The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1878-11-26
DIR. HOYT'S INVESTIGATIONS.
OUR TREATIES SOLEMNLY MADE AND
H.INTONLY JIOLATED.
ThicvInH Indian gents Making Costly Wnrs
Starving the Red Man Out and Gradually
hut surely DISCRIMINATING the AbarigInes


starving the Red Man Out and Gradually
hut surely ExterminatInR the Absrigines.
The Rev. DR.. Wayland Hoyt, in the Bap-
fist Minister'S Conference yesterday. spoke on
the subject Of the Western Indians and their
treatment by tho present Administration at
Washington. Tho address was the first of DR..
Hoyts travels and Inquiries in the Northwest
with Gen. Towards command. He said that
the 100000 Indians Of the Western country are
rapidly decreasing. excepting the Sioux and
the Dakotas. Tho causes of defamation are
smallpox. intemUerance wars. and the push
ing OF the two armies Of whites onward from
the East and from the West. referring 20 the
Indians beliefs. he snid that by them the soul
is thought to leave the lips. and IL the neck is
compressed mt death then the soul remains in
the body. The anxiety Of an aborigine to scalp
his enemies is to keen him from tho happy
hunting grounds. Sorrow at tho death OF rela-
tves is expressed by looping of part of finger
The speaker saw an old Crow woman faint
away beside log when she had haRgled of
the first Joint Of her little finger. Adult Crow
Indians rarely have, for this reason. scarcity
OF finger joints
No vaincr man than the Indian. continued
the speaker. lives on earth. To stare at him is
the highest compliment His hair is braided
80 that II may be crimped after n victory. His
vanity il the chief obstacle in the way Of civil
Hing him.
=. The causes OF the Indian wars DR.. Hoyt be-
lieved To be three-ilrst and foremost tho non
iulnment OF treaties solemnlY made with them
ny the Government Take the Crow rcservn-
ton as an example. II is halt ms large as this
State. No white mans roads were to be put
through said the treaty. no white settler was to
i've there. But miners rode through the reser-
vation gold was found. and village sprang
up; the game fled before the white man and
tho Indian was left TO starve. The Indians COM
plain 10 Oovernment. which says that they must
remove 10 another reservation, The Indians
Teiuse. and there Is war. SO II was with tho
Nez Perces Army officers say that that tribe
had right on their side.
The second cause OF Indian wars is when the
lndlans submit To Government and agree to re-
main on their reservation and receive Govern
ment supplies. Indian agents who have u sal
airy OF 81 900 10 $1,000 year. have millions Of
dollars worth pass through their hands. Out OF
the liberal appropriations by Congress Indians
receive less than 20 per cent. and ohcncr per
burst of Indignation against them in the Wost.
Are these agents appointed on ommenda-
ton OF our societies 2" exclaimed Prof. Fox.
Precisely SO" replied DR.. Hoyt, and the
appotntee who does not do this Is the exception.
He does exile himself from civilization, and his
chance TO make money from his salary Is pretty
small, particularly ms the whirligig OF politics
may throw him out OF his situation at any time"
Gen. Miles told the speaker TINT he was con
Bannocks. Yet the tribe had to be- conquered,
for y was endingorlnc life and property II
the Indian Agents had done their duty there
would have been no BannocK war.
ANY system" said DR.. Hoyt. IL better than
the present. Six wars have resulted from It,"