Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1886-12-11
indians to be Instructed in the Arts Of
Peace and Industry.

Indians to be Instructed in the Arts OF
Peace and Industry.
WAsHINGroS, December 10th.-A COM
mission, consisting of Bishops 3. Whipple,
of Minnesota, Colonel John V. Wright of
Tennessee, and Major C. W. Larrabee of
Indiana, officers appointed under an Act
of Congress TO negotiate with certain tribes
and bands of Indians in Minnesota, Da-
kota, Montana, Idaho and Washington
Territory, have submitted to General At
kins, Commissioner of Indian Affairs, a
report of their operations up to December
l, 1886. The report says that two separate
and distinct agreements have been effected
as the result of their negotiations-one
with the Indians of the White Earth, Leech
Lake, Cass Lake, Winnebago and White
Oak Point reservations, and the Gull River
Bank, and the other with the Indians of
Red Lake reservation. By the terms of the
agreement with the former, and other scat
tered bands of Chippewas concluded Au-
gust II, 1886, the unoccupied lands of the
White Earth reservation are thrown open
for all the tribes and bands of Chippewas
in Minnesota, the Indians now occupying
the reservation (Which contains about
100000 acres) being first permit
ted to make selections for them
selves. The quantity of land each
Indian will be entitled to receive under the
agreement is as follows: Each head of
family, 100 acres; single person over Is
years of age, so acres orphan child under
Is years of age, so acres; any other person
under Is years of age, 80 acres. The In
dians are to have the benefit of, and to be
subject to the criminal laws of the State in
all ofenses, the penalty for which is death
or Imprisonment in the State penitentiary.
Provision is made for the support of In
n m fp ha
tinued until they are able TO take care of
themselves, but in no event TO exceed two
years. Each head of family and each
male Indian over Is years OF age, when he
becomes a permanent resident upon his
allotment, will be provided with a COM
Portable hewed-log house, cook stove, yoke
of oxen, plow, wagon, and cow, an ak and
other implements of husbandry. Each In
dian shall have five acres of land broken
for him, and be provided with seed for the
first crop. Industrial and district schools
are to be established for all children on the
reservation.
To enable the Government to carry out
these designs, the Indians cede large
tract of land belonging to them north of
Leech lake, which is to be sold upon the
most advantageous terms possible. The
agreement contains several other provis-
ions intended to protect persons and prop
erty. and improve the moral condition of
the Indians.
By the terms of the agreement with the
Red Land band of Chippewas, concluded
August %, 1856. about two-thirds of their
reseryation-or an area estimated to con-
tain over 100000 acres-is ceded to the
United States, to be sold for the benefit of
the Indians. The portion ceded embraces
o vast timber zone, said to beof almost in
calulable value The ereport SAYS that these
Indians require immediate help, and it
was agreed that the United States should
advance $4,000, to be expended in the
building of an Agency, saw and grist
mill and in the erection of comfortable
houses and the purchase of certain peedful
implements. Schools are to be provided,
as in the case of the White Earth Indians.
As with the White Earth Indians. the
criminal laws of Minnesota are extended
over the reservation in certain cases. These
agreements cannot become operative until
they are approved by Congress.