
Speaker 1: Was found and brought to the army for it or
Speaker 1: in the presence of the lieutenant, the captain and his daughter,
Speaker 1: we find a huge scene.
Speaker 3: Who I then, boy, Captain?
Speaker 2: Where did you find him? Up in the wood? Sir?
Speaker 2: Does he speak English? But here's buying captain man, take
Speaker 2: him away?
Speaker 1: Child?
Speaker 3: Who wait?
Speaker 2: I think he wants to say something?
Speaker 1: Yes, the home turn William Crowe talk about the three
Speaker 1: of these. One day he's really no one, no home,
Speaker 1: cool little food. We go a long time, we go,
Speaker 1: We pick berries and we sing. We play What a
Speaker 1: white man who teach little tap Wood to speak English?
Speaker 1: Him shoot, little crow, him back, little crow fall water
Speaker 1: water water him hot his throat, Then little pappool stee
Speaker 1: one and look back in the cur of say ready Indian.
Speaker 3: Each crash, each crash, some day pay pasts, little pains.
Speaker 6: Then the little crow, my you, my father, him fall
Speaker 6: both him go, him dead, and you Ma's going home
Speaker 6: with me.
Speaker 1: To be happy.
Speaker 3: It's to be happy.
Speaker 1: It's to a new world. And once each year will
Speaker 1: come back to ten songs on the grave of a
Speaker 1: little Crow.
Speaker 3: And my friends in.
Speaker 6: Your story of the Minnesota Massacre.
Speaker 1: Ensuing episodes will embrace stories of ancients that embrace stories
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Speaker 1: of kindness, courage, your thought, and life in the great outdoors.
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Speaker 1: Tell stories which help to teach the value of kindness,
Speaker 1: courage for thought, and life in the great outdoors.
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