The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1854-12-07

assented to- and resolution ueauimousy adopted or
no eoun.snsnoe be given BY s.y Of The departments
Washington to the Aforesaid pretended csins or any
other Of Ike character"
with which II will be necessary have conventions
II an early day and it is also very important that
engagements be made as soon as practicable with the
Pawnee and Poncah Indians Of Nebraska by which their
lmit may be restricted and defined and their assaults
upon emgrants, and their hostile excursions against
other tribes, terminated,
has taken place during the year 10 the moral
condition Of the Indian tribes; while the uausuai and
proracted drought that has prevailed in that region OF
country has caused in many instances an almost total
failure OF the crops Of Of those who have heretofore
attempted TO cultivate the soil.
Some Of the tribes will have sufficient to supply
their neccsses and to guard against inevitable suffer
ing and want has been determined to retain portion
OF the annuites Of the present year. due TO such as are
destitute provisions and thus afford then the
to procure food during the approaching winter
and spring.
and others Of the Upper Missouri ageacy, who are
parties to the treaty Of Fort Larmie received their
nua presents and annuity goods with great satiafac'
tion. The Arckaras, Mandans and eros Ventrees in
formed the agent that he might in future dispense with
any further supply Of corn, rs they had raised enough
for their besides quantity to sell The ropid
dispersion of the buffalo, and other alluded 10 in
the report of the agent require that such action be
taken at will lay 70 undaton for the future
support of these people.
The discomfort of some of the bands on the Upper
Missouri and the attempts Of those who committed the
Fort larime, alluded to elsewhere, 10 en-
list all the Indians Of that region to join them in gene
raj the whtes--for details Of which you
ferred to the report OF the agentare in judgment
sufficient TO require prompt action and such military
defepces will be sufficient to protect those who
travel over the plains next spring.
The Omoha, Ottqe and Missouri. and the Pawnee
tribes embrace the Indians in the Council Bluff Agen
cy Through the neglect OF their former agent and the
delay necessarily occasoned by his rejection by the
Senate, and the appointment and qualification Of a
successor these Indians have had but little attention
during tue past The Omohas and Pawnees have
II is understood raised and gathered less than
rage crop Of corn; but the Otoes and Mssouris are
without food for the winter and all of them nearly
destitute of clothing. When recently in Nebraska,
directed the agent to make provision for the necessary
wants of the Umohas and Ottoes and Missouris, and
to proceed at with parties OF each, 10 select the
reservations provided for in the recent treaties that
these Indians may be removed early in the spring. BY
the treaty with the Omohas, it is stipulated that the
United States will protect them in their home from
the assaults Of the Sioux and other hostile tribes
Without this protection they will not, and indeed
ought not, to remove, and the military post before al
luded to should be located with reference to such pro-
lection.
The Indians Of the Great Nemaha agency, comprising
the acs and Foxes OF Missouri land the I0was and kcka
apooes will with the partial crops raised them and the
portion Of their annuties withheld to meet their
Stiles get along without any serious inconvenience II
is gratifying to know that of the Indians of this
agency impressed with the necessity of exertng
themselves to change their mode Of life to adopt
habits, ard to have their employed in the
ton of houses and the opening and cultivation Of farms
The crops Of the Indians within the four agencies,
bracng the Delawares, Shawnees, Wyandotts Potto-
watamies Kansas, Sacs and Foxes of the Mississippi,
Chippewas, Ottowas, Kaskaskias, Peoras Weas, Plan
keshaws and Miamies have to very great extent,
failed and suffering to unusual degree will only be
prevented by the application of portion Of the ample
money annues which most Of them have, to the pur
chase of such supplies as may be necessary to their
comfort.
The agents have been Instructed t, cause the exterior
lines Of the tracts reserved by the recent treaties with
the tribes west Of Missouri and va for their future
homes, to be surveyed and distinctly marked, that
hal ltanu ~ ~Y:..A
practicable period. In the of the Shawnces. the
united tribe OF the Kaskasas and Others and the Mia
mos the homes of the Indians cannot be selected until
the government made embracing the tracts
ceed by them and it Is therefore vsry desirable that
tie public surveys the Territory Of kansas should be
prosecuted without delay.
The tribes in Kansas and Nebraska. with whom con.
ventions have recently been concluded well as seve
raj others within the range Of the emigration to those
by surprising that their moral condition has
not improved during the past year Most of them
to remove to new locations, but the conventions had
first to be ratified by the Senate and the necessary ap
preparations made to carry out their provisions In this
unsettled state the minds OF the Indians ready
any and every impression that the circumstances
rounding them would be calculated to produce The ef
feet has been and will continue to be- unfavorable to
them, until they eau be placed securely in their
ton The part of their agents and the constant anil
devoted efforts Of the missionaries and teachers to
prevent them from contracting the vices. and
flying, however, to notice the fact that in the midst
Of these adverse influences the various mission
schools within the central supernendency from which
reports have been received are in sound, If not onr
shinf, condition; and the number OF Indian youth at
teading them in equal to that Of any former year
"a heretofore reported to you association Of per
sons las undertaken to appropriate to their own use
portion OF the land coded by the Delawaros fronting
the Missouri rve~ and south Of Fort Leavcnwort have
laid out city thereon and actually had public sale OF
the lots of the the 9th and 10th of Oc-
tober last. These unlawful proceedings have not
only taken place under the eyes OF the military officers
q fN0
members OF the association and have been active agents
in this discredtabe business Encouraged by these pro-
ceedng and prompted by those engaged in them other
persons have gone other portions Of the tract ceded
by the Deawaren trust to the United States and
tend to have made and are now making such " claims
they assert win vest in them the lawful right to enter
the land at the minimum price under the pre- emption
Law of July 20, 1854.
II we'll understood that these parties can acquire no
title TO the lands thus clamed They must be sold at
public sale to the highest bidder and the spuatons of
the treaty complied with in good faith and the govern
who respassng the Delaware ccssion. The effect
has already been injurious to the peace OF the Della
wares, and it is due to them that such prompt and
urmistakabIe action be had will assure them
that the United States will keep its faith. The In
dams should, under circumstances. be permitted
10 become dispred or lose confidence in the public
authorites for il they do, all efforts to cyize them
to improve their condition must be unavaing, Pro-
crastinaton delay in this viii induce others to
trespass the similar cessons made by the Iowas and
kasasas and Others If not upon the homes reserved
by these and other Indians.
In view OF Che facts above stated am constrained to
submit few suggestions in relation to the emigrsted
tribes in Kansas Territory Who b. the policy of the gov
eminent adopted more than thirty years ago, and
lucantly acquesced in by them, removed to and
became inhabitants OF the country embraced in this
Territory Already many OF them have ceded and it is
expected that Others will cede the larger portion Of
their lands 10 the United states for the and ocupa
ton OF citizens. The faith Of the nation pledged
in the most solemn form before these tribes removed to
the region west OF the Mississippi that they should have
The sputed possession and control Of the country
and that the tracts assigned TO them therein should be
their permanent homes twas called the 'Indian Ter
ri;ory and the intercourse act made II unlawful for
white go into It, except license obtained and
for SPECIAL purposes and in this secluded
home, it believed the efforts of the govern
mept and the phanthropist to ciyze the red man.
would be successful tnan ever before. such was
not the case however Our population advanced rapid
Is TO the line which 70 be the barrier and with the
emigration consequent upon acquisitions from Next
and the organization Of Territories,
ry subjected tic Indians to that kind Of contact with
the whites winch sure to ento on them the vices
while deprived Of the good influences Of. civilization.
IN the negotiations for their lands, the Indians
dwct upon tho former pledges and promises made TO
item and aversc, generally to the surrender Of
any portion Of their country They said that they
TO have the land oDg grass grew water I"