The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1867-11-06
Peace with the Indians.

From the ". Y. World
The Indian Commissioners announce the
conclusion of a definite treaty of peace with
all the Southern tribes, including the Kiowas,
Comanches, Apaches, Arapahoes, and Chey-
ennes numbering from five to six thousand
souls. The first two tribes are to confederate
and remove to an agricultural reservation COM
pIising about six thousand square miles, three
and a half million acres of land between the
north fork of the Red river and the Red river
embracing the southwestern corner of the
present Indian Territory, with fraction OF
Texas. The Apaches having also agreed to
confederate with the KiOwas and Co.
manches, are to be placed on an ad-
Joining reservation. These three tribes are
to receive, in lieu of the annuity previously
paid them, one suit of clothes annually for
each Indian, besides which $50, 900 per year
will be expended for such other articles as
they may need. 1t is proposed to furnish
them with agricultural implements, to build
them an agency house, warehouse, and
school-house, and provide dwellings for
farmer, miller, teacher, physician, ETC., who
will be sent to instruct and aid them. Several
Comanches are already farming on their reser-
vation. The three tribes agree to do what
they can to induce the Texas Comanches and
the Arizona and other tribes to join them;
when the Commissioners agree to enlarge the
reservation proportionably to the increase Of
settlers The Indians also compact not to
molest the railroads, 'to keep lasting peace,
to attack no more trains, and to cease killing
men,"
With the Cheyennes and Arapahoes a sepa-
rate treaty was concluded. The reservation
| set apart for them consists of eight OF nine
| thousand square miles, bounded east by the
| Arkansas river, south and west by the Cimar-
ron and north by Kansas. They will be pro-
| vided with a suit of woollen clothing each year
| for each man. and with $50, 900 worth of other
necessary articles annually. An agency house
| and the other buildings mentioned in the
| treaty with the former tribes will also be
erected in their country, and instructors in
| agriculture and blacksmithing, a school
| teacher, etc., are to be sent If they desire
| them. Neither the Cheyennes nor ArapahOes
manifested any wish for these aids to civiliza-
| ton. Buffalo Chief, the head of the Chey-
ennes, spoke his mind very freely to the Com
| missiOners, as follows:-
I'VE spring from the prairie, we live by 1t,
| and prefer to do so, and as yet we do not want
| any of the blessings OF CIVILIZATION Wouo not
| claim this country on which we are now-thst
| try between the Arkansas and the Platte is
| ours. We are willing, when we desire TO i've
| until then we will take our chances. IL were
i well that those soldiers on the Arkansas road
| were out of the country, that we might roam
| over IL as formerly, and that the bones OF our
torefathers might rest in peace. You think
that you are doing great deal for us by giving
| Ihese presents TO us, but we prefer TO live as
lorheriyi II you gave us all the goods you
could give, yet we would prefer our own life, 70
i've as Iree as we have done. You give us pre-.
sents ana then take our land; that provokes
war. have spoken"
Upon this point-refusal to yield. as the
Apaches, Comanches and Kiowas aid. the
right to hunt north of the Arkansas and south
of the Platte-the two tribes were immovable
The Commissioners being forced to let them
retain that right, they finally covenanted ''tC
keep away ten miles from all roads and forts
to withdraw all opposition to white settle
ments, railways, and wagon routes, and keel
the peace" with white men like the res
of the tribes. About 100000 worth of goods
were distributed to the five tribes at the con
clusion of these interesting proceedings
(which distribution" writes correspondent
from the scene, "afforded them an intense
satisfaction"
These treaties sound very well. But tn
flaw in that made with the Cheyennes anC
ArrapahOes is almost certainly destined to pro
duce further trouble. The Cheyennes, the
most bitterly hostile of the north-southen
tribes, are the ones Of all others who ought Il
be forbidden the privilege of roaming alonl