UNCOMFORTABLE IMMIGRANTS FOR CANADA.

New Zealand Times, Volume XXXIII, Issue 5287, 6 March 1878, Page 3

UNCOMFORTABLE IMMIGRANTS FOR CANADA.

A general migration of the Sioux Ind an from'the United States to Canada is .< ntoipated, the camp of Sitting Bull being - cout nually reinforced by accessions of Sioux from Montana and Dakota. Sixty lodges of them came over in the,middle of last month. It seems that after, the battle with General Custer on the Little Big Horn River in 1876 the camp divided, Sitting Bull going north, and Crazy Horse to the Platte, an I thence towards the Spotted Tail agency. Crazy Horse’s followers stayed there until the death of that chief, before which event they allege that the United States Government attempted to disarm and dismount them. . Many, however, concealed their arms, and others did not go quite into the agency, but remained in camps some distance away. The late arrivals at Sitting Bull’s camp state that when Crazy Horse was dying he addressed them as follows:—“I have always wanted to go to the land of the white mother, but my father persuaded me to stay here. I shall be dead in a few minutes, and will then go in the white mother's country. I want you all to follow me ; you see the Americans want to kill us. There is no peace for you in this country—you can live no longer with the Great Father. If you want to live and raise up your families, y.»n must go with me to the land of the white mother, and the home of our grandfathers.” These dying words of Crazy Horse roused the whole nation, and they resolved to move north. Those who have already joined Sitting Bull in Canada are under the command of nine chiefs, and were forty-eight days on the journey. On the twentieth day a scout overtook them, and told them that unless they turned back they would be overhauled by the Unites! States’ troops. They assured the scout that they would immediately return; but when he was well out of sight they packed up and started north again as fast as they could travel.