New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1885-03-23
THE PRINCESS wIsNEMUcoA.

@ EdltOr OF me ITlOuae.
SIR; Some weeks since / saw in THE
TRIBUNE an article In which you spoke Of stories OF
the Indian Agent Of the Piute Reservation OF Nevada,
impugnlng the truthiuncSs ~ Sarah Wnnemucea Hop
kus who has la the East telling OF the wrongs ana
claims OF people, and who uniformly took captive
every audience she addressed, and made intimate
friends Of women the highest character ana especial
ly In baltimore Of ladies OF wealth and position She OBJ
toind thousands Of signatures her petition that Con
.ress should grant them land for seltsupport-whieh
interested senator Dawes and several Representatives
so that she summoned by the House Committee to
specia conference that lasted two hours and insured
the acceptance by the OF tho provision made in
tho senate bill for their having lands In seyeraity
Che spoke ny invitation sixtywo times in Baltimore on
The of her people, their customs, religion,
history etc. and sold between October 1888 and june
1884 800 Of her books. and In August went out to
Nevada though with despair IN her heart because the
execution OF bill left to the Interior Department.
and when she got there she found the Agency in full
mower nuiyIng the decree OF Congress- OF which she
cent reports In continuous correspondence with
mvsef and sister We duly reported them to the Indian
Commissioner who had advised her going In August
TO "scttlo down" with her people, promising to CO.
onerate with her definite plans OF oducaton and she
had the very definite OF having school for tho In
dustria arts IA well for reading aud writing In which
she should teach the children Lnssh ahh not separate
them from their homes.
Che remained there literally In state OF maryrdom
for months and would have died OF prvaon and cold
Int for weekly romttanoes OF her friends In tho East
which she persisted In receiving as loan, to be reim
bursed should tho act OF Congress BIO executed, oil
though that would emily be done II, first,
| tho agency wa, swept away for, OF course,
the possesson OF lands In sovoralty and ctzea rights
cod not consist with being wards aud at the mercy
of Indian agents who only by rare exceptions nave eyer
been thing but vamI Her friends persuaded her
Co STAY and report TIL Congress met, vines they hoped
energetic measures would be taken BY tho CoHssloher
who seemed kindly disposed though lie has very little
nower aud when he told that the agents opposed
| iho canning upOn the Reservation or the bands 10
| whom lands In IL given. he sent a special
| agenI ms he said, To mako arrangements, VINO ala
MT arrive t the middle OF December, and then was APP
| norcnty captured by the Indian Agent who know he
shoni lose his II the act Sarah had procured TO be
az an the authority OF this agent that the story you
rortcd I'm your paper told just at the moment that
| s6r having seen Mr. Ellis despaircd, aud went of To
| IaIlfornia TO commence "a new campaign on her own
tnnsIbilty After she had been there six weeks she
herd of these stories; and how she met them will be
ecn Inv the article FROM The San FancISco Chronicle
| which enclose to you
| " Respectfully,
| EIIzABETu p. PEABODY
| .yap,aica PLAN, Mass. Feb 8, 1888.
| (ruE TRIBUNE printed on March Princess Win
nemucca,s story, to which Miss Peabody REFERS
| Ed