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Father, we are a small nation, and these that are with me here have been selected to come and see you, and to do whatever is most for the good of the children of the Long Beaked Bird. We live a great way off, many days travel from here, and we have but little to do with the whites, but we are willing to be at peace with them. We believe it would be for the good of all to be at peace and have no more war...the sun and the moon and the earth are witnesses of the truth, and all that I have promised here will be fulfilled.
Crow leader at the Treaty of Horse Creek
The young
but formidable war chief chosen by the Mountain and River Crow to
represent the tribes at the Treaty of Horse Creek on the North
Platte River in September, 1851. Big Robber's speech to the
council the day after the Crow arrived made for a turning point in
the negotiations with the Sioux. The Crow were willing to
accept boundaries to their homelands, and to select a single chief
to speak for all of them. This forced the hand of the Sioux
and other tribes who were resisting actual boundaries and the
condition that they pick a single spokesperson for their people. (Click here for
more on the Crow)
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