The Democratic pioneer. [volume] (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1845-1853, 1847-01-22
From the Cincinnati Enquirer.
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i dian Affairs has been upon our table 70
y some days and we have an xionsly desired
r an opportunity TO notice fully it's contents
This important Bureau is under the care
of Col William Medill of this State, ant
long and favorably known in our State an
; mails, as a member Of our Legislature and
: Delegate representing the Fairfield dis
trict in Congress. Col. MeafVl is u man
} CT a high order OF talents, great prudence
! and untiring industry. His management
! of the complicated and dikichlt affairs o
the Indian Bureau, has been attended
with very great and bens6cial results. I,
is sufficient to mention Of these the set.
Element of the Cherokee troubles, which
for years had caused disquietude and blood
shed among thai interesting people. This
settlement, we have reason 10 know, was
brought about, to a great extent, by the
exertions and conciliatory manners OF
Col. Medl'.
We fnd an abstrac, ofthis Report in the
New York Globe, which though il gives
whole, and of the management Of the Blu
reau, is all for which al the present we
are able to find room
Indian .9fairs.-From The Report of the
Commissioner of Indian Affairs, made on
the 30th November, we learn that during
the past year. treaties have been made
with the Kasnsias Indians; the kindred
bands ofCbippewas, Ottowas and Potta-
watomies; the Cherokees; the Camancbe,
and nins other tribes and their associate
bands uf The Wild Indians Of the sou Invest
ern prairies; and with the Winnebagoes.
BY the treaty with the Kansas, two mil
lions Of acres in the eastern portion OF
their country were purchased, of which
five hundred and seventy.six thousand
acres are set apart for the future home Of
tire Chippewas, Ottowas and Pot,awato-
mics.
The treaty with the Cherokees' which
vas made with the representatives Of the
,nree parties into which those people have
for some years been divided and between
whom, as is we'll known, the most unfor-
tunate differences have existed SO far ap
pears to have been productive ofihe hap,
piest effects.
BY the treaty with the Chippewas, OF
tawas and Pouawatomies. they sold to the
government their two separate reserva
tions-one in Ohio, the other on the Usage
river, west Of the State of Missonri-con
tanning together about 6 millions Of acres;
and they agreed to move within two years
after The ratification Of the treaty TO their
new home in the Kansas country.
The treaty with the Camanche and 9TH
er wild Indians Of the prares, provides
for good understanding between them
and our government and citizens, and the
friendly Indians on our borders; and for
the manner Of conducting our relations
with them.
The treaty with the Winnebagoes, il
ratified, will secure to the government all
the remaining ianda- ef those Indians III
Iowa, which, including those the posses
sed, the right to use as hunting grounds,
are estimated at about four millions of
acres, most of il OF excellent quality.
The Choctaws are manifes,ing a most
zeal in the advauceme nj OF
have set apart and
agreed to apply $4,000 of their annuity
money in addition TO the So, 800 expressly
provided by treaty, and $4,000 furnished
from the civilization fund, TO the ednca
lion of their youth. They have already
among them three academi es, besides sew
eral small schools for boys, and no less
han FIVE semi0aries for the instruction OF
emales, all of which have been placed
Inder the immediate charge aud manage
,fthe Presby ierian, Baptist and Methodist
churches. All these schools are cond ucted
IN the principle alluded to, combining ,
etters with manual labor, aud are shown
o be in a most fourishing condition. The
arms cultivated by the boys are said to
ave produced suti cient corn the past year ;
or the consumption of the schools. The
emales are taught sewing, knitting, orna, |
ne al needle ork, aud the various du.
les Of the household and dairy, in addition !
o the usual and ordinary branches Of
20 nmon school education. ,
Arrangements are in progress to estab-
ish two manual labor schools among the
Creeks, and one among the Cbickasaws,
yho have set apar, and appropriated, by
IN act Of their council, the sum of ak
thousand dollars, to be annually applied
% its support. Arrangements were also
made, some time since, for the establish>
nent of manual labor school among the {
Osages.
Those which have alre ady been sstab-
ished in the Indian country afford abun>
liant evidence Of the advantage Of the sys
em, and its superiority over any ether