"Sitting Bull's Complaint" joke

WARNING: The following contains psuedo-Native-American speech. If this would offend you, don't go on.
jhm Unkindest Cut Anonymous (1890)
After nearly three decades of out-maneuvering the best that the U. S. Army could send into the field, Sitting Bull was caught and held at the Red Cloud agency, where he was interviesed by the Quaker Indian Commissioners. They wanted to know if the old Sioux warrior had any special grievance to report to them?
Sitting Bull noded grimly. "A white man has lied about me," he said. "He lied and put in newspaper for all to read."
"Who was it?" asked the Commissioners.
"Indian don't know name. But Indian been told what man write in newspaper. Indian sensitive man. He no like being lied about," and here he gave vent to an accomplished burst of bi-lingual profanity.
"But what did the man write about you, Chief?"
"If Indian ever find him, he'll scalp the son-bitch say Sitting Bull graduated at West Point." Quoted in: Aswell, James R. (Ed), "Native American Humor." New York: Harper & Brothers Publishers, 1947. (Pg. 382)

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