St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1892-04-16
Pillager Indians Deny That
They Will Be Satisfied at
This Time
To Accept an Eighth Instead
of a Quarter Section in
Severalty.
Proud Record OF a Year With
the ST. Paul Academy or
Sciences.
The Great Interest in Eduea-
ton 1t Has Already
Stimulated.

The Leech Lake delegation Of Pill
lager Chippewa Indians, recently in
vited by the secretary Of the interior 70
proceed to Washington and confer with
the authorities of the Indian b1reau,
relative 70 certain claims and grievances
which they hold against the govern
ment. arrived in 81. Paul last night.
The delegation is composed of six mem
beers and is headed 10y Chief Ogeman,
with William BunEa as Interpreter.
The mission of the delegation Is, in
many respects, OF similar nature 10
that which actnated the action
of their fellow men and neighborS.
the returning Chippewa delegation
OF White Earth, that is, in so far as the
settlement OF the reservoir damage
fund. etc. AS 10 the allotment OF land
they have no connection, however, with
the Chippewa OF the Mississippi, they
having accepted the conditions OF the
allOtments of eighty acres in accord
anee with the Dawes act. while the
Chippewa of the Mississippi are. by the
trenty OF 1861 and the further conditions
guaranteed by tie United States Chip
pewa commission which conducted the
negotiations OF 1889, each and every In
dividual. entitled 10 100 acres of land as
an allotment.
Another grievance of the Pillager Iu-
dians, and IL seems Just one, Is in re-
gard 10 the transactions connected with
what is the northern portion of the state
for the purpose OF locating the MenOln
inee Indians thereon. The conditions
of this very peculiar transaction were,
ia part. 10 the effect that the govern
lager indians certain tract of land
which was To- be used as "A home for the
Menominee Indians. OF Wisconsin, aud
who were then expected 10 move there
OH. aud for which rental the govern
ment agreed 10 pay To the Pillager In
dianS the sum OF 81. 900. with the pro-
vision that, If the said MenOminee In
dianS removed thereon aud retained the
same as permanent home, the govern
ment would then pay the said !'illager
Indians full value for the lands So pur-
chased from them, and In case the
Menominee Indians failed 10 remove or
occupy :he land the right and title there
TO would again revert 10 the original
owner. The MenOminee Indians were
never removed TO these rented lands.
and, few years thereafter, the court
through a commission, negotiated with
their removal elsewhere and for the re-
lease and purchase of the rented"
lands belonging TO the Pillager Chippe-
was of Minnesota. The land attained
right and title TO the lands through the
Menominee and the sum total amount
ing 10 some 5000 was paid to the Me-
nominee Indians or, as ii should have
been, paid to the Pillages ChlppewaS.
who were. by right and title, the legal
owners of the land disposed. Now these
people wish to lay this and other matters
before the great father and ask that
something be done IN the way OF recon-
pense for the loss of their lands.
The members OF the Chippewa Indian
delegation who have Just returned from
Washington, have expressed much in
dignation at the statement which ap-
pearrd in morning daily yesterday, re-
garding the feeling OF the Chippewa In
dians relative to the allotment of their
lands in eighty-acTe tracts instead OF the
stipulated allotment OF 100 acres OF land
to each and every individual, and they
brand as absolutely false, and but the
incentive TO deceive public sentiment,
the statement that THE Indians as a
body are we'll pleased with the provisions
of the act relative to the allotment OF
eighty acres OF land" ETC., and regard
these imprOmptu statements with APP
presension, not only as being disagree
able and annoying. but as a threatening
menace TO their best interests and de-
eidedly detrimental to the acquisition.
by them, of clear titles to stipulated al
lotments of land as their heritage 10
home and realty.