The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1858-09-01

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vengeful because their domains are invaded
and their game destroyed to such an ex
tent that starvation often drives them to
desperation. 1t is believed that there is
not now tribe within our territories but
what would raise subsistence from the soil
could they be protected from border ruff
fan outrages and have the necessary fa-
cilities in seeds and implments and in
structors. But before they can be ex.
pected to conform to our habits and be
firm in their allegiance to our government
they must have full and impartial protec-
tion of our laws and faithful appropria-
tion Of all which our treaty stipulations
call for.
Unfortunately this is not the case at
present, as the following from the publish
ed Reports of Indian Agents too sadly
prove. In the treat with the Sioux,
made in 1851, the most prominent stip-
uation was that schools were to be estab-
lshel /, for which six thousand dollars an
nually was appropriated, but the Agent
afirms that up to this time they are with
out schools.
This neglect is source of great disquiet
among the leading men of this tribe who
are earnestly desirous to improve, but they
see the means denied them, while their
children are growing up in Ignorance and
under the blighting influence of the worst
examples of dissipation, and their own
funds, amounting to tens of thousands of
dollars, withheld from their use.
The Agent of the Miamees make SIM
liar statement in relation to that tribe.
He says that ample provision was made
in the treaty for the education of their
children, but the funds are withheld. and
consequently their children are neglected
and some of them hopelessly ruined
The Indians of Southern Oregon made
treaty by compulson, and gave up one
of the most beautiful valleys ON the con-
tinent, and removed to the coast range of
the mountains utterly uncongenial to their
love of home and all the interests and as
sociations of life, and the annual sum
agreed to be paid for this beautiful valley
of groves and meadows and gold mines
and fertile land, only amounts to $3.50 for
each Indian, not enough for pair of pants
apiece, and even this amount is not paid
as agreed. In the spring and the summer
of 1855 q treaty was made with the fol-
lowing tribes in Northern Oregon and
Washington Territory; Dwavmish, Squa-
mish, Mokahs, Skallams, Quanailts,
Quitchutcs, Flatheads, Kootenags, Des-
chutes, Wallawsllas, Cayuses, Umatillas,
Molaias, Yakimas, Paloase, Nez Perces.
These Indians, numbering l5,507 souls,
signed treaty on the lth of June. 1855,
by which they ceded to the United States
62,4l5,3 $3.50 acres of land, for which they
were to receive in cash arrangement,
S2,052, 900, hesides s1ndry considerations
to be in force for term Of twenty years.
Yet, the writer adds, these treaties have
all been neglected, while the white settlers
have all been steadily taking possession OF
the Indians land, thus annihiliating their
game and all their means of subsistence,
without giving an equivalent
The facts here presented are sufficient
to show that if any people ever had cause
to complain, the Indians have ; conse'
quently this sending armies to conquer
and destroy is war against justice and
every principle of humanity and right
But how can we prevent it By con
tributing your means to the " Indian Ait
Association" recently formed in New York
which has undertaken to revolutionize th'
whole system Of the Indian treatment, by
the employment of agents and the distri
button of documents. and thus promote
correct information and the high moral sen
timent of the country, until as nation w
become in reality what We are by position
the guardians. protectors and educators o
the weaker races of this continent, an(
thus reverse the atheistic and cruel notiol
that Indians are to be destroyed by IN
march Of cirilization. Such an assump
ton should be denounced as relic o
the dark ages utterly unworthy the natio
and age in which we live.
Here is work which calls upon all
take hold, and in which earnest practica
Christians should especially take the leaC
Let those who think that to be conssten
a.. in prayer and suppication is sufhcen
q read the lst chapter of Isaiah from tn
1lth to the 18th verses inclusive, or il
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