Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1901-03-02

|ND|ANSNAKED DEMANDS
Delegation Of Musquakies Visit
the Great Father at
Washington.
Claim Respect For Their Tribal
Marriage Laws and Their
Morals.
Ask Protection From Gamblers
and Bootleesers..Wou Keep
Whites Away.

Tama. March 2.-Six Indians from the
preservation of the SacS and Foxes, ac-
companied by r.. 1. Wilcox Of Montour,
left on the 1910 passenger en- route TO
Washington, d. c., to present list OF
demands on the part Of the tribe. The
Indians who comprise the delegation
|are George Morgan. James Peters,
|Kish-a-Qua, Pi-Osh, Wilton I-See and
Sos Ma. They will go from Chicago to
washington over the B. & o.
The reason for the trip to Washington
will be found in the trouble that has
been going on for months between the
indians and the Indian agent and the
superintendent of the Indian school. A
list of the demands that will be made
lappear below:
1 The Sac and Fox Indians make the
following objections and complaints
against the United States agents and
Representatives In their dealings with
1 them as tribal Indians:
\ !. They claim and demand that their
tribal marriage laws and customs shall
mot be ignored, but respected, including
Itheirs claims to morality.
/ .. They claim and demand that in
ltheir tribal marriage relations they
shall not be ill-treated and abused by
1.-THE government agents and representa-
ltives as polygamists
g. They claim and demand that the
government agents shall not publish
them to the authorities at Washington
land the world as base and immoral.,
never living together except for immor
lal purposes. Claiming as a matter of
fact that they have more regard for
morality and marriage rights than the
|iwhite race
4. They claim and demand that their
Tribal children have the right to their
fathers and mothers and obedience to
such parent, as the first law by which
Ito be governed And the fathers and
|mothers in turn claim by the laws of
Iaffection, consanguinity the laws of
4 their tribe the treaties with the fed
sIeral government, and Laws of God the
supreme and divine right to be first
consulted as to what shall be done with
Itheir children. before taken forcibly
from them by government agents and
superintendent, as has been done in
the past. and they demand a guarantee
A against such unlawful aggressions in
i the future.
s. They demand that the policy or sy g.
A tenn now being attempted to enforce.
which is founded on force and brutal
|compulsion, In ignoring the parental
consent, and a system. too, that ignores
and is intended to break UP and destroy
the Indian family be at once abandoned,
as being not only inhuman but also a C.
. Cursed and without the protection OF
sound law
and freedom from being harrassed and
y Illegally prosecuted In and thru the
state courts by the federal agents and
superintendent as not being subject to
the jurisdiction thereof, and also protest
against the unlawful detention of their
Iannuities on the alleged and pretended
claim of paying the costs In Illegal state
prosecutions. And they further demand
a guarantee against such unlawful ag-
q gressons in the future.
Z. They claim and demand the abso-
lutte right to the rents and profits OF
their own lands. bought with their own
moneys. and that the United States
agent has no right to rent such land
without their knowledge or consent and
! collect the rents and profits thereof ant
: convert the same to his own use and MOI
! account therefor, and they demand .
Z guarant tee against such unlawful ag-
= gressions in the future.
g. They claim and demand that In.
stead of the agent and superintendent.
]. spending their time attending so-callec
!. Indian Rights Society and local preju.
: dice meetings, making big speeches and
counting applause from the back seats
> for forcibly taking their children from
them without their consent. the agent
and superintendent should instead
spend at least part of their time witt
them looking after their material inter
g ests az their protector and guardian
J. and make some effort at least to pro
: tect them from the ravagess OF the whit
Q bootlegger and gambler. and IL neces
! sary in aid thereof, ask congress to pas
. an act making 1t criminal for whit
. person to be caught on their lands
). placing the burden Of proof on such per
a son to show good cause for being upo
4 such premises.
J 9. They claim and demand the electio
& of their own tribal officers, according I
their tribal laws and usages. withou
interference on the part OF the govern
ment agent in charge.
!, 10. They claim to be a settlement o
y colony residing on 5000 acres OF Ian
r. owned in their own right, under thei
II tribal laws and usages, and that tn
e twenty sixth general assembly Of Iowa
d chapter 40, passed in 1896 assuming I
y grant, and the United States assumin
st to accept jurisdiction over these tribs
e. Indians and their said lands. at tn
e same time the state Of Iowa .reservin
h all the Jurisdiction 1t ever had over sue
re land, is of no legal or binding force, Il
the state of Iowa had nothing IN far
to grant, 1t thereby granted only a
empty nothing. and the federal govern
ment required nothing greater tina
u what Iowa had to grant.
u, III. They claim and demand that
N the laws and usages Of their tribe tt
,e eternal right in sickness to be treate
d and doctored by their own medicine
az men, without such medicine beir
n illegally threatened and arrested an
re prosecuted or Imprisoned by the ager
u. and superintendent. And they deman
a guarantee against such unlawful az
gres,sions In the future.
No l2. They claim and demand that the
Indian doctors be permitted to care Z,
q and doctor and heal their own sic
:, without being subject to the laws
- Iowa, which requires a certihc4te fro
- the state board of medical examiner
:. which state law the agent and superb
!. tendent have been unlawfully enforcii
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