The New York herald., 1875-12-30
INDIAN MANAGEMENT.
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InsLaIInGnTs, EeneTaTIy
Indians receive goods and provisions and the services
OF farmers, teachers artisans and anorers who arc
paid by the government The oldest treaty in force IS
that made with the Pottawattomies, August 3. 1875,
and the most recent that with the Cheynenes May TO-
1858. With some tribes as many eight treaties are
sul operative The following treaty Indians :-Apa-
cnes, Assiniboines Arapahoes Comanches Cheyennes,
Chckasaws Chippewas Of various tribes, Choc-
taws, Arapahoes Cheyennes, confederate tribes
and bands Of Indians in middle Oregon, Creeks,
Crows, Deawares, D'wamish and other allied
trtbes Ia Washington Territory, Flatheads and
Kansas Kckapoos, Kiowas Klamaths and Modocs,
Makahs, Menomonees, Miamies mixed Shoshones,
Bannocks and Sheepeaters, Moes Nayajoes, Nez Per-
ces, Omahas Osages Ottoes and Missouries, Pawnoes
Poncas, Pottawattomes, Quapaws, Quniaelt and Qune
hute, Sacs and Foxes Seminoles, Ssnecas, Sha~nses
Shoshones of various bands, Six Nations or o. New
York. Shoshones and Bannocks, Sioux o. uiuerenl
tribes, Snakes, Sklalams, Utes Of various oanus'
Walla Wala Cayuse and Umatila tribes, Wihheoagoes'
SUPPLIES, EXPENDITURES AID ACCOUNTS
Under existing statutes Indian supplies ana annuity
goods purchased by the secretary Of the Interior by
contract upon proposals duly advertised for These
supplies Sc consist Of beef cattle and other prov
sions blankets and other dry goods, -four, groceries,
iron and steel ior blacksmhs shops, agricultural i'm
plements seeds, &c The United States also
bound by treaty stipulaons with tribes to pro-
vide teachers physicians farmers, milers ana skilled
mechanics such as carpenters, wheelwrghts, black
smiths so. In the case OF Indians with whom thcre
treaties the amounts appropriated by Congress
70 oe expended In such goods provisions and other
articles as the President may from time 10 time deter
mine also in nsructng the Indians in agricultural and
mechanical pursuits in providing employees, educating
children, procuring medicine medical attendance,
caring for helpless orphans and supporting the aged,
sick and infrm, and in any other respects promoting
their comfort, civilization and Improvement;
AS check upon Indian expenditures the act OF April
10, 1859, authorized the appointment OF Board OF
Indian Commissioners TO consist Of not more than ten
persons and TO be appointed by the President SOLELY
from men eminent Tor intelligence and philanthropy,
who shall without pecuniary compensation, to
supervise ali expenditures Of money appropriated for
the benefit Of the Indians and inspect all goods pur
chased for them The examination Of vouchers and
accounts however, is not TO be prerequisite to pay
fhuIa ha Aaffh with
out the approval of the Board OF Commissioners, or
necessary, in spite Of their positive dsapprova The
accounts, after Administrative action by the Com
missioner Of Indian Affairs examined by the Sec
Dnd Auditor and Second Comptroller and finally filed
away in the second Auditors office Goods, provisions
and supplies generally purchased by contract are paid
Tor directly from the Treasury upon requsitions made
by the Secretary of the Interior. The amount SO paid
averages over 81 600, 600 per year.
STATUS INDIANS.
Previous to March g. 1871, the United States vrtu-
ally recognized the sovereignty of Indian tribes by
making solemn treaties with them Under the act of
March q 1871 Revised Statutes, 2 079 Indian ma
tion tribe thereafter be acknowledged recog
nZsd as an Independent nation tribe Power
with whom the United States may contract by treaty,
but no treaty lawfully made and ratified prior TO tho
date of the act is affected thereby Ii Is also provided
That whenever the tribal organization OF any Indian
tribe Is in actual hostility to the United States the
President is authorized to abrogate all treaties with
such tribe II, in his opinion, the be done con-
sisenty with good faith and legal and national obhga
tions decision of great Importance bearing on the
status oil the Indian as regards his right to the land he
occupies under treaty stpulatons was made by the
United States Supreme Court in the of the United
States Cook Q9 Wallace 59ll, and is to the effect
that the right OF Indians in the land that of
pancy alone. They have power OF alienation except
10 the United States The fee is in the United States
subject only 10 the right OF occupancy Under this de
cision any purchasing lumber from treaty Indians
who have right to cut lumber except for the purpose
Of clearing their land for actual cultivation will run the
risk Of losing both his money and the lumber.
DELEGATIONS.
One OF the most expensive games connected with the
Indian service the taking OF delegations to Washing
ton to have talks with their fathers the Secretary or
she Interior and Commissioner OF Indian Affairs,
and their 'Great Father, the President
The sombre looking chiefs, whose acme OF luxury on
their native plains has been fat stewed puppy are
taken TO hotels aid fed porterhouse steak, broied
chicken and all the decacies Of the until they
become surteited with ''white mans vietuas'i and
yearn for their aboriginal aeshpots Their agents,
ANXIOUS to keep them in good humor, order raw rpe,
raw liver &C. and the noble rcd spit these danties
on sharp sticks and cook them in their own rooms at
an additional charge 70 the United States Of 81 per
man, per diem, for ''cxtra meals in rooms" When
the delegation leave their quarters the landlord with
sigh Of relief begins 10 reckon up his damages and
his little bill has TO be made expansive enough 10 cover
defaced walls, Brussels carpets worn out with war
dances broken furniture vermin filth and the miscel
laneous debris naturally to ~ expected IN civilized
apartments just vacated by a horde Of untutored
gayages.
one Of the golden rules of Indian delegations is not to
walk when they possibly ride Accordingly omni-
BUS and hack hire figure prominently IN all delegation
hotel bis The only redeemng feature in these bills
the proofthat they incidentally afford in the number
af baths charged for, that the Indian great lover OF
personal cleanliness.
REGISTER OF INDIAN OFFICIALS
The following is corrected register Of officials con-
nected with tho Indians in the Indian Bureau
@. Watkins.
er,ntendents-Northsrn supcrntendency, Barclay
White; Central superntendency Enoch Hoag.
Agents.
Arizona -Moquis Puebla Agency, W B Truax; Pima
and hancopa Agency, J H. Stout; Colorado River
wyn; San Carlos Agency, John Z, Clum; Chincahua
Agency, Thomas J. Jelards; Campo Apache, W. T.
Morford
California Round Valley Agency, j. /. Burchard;
Hoopa Valley Agency James s. Broaddus; Tule River
Agency, z j. Beiknapi Missou Agency, d. A. Dryden
Colorado Los Pinos Agency, Henry F. Bond; White
River Agency, Edward H. Daniorth; Denver City,
James B. Thompson Especial agent.
Dakota -Sisseton Agency j. G, Hamilton; Ponca
Agency, A. @ Garner; Cheyenne River Agency, W.
ton Agency John G. Gassmani Spotted Tail Agency,
Edwin A. Howard; Grow Greek Agency, H, T. Living
son STANDING Rock Agency, John Burke White River
man B. Sperry; Red Cloud Agency James 3 Hasngs
Eiandreau Agency, John ?. Williamson Especial agent
lowa-Sacs and Foxes of Iowa, Thomas ) Free.
Idaho -Nez Perces Agency John B. Monteith; Fort
Hall Agency, w. II. Danson.
Indian Territory.-Usage Agency, isaac T. Gibson;
Kowa and Comanche Agency, James NJ. Hawarth; Qua
paw Agency, Hiram W, Jones; Union Agency, g. W.
ingalls, Cheyenne and Arapahoe Agency, John D.
Miles sac and Fox Agency John h. Pickering; WI
chita Agency Jonathan Richards; Captive Indians,
Charles \. Iarabee especial agent.
Kansas. .-Pottawattome Agency, Mahlon H. Newlfn.
Michigan. .-Mackinaw Agency, George Belts
Minnesota-Chippewa Agency, Lewis Stowe Red
Lake Agency, X NJ. Pratt Especial agenu; Leech Lake
Agency, James Whitehead Especial agcnt
Montana Fort Peck Agency W. W. Anderson; Black
feet Agency, John s. Wood; Flathead Agency, Charles
> Msdary, Milk River Agency, Thomas J. Mitchell;
Crow Agency Dexter 4. Clapp; Fort Bclknap Agency,
w. II. Fcnton special AGENT; Fort Lcmh Agency,
Harrison Fuller special agenp
Nevada Walker River Agency, c. A. Bateman;
Southeastern Pl Ute Agency, A. J. Barnes.
New Mexico.-Navajo Agency, W. +. NJ Army; Mes
calero Apache Agency, williamson D. Crothers; Pueblo
Agency, Benjamin +. Thomas; Abiquin Agency SAM
uel A. Russell special agenu Cimarron Agency, Alex
ander g. Irvine special agent)
Eebrask,L-Pawncc Agency William Burgess; Winne-
bago Agency, Howard White; Otoe Agency, j. w.
Griest; Omaha Agency, T. T. Gilngham; Great Ne
maha Agency, MahlonB Kent santce Agency, Joseph
Webster
New York.-All Indians in New York, agency at
Forestvie. n, H., Daniel Sherman.
North Carolina Eastern Cherokee Agency, W. @.
Mccarthy especial agentl.
Oregon. .-tmatllla Agency, Theophilus W Tafafcrro
Klamath Agency, Leroy Dyar Warm Spring Agency
John smith; Grand Roude Agency, Patrick =. Sinnot;
Malheur Agency, Samuel B. Parrish; silez Agency
William Bagley; Alsea Agency. George 2. Liichheid