New-York tribune., 1873-07-25
IMPORTING INDIANS.

REPORT or COMMISSIONERS ATKINSON AND VIII
LIAMs ON THE PROPOSED RETURN or THE KICK
APoos-MExICAN AUTHORITIES ENCOURAGING
THE PROJECT.
WASHINGTON, July 24-COl. II. r. Clum,
Acting Commissioner of Indian AFiirs to-day received
the following communication from II. ~ Atkinson and
Thomas g. Williams Special United STATES Indian Com
mssioners to remove the ckapoos from Mexico to the
United States. Tie letter is dated ZlragDssa Mexico,
July IL, 1873:
We have the honor to report that tho tn inst the
Indian Chef Chey yuan Ka KO and Michael Thomas, our
Kickapoo interpreter returned 10 Fort Duncan 10 notify
us that the Indian Chiefs OF The KcapOO POttowOtOmie
near RemoinO awaiting conference with the COmmis
siOners. We Immediately started for the camp ana
rived here on tho morning OF the 9th inst, and held
council with them. There were present nearly all the
chiefs OF the two tribes first named together with the
head chf OF the MesceerOs who authorized 10 act
for he Lpins Tney informed Us that they had received
word from NevMcxical Commissioner that he desired
TO see Their principal Chief at sao and that they had
sent on5 OF their chiefs here TO what the new Com
missioner had tO say the subject OF their removal to
the United States; that although they would with
ytt tney could not give us hnal answer unti the re,
be IN few days They further Insisted that 5hoy be
aloWcu TO 20 70 the kckapoo reserve IL Kansas, ana
there consuC with Kansas portion OF their tribe Ia
reference 10 the selection Oi ther reservation, ana Oe
permitted to remain there until the same had been Sc
ecod Ihe head cbicfs further desired that, after their
arrival III Kansas would take three four Ot them
10 see the Great Father at Washington, and
talk ~lth them IN relation TO their reservation.
They also insisted going without escort troops,
and wished to a route Tar of all settlements
nutll they had passed Texas and reached the Indian
Territory. The Mcsceero chief dd not long remain
to council but said If they went they wished to 90 to
the reservation the head Of the Pccos River,
near Fort Stanton. Wnlo the council in session the
chez took horse belonging to Mexican and lett
uncerenoDousy, although 10 was thought he hat only
gone to RemOnO TO await the termination Of council
In tle hicapoos, ana would return IN the afternoon
The Indians Informed Col MOnterO. the Mexican COM
mlndeI, that Mexican, living at RemOluO, some four
miles distant, had been in theIr camp the previous day
aud told them they would all be nassacrcd # they
" Olttu SLlLCs, anu III not Idssdticu lbcJ
%Oulu DC uSaFmed ana put upon an lsand ana eIt 10
staYe Col MOnterO promptly sent order for his ar
res ana htd him brought 90 camp where ne was con
irohtu DJ US lie denied a. iist making the statement
but hnIy admitted tho fact and ackuOWedgcd that he
hId Deen 10 ther camp. The President OF LiragoSa,
VINO was with Us, then and there sentenced
LIN 10 II days Imprisonment, aud hlcd hun
M aCdlt0n. On the following day the chiefs again met
us in council at ZragOsa aud reiterated their former
requests, ana HORNED Wa-Pd-Si would return Ia
Few days and in eight days they would meet again,
and II the cher WaPa-SI received from the Governor
trmatOn OF Col. MOnterDs statement relative TO tue
desire Of the Mexican Government that they should
return TO the United States, that the whole matter
WOud ne concluled ana that they would start lmne-
ddtely with Us 10 the United states. Should they now
ian to 20, the fault viii be entirely with the Mexican
1pFtIbhcl lot II they are III earnest they Will CON
h.m aenOr hOnterO statements ana IN that event the
Indians VIII certainly go.
TAe Chiei, ChequaIn-ka-ko, and Michael Thomas, the
Interpreter, who accompanied US from Kansas, nave
worked increasingly and constantly success, and
10 tnem aud Col MOuterO We arc chiedy indebted
the present favorable aspect OF matters relative to the
object OF our mission. From the present condition VI
things we deem our success almost assured. We have
had the whole resident population or Santa Rosa,
Pedrs, Ac-rds, hctnOlluO,s ANA Otner Me1can towns
opposed to the hucces5 OF our mission
and rapidly one obstacle was removed another mas
aisen yet We tiust no iurher serious obstacles wil
present themselves. We mere desire 10 state that the
recent report OF the presence OF kckapoo Indians on
me san Antonio IOdu Is alst, as tue warriors Oi tnAt
tribe have not been out Ol Mexico recently, aud the
Indians referred 10 by tue san Auona papers are as
W. believe, ComaucLcs ana hioWas from tAe LHah
Territory.