The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1896-11-21
HIT AT OKLAHOMA
FIVE CIVILIZED TRIBES WILL
NEVER CONSENT TO JOIN IT.

FIVE CIVILIZED TRIBES Will,
NEVER CONSENT TO JOIN IT.
Ir Long Resolutions and n Policy They Sc
Forth With Great Earnestness Tha
They VIII Have Nothing to Do Wit
the Land of the Fair God - Create
Amusement at Guthrie - Think The
VIII Be Ready for Statehood Them
selves Ia twenty-five Years-Full Draf
of the Demands.
Guthrie o. T., Nov. 2o-There is
good deal of amusement here over tn
attitude Of the Five Civilized tribes TO
wards Oklahoma. This attitude was as
sumed at South McAlester last week ant
indicates that the rock in the way o
single statehood-that is, one state o
the two territories-will not be placed b!
Oklahoma but by the Indians. The In
dams announce plainly 10 the Dave
commission that they viii never consen
TO a union with Oklahoma.
The resolutions were adopted by dele
gates from the Five Civilized tribes
South McAlester on November y. Thu
resolutions as originally introduced and
passed with the demands OF the tribe:
are given below In addition to these
resolutions an amendment was passed
expressing the sense of the meeting thai
it would be twenty-five years before the
nations could assume statehood.
The following is what has beent sem
to the Dawes commission:
Resolved, That it is the sense of this
convention that the time has arrived
when the repeated demands of the
United States makes it imperative on the
Five Civilized nations to treat with the
United States commission.
1T is of the highest Importance that
the Five Civilized nations act in perfect
harmony and on a definite common line
OF policy, which is hereby solennly
pledged to the other. The following line
Of policy is regarded as essential to Sc
curing the best interests Of the Five
Civilized nations under the pending con-
ditions-and it is adopted:
POLICY.
1--WE recognize that the proposals of
the United States distintegrating the
land of our people by allotment and
town-site division, mean ultimate state
government, and that in dealing with
the United States we must fully and
clearly recognize this policy of the gen
eral government and conduct our negO-
tiations on this basis so as TO secure all
of the amounts due our nations and peo-
pie, with an agreement of method of con-
Deriving our material and political rights,
rs condition precedent to disintegra-
ton of lands and tribal governments.
IF impelled to dissolve our tribal gov
ernments we wish TO construct an ADLER
government which shall protect the lives;
the happiness, and the property of our
people and secured by the proposed ne
gotiations.
81. We will insist on a full payment
of all the claims due to each of the ma
lions arising out Of treaty stipulations or
other relations, to be agreed on by the
commission of each nation and the Unit
ed States commission and paid as soon
as practicable and before any impair
ment of tribal government.
az When division of land shall be
made all the land shall be divided
among the citizens Of the nations,
share and share alike, except as modified
by Indian law and treaty, and the pat
ent shall remain inviolate, retaining SOW
ereignty in the nation until a state gov
eminent containing constitutional pro-
lection as hereinafter set forth shall
have gone into effect.
49, Impelled by the earnest and re-
peated assistance OF the United States
demanding of our people the relinquish-
ment of our tribal governments We feel
obliged to insist on a personal compen-
sation to each of our citizens of not less
than $500 apiece, TO be paid before our
governments are destroyed, the amount
10 be determined by each nation. This
demand is based on the following
reasons:
''(a) Our people must relinquish a
government to which they are deeply at
tached. They must give up their social
customs, habits and observances which.
observed for many years, have become
Essential to their happiness.
''(b) They must assume new and
strange duties and habits, to which
they are totally unaccustomed and
which will prove irksome and expensive
in the extreme to our individual citizens,
especially to our thousands of non-Eng-
lish speaking people.
''(cl Each individual will have TO build
new outside fences on north south east
and west lines according to the lines
newly surveyed by the United States.
This will cost hundreds of dollars to
each quarter section, about which would
he two miles of fence. at least. in every
instance. This will cost money.
''(d) Our citizens will have to move
houses. fences. corrals, etc, and change
orchards. water supplies. cultivated
fields. etc, and other established i'm
provements 10 conform to these new
lines Of survey. This will require money.
''(e) Our citizens win lose free pastur-
age for cattle. and every family cow that
now has onen range will require the
building OF small pastures for such cat
tie and providing OF necessary forage for
such stock, This needs money.
20 Our people vino have got their
winters meat and annual food from
swine running on the open mast. will he
compelled tn bring them home and build
special close pens and provide food for
them. Our people Will have to pay the
bill.
'(g) Our people will pc driven to
abandon all their previously constructed
roads and must of necessity build new
roads for travel on north ana south. east
and west lines. build bridges. etc. which
wiH Impose new unavoidable and unex-
peCted expense on our peOple
th) Our people will under the new con-
ditions be required 70 bear the immedi-
ate, close personal contact with rumer-
Gus impecunious persons. impoverished
IN other states. who will endeavor 10
better their condition in the Indian conn
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