The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1876-09-01

ance Of the Black Hills Peace Commits
sioners, who arrived here on Wednes-
day. The Commissioners were unayoid-
ably detained and did not get away
yesterday, as they intended, but win
leave this morning for the north
DEPARTMENT OF THE Int.
OFFICE OF INDIAN AFFAIRS,
WASHINGTON, Aug. "a
GENrLEMEN-You have been APP
pointed by the President as members of
the Commission to negotiate with the
Sioux Indians, pursuant TO the follow
ing provisions contained in the Indian
appropriation act for the current fiscal
year..
ssFor this amount for subsistence, in
Guiding the Yankton Sioux and Poncas,
and for the purpose of their civilization
one million dollars.
Prorided.-That none of said sums
appropriated for said Sioux Indians
shall be paid to any band thereof while
said band is engaged in hostilities
against the white people; and hereafter
there shall be no appropriation made
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less they shall have first agreed to re-
linquish all right and claim to any coun-
try outside tine boundaries of the per-
manent reservation established by the
treaty of 1868 for said Indians, and
also so much of their said permanent
reservation as lies west of the 103d me-
ridian of longitude, and shall also grant
the right of way over the said reserva-
ton to the country thus ceded for wag-
ON or other roads from convenient and
accessible points on the Missouri river,
in all not more than three in number,
and unless they will receive all such
supplies herein provided for and pro-
vided for by said treaty of 1868, at such
points and places on their said reserya-
tion and in the vicinity of the Missouri
river as the President may designate;
and provided also, that no further APP
preparation for said Sioux Indians for
subsistence shall be made until some
stipulation or agreement have been
entered into by said Indians with the
President of the United States, which
is calculated and designed to enable
7 said Indians to become self supporting.
And the further sum of &c, 1000 is
hereby appropriated to be expended un-
der the direction of the President of the
United States for the purpose of carry
ing into effect the foregoing provisions;
and provided also, that nc further ap-
preparation Ior said Sioux Indians shall
hereafter be made until some stipula-
ton on agreement shall have. been enter
ed into by said Indians with the Presi-
dent of the United States, which is cal
culated and designed to enable said In
dams to become self-supporting. Pro-
vided further, that the Secretary Of the
Interior may use of the foregoing
amounts the sum of 1922, 800 for the re-
moval of the Poncas to the Indian Ter
ritory and providing them a home there
in, with the consent of said band"
1t will be seen from the above that
Congress has expressed its determine
ton to appropriate nothing further for
the subsistence of these Sioux Indians,
represented directly or indirectly in the
treaty of 1868, unless they shall agree
to n country outside the boundaries
of the permanent reservation, establish
ed by the treaty of 1868.
2d-To relinquish all right and claim
to SO much of that said permanent res
ervation as lies west of the 103d merid-
ian of longitude.
3d-To grant right of way over the
permanent reservation to that part
thereof which lies west of the 102d me-
ridian of longitude for wagon and other
roads from convenient and accessible
points on the Missouri river, not exceed
ing three in number.
4th-To receive all such supplies as
are provided for by said act and by said
treaty of 1868 at such points and places
on their said reservation, and in the
vicinity of the Missouri river as the
president may designate.
5th-To enter into such agreement
or arrangement with the president o.
the United States as shall be calculated
and designed to enable said Indians to
become self-supporting.
The subjects of negotiations, with
the exception of the last, are SO clearly
defined by the act as to render further
elaboration on my part unnecessary.
One of the most important subjects
! of negotiation is that represented by
|, the 9th clause, and the President is
strongly impressed with the belief that
the agreement which shall be best cal.
|, culated to enable the Indians to become
self-supporting is one which shall pro
vide for their removal, at as early a day
as possible, to the Indian Territory, ant
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which surround the "Sioux problem
can best be reached by such removal
; Their main dependence for support
!. must ultimately be the cultivation o.
the soil, and for this purpose their OWL
country is utterly unsuited. The SUI
perior climate and soil of the IndiaI
Territory and the fact that that Terri
tory is forever secured to the Indiar
people, should be fairly and strongl.
} presented to the Indians as induce
| ments for them to enter intt
such an agreement. For the past
, three years they have been kept from
starvation by large appropriations fol
? their subsistence. These appropriation
have been a matter not of. obligation
/, but of charity, and the Indians SHOULD
be made to understand distinctly thai
: they can hope for continued appropria
lions only by full submission to the au
therity and wishes of the government
and upon full evidence of their DISPOSE
r ton to undertake, in earnest, measure.
for their ownadvancement and support
The considerations to be offered *
the Indians in return for the cessioI
proposed should in no case take tn,
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