A Century of Dishonor: A Sketch of the United States Government's Dealings with Some of the Indian Tribes |
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Page 55
... settlers . In the following year their agent writes thus of the results which have followed the opening of this large tract to white settlers : " The Indians have experienced enough to shake their confidence in the laws which govern the ...
... settlers . In the following year their agent writes thus of the results which have followed the opening of this large tract to white settlers : " The Indians have experienced enough to shake their confidence in the laws which govern the ...
Page 58
... settlers in Kansas were beginning to be clearly in opposition to the in- terests of the Indians . Circumscribed as they are , and closely surrounded by white settlements , I can see nothing in the future for them but destruction ...
... settlers in Kansas were beginning to be clearly in opposition to the in- terests of the Indians . Circumscribed as they are , and closely surrounded by white settlements , I can see nothing in the future for them but destruction ...
Page 59
... settlers in Kansas , petitioned the United States Gov- ernment to permit them to take eight hundred dollars of their annuity funds to pay the expense of sending a delegation of their chiefs to the Rocky Mountains , to see if they could ...
... settlers in Kansas , petitioned the United States Gov- ernment to permit them to take eight hundred dollars of their annuity funds to pay the expense of sending a delegation of their chiefs to the Rocky Mountains , to see if they could ...
Page 61
... settlers cannot interfere with them . " Intermingled as the Kansas reservations are with the pub- lic lands , and surrounded in most cases by white settlers who too often act on the principle that an Indian has no rights that a white ...
... settlers cannot interfere with them . " Intermingled as the Kansas reservations are with the pub- lic lands , and surrounded in most cases by white settlers who too often act on the principle that an Indian has no rights that a white ...
Page 65
... settlers could not interfere with them , " enemies lie in wait for them , as of old , to rob and destroy ; even here the Government is , as before , unable to pro- tect them ; and in all probability , the tragedies of 1866 and 1867 will ...
... settlers could not interfere with them , " enemies lie in wait for them , as of old , to rob and destroy ; even here the Government is , as before , unable to pro- tect them ; and in all probability , the tragedies of 1866 and 1867 will ...
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