Bare Bones Crazy Horse Speaks
December 27, 1995
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Vice President for Research and Governmental and Industrial Relations
WICHITA STATE UNIVERSITY, 1845 N. Fairmount, Wichita, KS 67260-0001
Re: Current status of the paper chief's decision
Dear XXXX:
At our first meeting of the council chiefs on Monday August 7, 1995, the great white father made big talk and spoke of the need to hurry to get the stadium fixed. He asked the council chiefs to use their best medicine and to touch the pen to the big paper chief's paper within two moons. One of the council chiefs asked, quietly so as to not offend the big paper chief, whether it might be so that an additional moon could be used. But the big paper chief talked strongly that two moons was wanted, so that his ongoing war plans would not be delayed. The little council chiefs then diligently applied their best medicine, but ey-ee, they could not accomplish the great paper chief's work until three moons had passed, at the start of the moon of falling leaves.
But then a strange and mysterious thing happened -- for two moons the great white father lost his tongue, and was nowhere to be heard. Ey-ee, it seems the big talk by the paper chief amounted to no more than the little wind walking on a hilltop in the dog days of the moon of brown grass, or a coyotes howl in the night.
How can this be so said most of the little council chiefs, when the big council chief had confirmed the great paper chief's wisdom and urgings for the war plans asked for, saying that they were holding up other war plans for the big round house to the west? But then Crazy Horse, war leader of the Hunkpatila Oglala Teton Sioux, spoke to say that when the big council chief was making the paper for the great white father, the great white father required that the pay money be obtained both from the whole tribe, and from those willing to put their mark on the stick. Crazy Horse objected, and in his best white man's words said:
"However, in the absence of the availability of private contributions, public mill levy funds should be used for the total renovation cost. And, the availability of any private contributions, should not delay the renovation project." But the great paper chief's council chief cried Ahh-h, and said:
"To expedite the maintenance and repair required, the president should initiate a plan to secure Wichita Public Building Commission support for a bond issue to finance the renovation costs guaranteed by the W.S.U. mill levy funds. Any gift income raised for this purpose should be used to offset mill levy requirements." So, based upon the talk of the big council chief, that there would be no delay with the war plans based upon attempts to have individual warriors mark the stick, the other council chiefs touched the pen on the paper.
So it was that Crazy Horse's vision, made from a high point, a place that looked far over a country stretching away in the sun, just above where the council chiefs had been called around the council fires for the great white father's paper, came true. The great paper chief now takes the words he had his big council chief place on the paper, with the other council chiefs to touch the pen, and twist them like the great war wind which rips the earth and no great warrior can stand against, so as to delay the war plans in an attempt to find warriors to mark the stick. All this the great white father does in bad faith and not in keeping with his promises. It will not be enough for him to speak words of wisdom in the future, if the council chiefs have no ears to hear him or hearts to make them strong against the power of his enemies.
Hoka hey! The coyote is pleased to snap at the heels of the wolf when he can. Perhaps it is a good day to have a vision and make big medicine, and a good day to gather up the arrows, and to sharpen up the knives for war.
Any smoke signals on the back trail to the contrary notwithstanding, will be looked for with the keen eyes of the eagle.
Crazy Horse
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