Arizona republican., 1899-10-13
CREEKS COMPLAIN
Delegation in Washington to
 See inc Great Father.
They Say That inc Government Has Violated Almost Every Provision of inc Treaty Signed by PreSi- dent Adams in 1925.

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 Indians. headed by Chief Ho-Tul-Kee Yo-Ho-Lo, who are here to ask the government to allow the Creek Indians
 to live under the treaty signed by
 President Adams, in 1895, with Chief Ho-Poth-Lo Yo-Ho-Lo. The Creeks
 contend that the government has vio- | lated almost every provision of that treaty, and that under the laws now
 made to govern their nation they are
 fast being driven out and pauperized by scheming half breeds, whites and
 negroes, who are permitted to come in
 to their territory and share with them
 whatever privileges and rights the gov
 ernment grants them.
 The delegation reached Washington
 two weeks ago. and recently had a
 short talk with the president Sandy
 Johnson, the interpreter, a well edu-
 cated Creek, laid the facts before the
 the president and told him that the
 Creeks believed they had the right to l ask the government that they be all i lowed to live under the treaty made
 in 1895; that no other treaty was ever made which would take precedence over this one, and they felt that if the | Great Father intended to treat them well, he would see that the compact
 made with Great Father Adams was | not allowed to remain as it now is
 worthless. President Mckinley told i the chief and his followers that he felt that the government intended to
 deal fairly with them in every way, and that he would arrange a meeting for them with the secretary of the
 interior. to whom they could commun- icate their grievances and under whose official jurisdiction their claims would come.
 Before departing the large silver
 medal which was given old Chief Ho-
 Poth-Lo Yo-Ho-Lo by President Adams at the time the treaty was
 signed in 1895 was shown to the presi- dent. The medal on one side bears the bust of President Adams. with the in scription: United States of America, John Quincy Adams, President, to Chief Ho-Poth-I4o Yo-Ho-Lo' On the reverse side is a hatchet and pipe
 and cIasped hands, with the date and
 Peace and ''Friendship'' in large letters. The Creeks value the medal
 very highly, and it is never permitted
 to go from the hands of one of the leaders of the nation, it now being in
 charge of Chi-Lo-To-Ho Yo-Ho-Lo, 1 known as John Wilson, who is with the delegation. Chief Ho-Tul-Kee Yo- Ho-Lo said to the correspondent:
 Our fOrefathers were wiser than we They had more knowledge than the present generation; their paths i were stained with blood. They con cluded that that would not do, and i the nation met and made peace. They | made their paths white and their | doors were opened to let each other in; ! they said that their children should | grow up in friendship with each other | If blood was found in the paths it must | be the blood of a hunter killed by a i falling tree or from the poisonous bite l of a reptile. Our forefathers said that 1 a large white ball was coming which | would crush us out as a nation, but that the white ball would be friendly and that we would live in peace; there would be friendship and no killing. When peace was made and paths made white, a law was passed be- tween Cherolees, Creeks, Choctaws and Chickasaws, that if a person killed one of their tribe they would unite and put him down like a tree with berries on 1.-the birds all flock to it and they destroy it. This law our forefathers told us that the time would come when we would go toward the setting sun. The tobacco was smoked with white beads around it. This was a token of peace. The bushes had been broken and the paths ; opened. The Great Spirit had made us one family. But there was not peace for us.
 ''The Great Father las forgotten the treaty signed with our Chief Ho-Poth- Lo Yo-Ho-Lo in 1925, which said that , the treaty should stand so long as the ] grass grew, the waters run and the sun sent forth it's rays. All these things are the same as then, but the : white man and the negro are among cur people and are taking what the l government gives us; land surveyors , are in our territory measuring off our hunting grounds, and confining us to smaller quarters. We did not give them the right to come there. A great majority of our people do not want aHotments. We want to live in peace the few of us that are left. We do not . want the half-breed. the white man 1 and the negro to take possession of S what~ve have. The Creek and Indian in general have been badly treated. Let us live under the treaty made in