Omaha daily bee., 1903-02-08
AFTER BAD INDIAN AGENTS
Indian Rights Association is Pursuing
Crooked Reservation officials.
CHIEF WHITE GHOSTS HOT ARRANGEMENT
He Tells of the Frauds Perpetrated
ON the Red Man at the Crow
Creek Agency in south
Dakota.

WASHINGTON. Feb. 7.--(special) )-The
officers of the Indian Rights association,
who are hot after crooked Indian agents on
the various reservations, are growing i'm
patient at the delays In supplanting the
agents, against whom charges have been
preferred and proved. To show what in
justice is being done the Indians they have
made public the following appeal from
Chief White Ghost for protection for his
tribesmen against the frauds perpetrated
on the Grow Creek agency in South Dakota
with the connivance of the agent there.
Chief white Ghosts Appeal.
CROW CREEK AGENCY, Crow Creek,
s. D.-Friends: Let me relate few of the
troubles to which my people are doomed.
| have dealt with many Indian agents
some good and some bad. The good ones
build up and the bad ones tear down, and
the Indian has 20 suffer.
The present agent, Ii. ID. Chamberlain,
does not help us, but he hihders and makes
us worse by being incompetent, misman-
became our agent he has failed to control
the Indians and does not enforce the regu-
lations and laws OF the reservation, put
encouraged dancing and allowed obsolete
Indian games and gambling 10 revive. so
that our young men lose their money they
get for working. He took us number OF
times last spring and summer to the town
of Chamberlain (S d. for the purpose Of
exhibiting my people at the sunday ex-
| for the excursionists And more, he al
| lows more wandering and going away from
home than IL has been done for many years
/ past. He permits the Indian trader and
| other men to bring many thousand cattle
| into and overun our reservation for grazing
/ and money making speculation, and Will
not adjust damages done TO the Indians
| crops by these cattle, and Will not have
! them taken away These white men leased
here and there quarter section of allotted
! land, then on the strength of that they
| would turn their cattle loose upon the res
| ervation, and our Indian agent protects
! them, and our complaints were not needed
| bN him. He allows and encourages able
bodied Indian men TO lease their home-
, destroys homes that should be improved.
Playing I'm with Cattlemen.
He let white men winter their cattle last
/ winter on the reservation on Unbiased and
tribal lands, and let the beef contractor
where the issue beef cattle were supposed
I to be kept over night for shrinkage, thus
allowing him TO run them in In the mornins
AFTER feeding and watering them, just be-
| fore slaughtering, and on last issue day
poor and diseased cattle were killed and
/ Tor the children TO eat. The cattle had
| had sores on them, and the old women
wa Ia not have the heads Of some OF them
| they were so bad He helps the Indian
! trader TO keep up his stock from govern
ment supplies, and in other ways assists
him in money making schemes. even hold
| ing hack and retaining annuity or interest
payment checks for the Indian trader, and
uprEeCuIlnR and threatening punishment Nl
indians who complain against said IndlaT
/ trader.
This agent bought horses for governmen
use from the Indian trader and permitted
! them TO be kept in the government barr
and fed at government expense before &C
cepting them for several weeks and mos
He uses and does away with government
supplies and represents them as being eX
| Dended as they we're intended. He favor
bad Indians by appointing them 10 POSI-
tions, apparently for personal reasons. on
| man, "A bad Indian. whom he wanted 4
send to the insane asylum last winter an,
| whom he often said ought 10 be dead. wa