The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1894-08-23
MILE LACS INDIANS.
What Hon. N. Richardson Says Of
the Men Who Have Con-
troll of Indian Affairs.
A Characteristic Letter by Uncle
Nate Written by Request of
Mrs. Wa-we-Way-comig.

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Nate Written by Request of
Mrs. Wa-we-way-comig.
LITTLE FALLS, Aug. 16, 1894.
70 the Editor Of the Transcript:
4 am in receipt of letter from the
wife OF Wave -comig, head chief
of the Mile Laos Indians. She says
she writes to me at the request of her
husband who has gone up to White
Earth with his boy SO that he may at
tend school at that place. She says
that she wishes me to haveit published
in q newspaper that he should not move
to White Earth; that he could not be
hired to do so. I think all of the In
dians that are now on the Mile Laos
reservation are as determined as the
chief is to remain on their reservation
at Mile Laos. There is no question
about the Indians right to remain at
Mile Laos under the treaty made with
them in 1889. So far the government
has violated every pledge made to the
Mile Laos Indians. If they remain
there they will eventually get the
lands that the government has at
tempted to rob them Of by wrongfully
issuing patents for them to parties
claiming a right to them under the
homestead law. Patents issued to
.homesteaders on lands that were by
treaty coded to the Indians are void.
AS a last resort the Indians ask that
their rights to the Mile Laos reserva-
ton may be determined by the courts.
They are willing and anxious to pay
the expenses of legal proceedings to.
determine their rights out of their own
money. But one of the excuses made
by the government officials for not pay
ing them the money due to them is
that they might use some of Ito en-
ploy lawyers to secure their legal right
to the Mile Laos reservation. There
may be honest men in control of some
of the departments of the government
but the officers that have for many
past had control of Ind Liam fairs,
both in the Republican and Democrat
parties, have been composed of as cor
rupt and dishonest a set as ever dis
graced a public Office in this or any
other country. The Mile Laos are
and always have been the most loyal
and peaceable Indians in this State and
yet they have been and are being.
treated in the most shameful manner
by the United States government.
Yours truly, WE
N. RICHARDSON.
Anent the above, Chairman Camp
bell of the Chippewa Indian Commits
sion, was in Princeton last Thursday
and informed the writer that only a
few days ago Mr.. and Mrs. Wa-we-way-
comig were having a high old jamboree
with other Indians and river-drivers in
Carlton. Every government agent
disinterested and impartial men-has
reported in favor of the removal Of the
Indians from Mile Laos, and these
recommendations were not based on
dislike of the Indians but for the bet
terment Of their condition. We would
be loath to believe that all of these
agents were corrupt and dishonest"
Mr.. Campbell says, ssSince the spring
opened have removed 20 of the Mile
Laos Indians to White Earth and they
are comfortably located there in good
substantial homes. The Mile Laos In.
dians already at White Earth are urg-
ing their brethren at Mile Laos to join.
them. Indians from several other
points in the northern part of the State
have been concentrated at White Earth
and they are all contented there, and
many of them, especially the half
breeds, are getting well fxed.o AS we
have remarked on many previous oc-
casions, we fail to see why any person
who has the good of the Mile Laos In
dams at heart should advise them to
remain in their present condition of
poverty and degradation. Mr.. Camp
BELLS particular business here was to
inform the county attorney that he
should prosecute vigorously all cases
of trespass against the Indians, as he
(Campbell) had taken pains to see that
every Indian on the so-called reserya-
tion was warned not to trespass on the
white mems land. It is safe to assert
that there will be no more dismissals
on the part of the county of causes Of
action against Indians.
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