St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1886-08-19
THE YOUNG BRAVES OBJECT.
A Summary of the Indian Comn1s-
sion's Work. -
The Young Men VIII Not Agree TO
the Propositions Made.

United States Deputy Marshal Beaulieu,
rho is a MIXED blood of the White Earth
eservation. was in the city yesterday and
ave some further information concer ming
be treaty which the Indian commission is
ow negotiating with the Indians OF this
tate. Many of the details of the work OF
his commission. which is composed OF
Iessrs Wright and Larrabee and Bishop
Vhipple. have already been published, in
luding many provisions Of the treaty,
jhich it was not intended to have made
ublc until it was either ratified
rejected. Mr.. Beaulieu is one OF the
Dung men of the tribe and is we'll
Informed, practical man in the way OF
BUSINESS, which all the Indians are not.
he attended some of the councils with the
commission and previously indicated that
he younger Indians were opposed to ac-
epting the propositions of the commission.
1r. Beaulieu says it takes tWo-thlrds OF the
indians to ratify the treaty and thinks THIS
will never be done, because. he says, the
roung men are a majority and DO not agrees
With the older chiefs who attended the
ouncil. These young men are led III their
opposition to the treaty by Ne-sho-day
which means a twin, known as Charles
Wright who is the son OF the chief. Wall-
,an-nah-quod or White Cloud, who is at
he head OF all the Mississippi bands.
Wright will some day succeed his father as
he head Of these tribes. He is about SO
fears of age, an Old
STUDENT OF BISHOP wHIPPIE,
md is now all Episcopal clergyman working
ng among the Indians When called upon
N the council by Bishop Whipple to sign
The treaty, he stated that he could not do it,
md explained his reasons to the commission
IL English and addressed his father on the
same subject in the Indian language. He
is followed in his ideas, according to MI.
Bcaulieu. by all the younger men OF these
tribes, and they hope that the other tribes
will not accept the treaty, which Will oDvl-
ate their sending petitions TO congress III the
matter. Mr. Beaulieu explains some Of the
points Oh which the young men differ in
opinion from the older ones. They want
division of the land according to the old
treaty, which gave them 100 acres for every
man, woman and child. The department
now has tie authority, which is exercised
by the Indian agent to order the Indians
off the reservation at any time, and this the
young men want changed. They cannot
see what benefit a title to the land will be
to them if they are liable to be orc cred off
the reservation at any time. The half
breeds want treaty stipulation that they
become citizens. under the present laws
the department has a right to discriminate
between full-blcoded Indians and mixed
blo0ds, and the department compels half
breeds TO take out license if they wish to
trade on the reservation, and to give bond
Df $4,000. This cannot be required OF
full-5looded Indians. A half-breed, it will
be seen, has not so many rights
9n the reservation as an Indian,
LIZ: 4t,<~
reservation. MI. Beaulieu himself has
paid dearly for this discrimination. having
forfeited his trade at a store he had on the
reservation, because he incurred the dis
pleasure of the agent and was refused
license These young men also want courts
established on the reservation. in which
offenders can be tried, and would have mis-
demeanors legally inquired into instead of
having the people ordered off the reServa-
ton without trial, and simply because
the agent thinks them guilty of some Of
tense. The treaty negotiated at the recent
council makes no difference between Chip
pewas and mixed bloods, but when the
young half breeds wanted a stipulation
THAT THEY BECOME CITIZENS,
the commissioners stated that they had no
control over that matter. Mr.. Beaulieu
says that Indians were told that ''al1
sorts of stuff was low" that only five days
were spent in negotiating the treaty.
which is the most important one to the
Indians ever made, aud that there the
commission appeared disguised, and said if
the treaty was not signed the next day
they, would leave and go West. Mr..
Beaulien says that when the Indians sug-
gested some new point for the treaty the
commissioners said they had no authority
over it, and in this way all the important
provisions devised by the young men were
overruled. One curious thing was that the
commissioners would not even leave behind
them copy of the treaty. but promised to
furnish one to the agent and to the head
chief. The commissioners are now at Red
Lake reservation, and 90 from there to
Leech Lake, negotiating with the Indians
on each of the reservations in turn.