The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1898-08-30
ABOUT GIVING FREEDnEN FORTY
ACRES OF LAND.

give the ChlckaSaW ana CnOc
taw freedmen forty acres nf
land each, as agreed in the
treaty Of 1866. We fail to see
how it can be an outrage"
any more than it is an out
rage" to give the Indians 5O0
or 600 acres each.-Pontotoc
County News.
Because the editor of the
News is so full of prejudice be
can't do the Indian justice is
no fault of the ARDMoREITE.
These lands belong to the
Indians. The government did
not give it to them. They
traded lands IN other states for
it, and when this country was
wild waste came to it and have
lived here ever since under the
sacred guarantee of the United
States government that they
should own and hold it forever.
Some Of these Indians owned
slaves. just as thousands of the
Southern people did. After
the war, in 1866. the United
States congress submitted a
treaty to the Indians of the
| Chickasaw and Choctaw ma
tions for their ratification or
rejection. The third and fourth
articles of this treaty provided
for the giving Of the freedmen
forty acres of land each, with
all the rights. privileges and
immunities. including the right
of suffrage. serving on juries,
etc.. except annuitles, that the
Indian himself enjoyed. These
articles are as follows:
Art. 3. The ChoctaWs and
Chickasaws, in consideration
of the sum of $500, 900. hereby
cede to the United States the
territory west Of the 98th de-
gree, west longitude, known as
the Leased District: provided, 4,
that the said sum shall be in
vested and held by the United
States at an interest not less
than 5 per cent, in trust for the
said nations. until the legisla-
lures of the Choctaw and Chick
asaw nations respectively shall
have made such laws, rules
and regulations as may be nee
essary to give all persons of
African descent, resident in the
said nations at the date of the
treaty of Fort Smith, and their
descendants. heretofore held in
slavery among said nations, all
the rights. privileges and in
munlties, including the right of
suffrage, Of all citizens of said
nations, except in the annui-
ties, moneys and public do
main claimed by or belonging
to said nations respectively A.;
and also to give to such per
sons who were residents as
aforesaid. and their descend
ants, forty acres each of the
land of said nations on the
same terms IS the Choctaws
and Chickasaws, to be selected
on the survey of said land,
after the Choctaws and Chicka-
saws and Kansas Indians have
made their selections as herein
provided; and Immediately on
the enactment of such laws,
rules and regulations the said
sum of 100000 shall be paid
to the said Choctaw and Chick
asaw nations in the proportion
of three-fourths to the former
and one fourth to the latter
less such sum, at the rate ot
500 per capita. as shall be suf
| ficient to pay such persons oi
African descent before referred
to as, within ninety days after
the passage of such laws, rules
! and regulations, shall elect tC
remove from the said nations
respectively. And should the
said laws, rules and regulation.
not be made by the legislature,
, of the said nations respectively
within two years from the rati
fication Of this treaty, then tn,
: said sum of $500, 900 shall ceas,
to be held in trust for the saiC
Choctaw and Chickasaw ma
! tions and be held for the US
t and benefit of such of said pei
g sons of African descent as tn,
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