New-York tribune., 1879-06-07

some houses bmit some land poue ned and some stock
around you ana then the Indian ring Will pounce down
on you all you have and send you OF 10 the Indian
Territory somewhere else 10 start lie anew lhat IL
the way they did with the Poncas aud numerous other
! tribes and that is the way tney w do with you" l
didn't tell him that, although IL would have Deen the
| eyaet trutb Perhaus | should have told him. but /
nave hope that the supreme Court VIII COnirm Judge
Dundy's decision in the Ponca haoeas corpus case.
| which would put an everlasting quletus on tnat KIND
| OF business
| THREATENED OUTRAGE ON THE SANTEES.
EXTRACTS FROM LETTER FROM BISHOP HARE TO
THE TRIBUNE-A PROPOSAL TO SELL THE FARMS
OF THE NEBRASKA sANTEES AND REMOVE THE
TRIBE.
! TIE TRIBUNE has received letter from the Rev.
! William III. Hare Missionary Bishop Of Nebraska,
who calls attention to bill which has been intro
duced in Congress providing for the appralsement
and sale of the farms of the Santee Indians and re-
curing the Secretary of the Interior at once to
the Santee tribe to be removed. Bishop Hare de-
| nOunces this movement as shameful wrong. Vi
! the Santees in Nebraska he says
They have been transformed during the past fifteen
years from the most warlke and blOOdthirsy or our
enemies 10 the steadiest OF our friends Ihey nave
been for years barrier 10 the WAtes against the iu
cursions the wilder Sioux, and are looked upon by
them than white men, Forty or tnelf young
men were scouts with Clusters expedition in 1874 and
bore witness in the highest terms of their manness
Dumber young belonging 10 the white race could
/ be collected I'M any community OF the same size
! Of the santee Young men who accom- panied the
! Black Hills expedition" Similar testimony was borne
regarding Sduteo scouts by General Stanley IN ls12
Tne Santees have occupied tueir lands IN peace ana
quetne,s, without mcestng the persons or property OF
the WHITES for the past eleven years. Ihey nave taken
up land I'm severalty aud the Government has given
them certificates for theIn.
They have built themselves log houses, cultivate the
ground. and attend church IN numbers winch
would do credit 90 any Aew-Engand County. Thirty OF
forty OF these oantees are now employed as lay and
clerical missionaries among tue wilder Sioux, ana SIX or
them are candidates TOR the ministry.
that IL Il customary desplse the lndlan
and pOoh-pOon his rights. But know that nave
rusty ministers ana teachers who have been raised u
from among them. We nave just erected IA Sl,2OO
church among distant band OF indians to which tLese
Santees contributed over 500 Ana i carry IN
heart the peOus appeal with which one Uf the San!ec
ministers closed letter winch he wrote some Time
ago: that the good CHRISTIAN people Of the Last
would look toward my people with prayer when The
going down! !" These Santees are worth saving
icy which, instead If saving tneu tends to drive them
to become hopeless, homeless gIpsy-like population,
whose men prowl around settlements aud mis1Ueu
women ana children when their husbands are absent
and whose women sell their virtue for piece OF bread
Bishop Hare goes to say that the SanteeS were
assigned by the President III 1867 to that small re-
serve in the northeast corner OF Nebraska, which
they now occupy. They never wished to remove
from their present homes; agreed, as
has been asserted III accordance with the treaty Of
1868 to relinqulsh all right to occupy permanently
any land outside the Great Sioux Reservation in
Dakota. On the contrary, they refused to sign that
treaty until the provision under which they now
hold their farms was added to it. They are now
anxious, poor as they are, TO pay for filing their
claims in the Land Office to the lands which they
have striven to improve and defend. For two
years they have been pressing upon the attention
of the Government petition signed by 1856 men
and two women in which they say that they have
done what they were bid to do, and add E" But
we are not yet participants in the laws of Knox
County. And, therefore. we pray the President
that, since we are satisfied with this country no
would help us to secure, like white men, lG0 acres
each, by paying the homestead entries thereon"
Bishop Tlares letter concludes rs follows:
The only possible iaw which / discover in their
local title TO the lands which these Santees now occupy
which may arise from the question whether tho
land in Nebraska as reservation for them As mat
ter of fact however tas was done in 1867; notice was
white men would be allowed thereon y; ls-e orginal OF
this notice IN the hands OF Il. Westerman Nlobrara,
Neb.) che Sintees have again and again been assured
that the land thus set apart was their permanent home
land has been paroelcd ont to them in farms, ana
tho Government has given them certificates therefor
and they are anxious aS have said before, 10 secure
patents for them. II 1t snail prove that the President
exceeded his rights IN setting this land apart
walton for tho S3ntees and II shall thus appear
tina foundation on Which tney had reason 10 be-
heyo all these years that they could securely
hold IL an Illusion. then they have been unwitungly.
but tho less really, subjected to great wrong.
aud the proper way for just ana magnanimOus nation
To moot tne question Is TO pass not G Tor the re-
bal for eauitaDiy cXtnaushng all other claims upon
these lands amt bestowlns them upon the Santees:
After ths recital OF facts, t IN hardly credible, and
yet 10 the actual ract, that bill has been prepared
and prseuted IN Congress providing for the appase-
and safe OF the farms 0 the Saptees ana requr
tho secretary OF the Interior 10 ~ cause the
Tribe to be remoyed and this bii Is haeed by
"A resolution OF both houses OF the Legislature OF
Nebr.skal Legislation Intended 10 protect these
people IN their rights and help them 70 pe inen t"e
Senate b.ll 4o3, XNth Congress second session, and
Senate bill l777, NLVth Congress- third session. has
failed year after year obtain the attention OF Con
IL famlns u be srOn whether legi>l !tiOu M
tended 10 rob hcm OF their land 8nd transfer 1t TO
white viii DO pressed 10 asuuoessful Issue.