The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1901-11-08
CREEKS ALLEGE BAD FAITH
CHIEF PORTER SAYS GOVERN.
MENT VIOLATED ,nEATY.
A Letter to Tams eixby in Which the
Chief Executive Explains the
Wrongs Being Done the In.
dians.

MuskOgee, /. T., NOV. t--Ohlel TUT
ter OF the Greek nation has written to
Tams Bixby. acting chairman of the
Dawes commission complaining of
bad faith on the part of the govern
pent in connection with the recent
Creek treaty. The communication is
as follows:
In calling the attenuon of your
commission to the effect upon the
Creek people of the slow progress that
has been made in carrying ont the
terms and provisions OF the agreement
between the United states and the
Creek nation of May, %, 1901. | do
not wish TO be understood as attach
ing any blame to your commission
for IT,
when the agreement was through
me presented TO the national council
for it's ratification ! assured the coun-
ell that the terms of the agreement
would be carried on in good faith. and
without unnecessary delay. This did
with the approval of the members OF
YOUR commission and other high oHici
alspf.the United States.
yAfter a majority OF the Creek peo-
PIE had taken allotments and receiv.
ed certificates for the lands selected
by them, their most earnest wish was
that. as soon as practicaOle, deeds for
their allotments should be given TO
them. making their selections and
homes their individual property The
terms of the agreement, section 23
assures them that Immediately after
the ratification of the agreement by
congress and the tribe the secretary
OF the interior shall furnish the princi-
pal chief with blank deeus necessary
for all conveyances herein provided
for, and the principal chief shall there
upon proceed to execute ,ueeds in due
form, and to deliver 60 each citizen
who has selected, or may hereafter
select. his allotment which is not con
tested.
These uncontested allotments were
understood by our people to be CON
firmed by the agreement as the indiv-
idual property of the citizen to whom
. the allotment was made. and every
citizen holding a certificate for an un-
&Qntested allotment felt entitled TO,
anS believed that a deed for his allot-
ment should be Immediately forthcom-
ing. Also that others who should there
after select allotmcnts would imme-
diately receive deeds Therefore In case
of lots in towns, so soon as such towns
We're surveyed and appraised, and full
payment had been made by the pur-
chaser of such town lots, the same as
surance was made to them, that they
SHOULD receive deeds for such town
lots without unnecessary delay.
also the Creek peop:e were assured
that should they ratify the Creek
agree nent that section eight. provid-
ing that the secretary of the inter
ior, through the United States Indian
agent, should Immediately after the
ratification of this agreement, put
each citizen who has made a selection
of his allotment in unrestricted posses
sion of his land and remove therefrom
all persons Objectionable to him, and
when any citizen thereafter made sci
ection Of his allotment, as herein pro-
Sided, and received certificate therefor,
he should be Immediately thereupon
so placed in possession of his land"
The council was further assured
that the manifest errors of dates in
the agreement, depriving some citi-
zens of their equitable rights, and
other provisions that were incomplete
you'd be corrected by a supplemental
agreement and submitted to the
Creek council at its annual October
session. At the annual meeting of the
council on October ! none of these
things hal been done There was no
supplemental agreement as yet to lay
before the council, none having been
completed, and this being the matter
locked forward to by the council as
the only subject of great importance
that the council wouiu have to deal
with the matter of necessary approp-
riations and the discussion of the ills
that this transition period was bring
ing upon them were all that could be
discussed.
y Complaints from all sections of the
lcountry that many allottees were un
able to get possession of their allot
ments, and those who had possession
of thir allotments, in many instances
were subjected to trespasses by non
citizens grazing cattle in the CreeR
country, and the unconfined stock be
longing TO the renters of the allottees
with no adequate remedy against
such trespassers, became fertile sub
iacts and causes of discomfort.