The silver state. [volume] (Unionville, Nev.) 1870-1903, 1881-12-13
INDIAN AGENTS.
What Princess Sallie Winnemucca Thinks
of Them.

Who was recently married in San Fran
cisco, and purposes going east with her
husband to lecture on the Indian ques-
ton, has been interviewed by reporter
of the San Francisco Examiner, to whom
she said:
81 go to the Eastern States fer the
purpose of, and with the hope Of,
spreading little information concern
ing the
INDIAN RACE,
And their treatment by Indian Agents.
1t is by the desire and request of my
father, Winnemucca, Chief of the Pr
utes, that l 60 forth to lecture to the
whites in the East. 1t is not so much
for pecuniary gain that l make this
Eastern tour, but with well-founded
hope that what say may tend some
what to correct some erroneous impress
sions concerning the Western Indian
tribes
"You mean the Piutes?"
"No; / mean all the Indians who are
afflicted with that terrible pest-the
Indian Agent"
"You do not favor the present Indi-
an Agency systeln?"
"No; and none of the Indians favor
it. We regard it as the cause of all our
woes and troubles. 1t was the cause of
all the recent wars, and will cause an
other outbreak ere long on the Piute
Reservation. / have notified the mill
tary authorities that our people were
preparing for another outbreak, which
will certainly occur if the Indian Agent
up there at Pyramid Lake is permitted
to remain there and continue his pres.
ent high-handed treatment of our peo-
pie"
'In case the present Indian Agency
system was abolished, what other sys-
TEN would the Indians prefer"
THE REMEDY.
"Let the Government select chief
or prominent man in each tribe who
possesses the confidence of the people.
Let him be the Agent, and let him dis
tribute the goods or annuties. We
want no more of these white hypocrites,
who are not content to steal half the
Government allowance, but insist upon
taking it all. My brother very correct
ly illustrates the Indian Agency system
when he said at counsel the other
day: we do not object to the Agent
clasping the sack in the middle and re-
tai"ing half of our allowance, but when
he empties all there is into his own
store and throws us the empty sack
then we object. That" continued the
Indian lecturer, sis what these Indian
Agents do. They are useless class Of
people, utterly despised by the Indians,
and are the cause of all our troubles
with the whites"
How have You acquired such prof.
cheney in the use of the English Ian
guage."
1T was the desire of my grandfather,
'Truckee, that / should be educated
like the white people, and my father,
Winuemucca, sent myself and my sis
ter to the Sisters Norte Dame in San
Jose, where | received my education.
My grandfather was always great
lover of the whites, and when General
Fremont arrived among us on his way
to California my people regarded it as
the fulfillment of an old Tradition of our
tribe, which has been handed down
for many generations.
A TRADITION.
The tradition is this: In the first
creation OF man there was one man and
one woman and they had four children.
Two of these children were boys and
two were girls. One of the boys end
one of the girls were white, the other
two were dark. AS they grew up they
quarreled so much that the father babe
the white boy and girl to cross the big
water and seek better country. The
white boy and girl went eastward and