Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1872-02-01

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Friends. The parents manifested much
interest in sending their children to
school, but they came almost destitute
OF clothing.
The Government has not fulfilled its
treaty obligations TO this tribe in rela-a
tiOn- TO tie education OF It's children.
/ BY the fifth article of a treaty with the
Pawnees, made in 1857, they are re-
qulred TO keep every one Of their chill
dren between the ages Of seven and
eighteen years constantly at school for
at least nine months in the year. This
/ Implies ac0fFelative duty on thespart
OF the Government to furnish schools
for all the children; but there are not
now and have never been schools sufif--
lcient for half the children Of the tribe.
In my annual report of this year have
brought this subject prominently for
ward. At the Manual Labor School o.
FIrst-day school is kept, which is at
tended not only by the pupils, but by
OF Ter Indians, and meeting for divine
tworship is regularly heldonl the First
1dAy of the week. ! - - = ~
Il The Otoe and Missouri Indians, now
constituting one tribe; number 2S9
males and 20 females, total $50.
There has been in this tribe very
4 decided Improvement since my frst
visit to the Agency in the year 1869.
i Then they were rapidly diminishing in
numbers, now they are increasing; then
they had no school and apparently no
desire for iInprovefnent; now they haye
a fiourishing school which they highly
prize and many Of them are opening
farms, fencing lots, and building houses.
They have cut for building purposes
about one thousand saw logs this year.
The annuity of this tribe is small, and
the agent, A. i. Green, is cramped in
i his efforts to make the needed improve
lments by deficiency Of funds.
At this Agedcya store has been -es-i
tablished by Friends in Philadeladel-
phia, intended to supply the Indians
with useful goods at low rates. 1Acerk
lis employed to conduct it and the prof
it charged is only sufficient to pay cost
eff goods and expenses, including six
Iper cent interest on the capital employ
led. 1t has proved complete success
and given much satisfaction to the In-
idianS. ~ s~s s-=s s-'=7 '-@ss.a :
The Iowa Indians, together with the
Sacs and Foxes, are embraced In the
Great Nemaha Agency under the care
Iof Agent Thomas Lightfoot. The
Iowas number 109 males and JOG fe-
males, total two hundred and fifteen,
being a small increase since last year.
They have during this year been ex-
| tending their farming operations, inn
proving their houses, and adding to
: their furniture. Most of them dress
like white people, and the mothers pay
} increased attention to the washing and
dressing of their children, especially
those that attend school. The school
kept by Mary B. Lightfoot is well aI-
tended, and the pupils make good pro-
, gress. A sewing department has been
added to the institution for Indian We
linen and girls. An Industrial Home
for orphans has been established, which
now accommodates fourteen children
and woul(. be capable of receiving a
greater number, if a larger fund could
be had for its support.
E at this Agency there is store estab-
llished by Friends in Philadelphia, sim
> liar to that kept at the Otoe Agency,
and with the same beneficial results.
The Sacs and Foxes number eighty,
beiDy the same as reported last year.
!. AgeIi Lightfoot reports that they have
this wear shown same disposition to
a labor on their lands. They receive the
largest annuity, in proportion to their
e number, of any Indians in the Noath-
ern Superintendency; butowing to in
S temperance and Incidence, they have
fewer of the comforts of life than any
q others. SIS
They live six miles from the Agency,
d and have no teacher or employee of the
Government residing near them. The
d Government is bound by treaty made
with them in 1861 and promulgated in
1863, to build them school house and
a dwelling house for teacher. have
in my annual report this year earnestly
recommended the fulfillment of this
obligation. q FF
Tiievice Contemporaries, secomrnon
and 50 destEactipe among many tribes
7 of Indians, does not prevail to any con-
siderable extent in the Northern Super
4 intendency. In most of the tribes the
chiefs use their influence to prevent the
4 introduction of spurious liquors, and
Agents punish by imprisonment or 9TH
|. erWise, those of the Indians who are
found intoxicated or in possession of In
toxicating drink. scs,
IS At all the Agencies, pains have been
taken by. the Agents to promote the sta
bility and purity of the marriage rela-
ton among the Indians. At the Santee
q Agency it has become common prac'
;, tice to solemnize their marriages at the
meeting-houses with religious rites. Al
the Omaha and Pawnee Agencies sew
= eral Indian marriages have been sol.
!, emnized nearly in the, manner ol
iFriends; the parties promising to be
faithful ill separated by death, and
signing certificate in the presence Of
d witnesses.
Although. believe the standard o.
morality has been advanced among
them, there is still great deficiency in
this respect, which demands our Chris
Fl tian care.
To BE Continued