The Indian QuestionJ.R. Osgood, 1874 - 268 pages |
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Page 5 - That hereafter no Indian nation or tribe within the territory of the United States shall be acknowledged or recognized as an independent nation, tribe, or power with whom the United States may contract by treaty...
Page 35 - There is no question of national dignity, be it remembered, involved in the treatment of savages by a civilized power. With wild men, as with wild beasts, the question whether in a given situation one shall fight, coax, or run, is a question merely of what is easiest and safest.
Page 11 - Except only in the case of the Sioux Indians in Minnesota, after the outbreak of 1862, the Government has never extinguished an Indian title as by right of conquest; and in this case the Indians were provided with another reservation, and subsequently were paid the net proceeds arising from the sale of the land vacated.
Page 125 - ... we think it too firmly and clearly established to admit of dispute, that the Indian tribes residing within the territorial limits of the United States are subject to their authority...
Page 149 - ... about 32,500 ; in Nebraska, Kansas, and the Indian Territory, 70,650 ; in the Territories of Dakota, Montana, Wyoming, and Idaho, 65,000 ; in Nevada and the Territories of Colorado, New Mexico, Utah, and Arizona, 84,000 ; and on the Pacific slope, 48,000." Of these, 130,000 are self-supporting on their own reservations, " receiving nothing from the Government except interest on their own moneys, or annuities granted them in consideration of the cession of their lands to the United States...
Page 173 - Congress, with a view of having all business matters between these Indians and the Government settled, by removing such of them west as now desire to go, and paying those who decline to remove the per capita fund referred to. The Government has no agent residing with these Indians. In accordance with their earnestly expressed desire to be brought under the immediate charge of the Government, as its wards...
Page 42 - Fleeing women, holding up their hands and praying for mercy, were brutally shot down; infants were killed and scalped in derision; men were tortured and mutilated in a manner that would put to shame the savage ingenuity of interior Africa. No one will be astonished that a war ensued which cost the government thirty million dollars, and carried conflagration and death to the border settlements. During the spring and summer of 1865 no less then eight thousand troops were withdrawn from the effective...
Page 17 - What shall be done with him as a dependent and pensioner on our civilization, when, and so far as, he ceases to oppose or obstruct the extension of railways and of settlement? THE INDIAN POLICY The Indian policy, so called, of the Government, is a policy, and it is not a policy, or rather it consists of two policies, entirely distinct, seeming, indeed, to be mutually inconsistent and to reflect each upon the...
Page 191 - ... acres for each member of each of said tribes thus to be settled ; the boundaries of each of said districts to be distinctly marked, and the land conveyed in fee-simple to each of said tribes to be held in common or by their members in severalty as the United States may decide.
Page 10 - United States has pursued a uniform course of extinguishing the Indian title only with the consent of those tribes which were recognized as having claim to the soil by reason of occupancy, such consent being expressed in treaties. * * * Except only in the case of the Sioux Indians in Minnesota, after the outbreak of...