Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1871-12-18

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offices of supcrintendents and agents. by earn.
est endeavors, through conciliatory measures
| rather than by force or threatenings, to promote
order and the interests Of peace with the more
| intrUctable and hostle-dispoSed tribes; by seek
! ing TO inspire the confidence OF the Indians in
! the government by dealing fairly and literally
with them, and observing faithfully and prompt
! ~ the treaty stipulationS and provisions made
\ by law for their benefit; and by encouraging
/ every disposition and effort on their part to bet.
| ter their condition, by whatever means would
| tend to that end. As a result may be adj
| duced the prevalence generally OF peace with
| tribes who have hitherto been in open hOstil-
| itv to the government; the marked and graft
| fvinr change in the views and feelings
! OF their members in regard to the ne
cessity Of abandoning their rowing habits
| and of establishing themselves upon res
| eryations, and the efficient and iudcious
| management by the officers Of the department of
the trusts. This warrants the assertion that the
conduct of the service the past year has been
WISE prudent and measurabiy successful, and
affords sufficient reason for INDUCING the hope
of the early accomplishment of the benefcent
designs of the government towards the Indian
race. A spirit of lawlessneSs, disafiection
and even of hostile intent still exists, however
among some of the nomadiC tribes, which, it is
not uniustly apprehended, is engendered and
tostered often by white persons or citizens from
sinister motives. The Indians most difficult
of management, and who have caused the great
est trouble during the past year, are certain
bands of Apaches in the territories Of Arizona
and New Mexico, and the Kiowas and Co.
mancheS of the In lian territory, Those in the
tiTst-named territory, warlike in their DISPOSE
ton from time immemOrial, have changed but
little, and most of them are still under the sur
Vigilance of the military, at whose hands they
have at times suffered severely in consequence
of their numerous murders of citizens and fire.
quent deprcdations. OF late, indications of
better feeling on the part of quite large num-
Der of these Indians have been manifested, and
they have expressed a desire Of willingness to
settle upon reservations and peaceahly yield
themselves to the control of the government.
The Apaches Of New Mexico, more particu-
larry those known as the Southern or ella bands,
have been very troublesome, causing by their
frequent depredatOns and OutrageS great loss
and injury TO the citizens of that territory. So
eXasperated had these citizens become that they
determined to wage relentless warfare against
the disturbers of their peace and depredatOrs
upon their property. Popular feeling in New
Mexico appears to be set against the noted chief
of the ApacheS, named Cochise, who, with his
followers in his mountain reeesses and hauntS,
difficult of access by troops, seems to have set
at defiance the power eXerted for his capture and
subjugatou. Decmiug it practicable to induce
this chief and his people TO be friendly, streuu-
Gus efforts have been made by this department
to get him to visit Washington, but, so far with
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ton of the Apache bands, both in New Mexico
and Arizona, and to provide for their future by
| establishing them in suitable homes, under
| proper regulations and restrictions, the Hon
! Vincent Colyer visited these territories
and after some time spent in COmmu-
nicating with some OF the chief men of
| the Apaches, aud in examining localities
| that might be desirable for Indian reservations,
| the following places were selected by him and
reported to the deparment,-viz Tularosa val
| lev, in New NeXicO for the Mlmbres and
| Coyotero Apaches Of that territory; Camp
| Apache, in the White mountains, Arizona terri
| tory f0r CoyOtero and Chilcow Apaches; Camp
Grant, Arizona, for ArNaypa and Pinal Apaches
and Camp Verde, in the same territory, Tor the
Mohaye Apaches. He also requests that TEN.
porary asyums be established at Camps Nc.
D0well, Bca Springs and Dale Creek, Arizona
where the IOntis, Hualapais and western band
of Mohaye Apaches may be protected and fec
until such time as it shall be found practicable
to remove them TO one Of the abOVe-namGd reSer
vations. Peacefully established on the reserYa
tons indicated, afforded the means of sub.s
teuce and provided with aids for their instruc
ton in agriculture and other industrial pur
suits, it is believed that the citizens Of New
Mexico and Arizona will have but few occasions
for complaints against these Indians hereafter
In regard TO the Kiowas and Co
manches, referred TO as among the
most troublesome OF the tribes, there
|
port A goodly number have remained upon
their reservation, and conducted themselves ii
| an orderly way; but mdny OF them have proved
as hitherto, false to their PROMISES aud have
come far short of the expectations INDUCED
that they would cease their raidin4S and crimes
| The past year has marked their history will
gross OutrageS, and there would doubtless have
been a serious war in augurated by them but
for the watchiulneSS of the military and the
agent in charge of their agency. Lenent
measures ana fOrbearance toward these restless
and War-l0slng spirits appear apparently tC
have no effect IN restraining their passion fol
| plumber and war, and severe treatment would
seem to be the only wise and proper course tC
pursue to compel right conduct on their part.
| VI the tribes OF late years hostile and difficult
| to manage, but now quiet and disposed to be
| friendly, are the ArapahOeS and Cheyennes No
| serious difficulties have arisen with them during
the past year. and their conduct has been quito
| c0mmendable. OF the Sioux nation, in Dakota
| territory, comprising a number of powerful
| bands, heretofore formidable in their opposition
to the government, it may be observed that they
are IN Il good degree Deaceablc Those upon
the reservations, selected for the whole nation
| are quiet; many Of them are friendly disposed
and eyince Il willingness to abandon the hunter
life and become tillers of the soil While the
| government continues to provide for the wants
| OF the Sioux, feeding and clothing them-meanS
| by which they are kept in better humor than
] lucy OtHeINlSt NOulu De--lO outbreak or QlSOr-
| der Of any extent need be apprehended. Some
trouble is anticipated on account of the suspi-
cion with which some of them look upon the
| projected Northern Pacific railway being run
through what they claim to be their coun-
| try; but rs yet no decided demonstra-
| ton Of opposition has been made by them.
| There is another large body of these Sioux
roamingin Montana territory, living near their
| hereditary enemies, the Gros-Ventres and ASSN
| iboins. They were, at the massacre in Minnesota
| of 1862, driven from that state, belong to no
agency or reservation, and claim the right TO
| follow the buffalo wherever they can find if. Nv
| the judcious management of the department
and its officers in Montana these Indians have
! been thus far kept quiet 1t NAV be wen here
to give the military view as to the disposition of
| the Sioux nation, and especially the wander
| inc portions OF it, and as TO the care to he ey.
| erciscd over them. One of the highest an.
thorities in that branch of the service is Of the
| opinion that unless the civil department can
| control the Sioux, hosfilities win be aoaip re.
newed, which the military may not be Able for
the time being to repress, with the limited now.
| err at its command: and il is suopeytrd tbat a
! concilatorv courSe. under fha circnmstonces Ina
pursued. and liberal proyision mada IN, tbo
! wants of these Indians 'O' ''O
| The Indians in Kansas Nebraska tboso in
the Indian country, excepting the Kiowos and