The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1912-05-15
Indians Memorial to Congress
Charges That Whites lamp
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GOVERNMENT REFUSED TO
PAY FOR LANDS TAKEN
Complaints Say Some Indians
Never Received Payments, Al
though Senator Jones Assured
Money Had Been Sent

Another memorial to congress from
the Indians of the United States,
through the brotherhood of North
American indians, is reported from
Washington, in which the Indians in
picturesque language protest against
what they consider violation of
treaties made with them by the gov
eminent.
The Klckitats, the Yakimas, the
Colville tribe and the Walla Wallas of
/ Washington, the Bannock tribe In
idaho, the Chippewas on the Bad
River reservation In Wisconsin, the
Navajos and various other tribes and
bands have grievances and these
grievances are set forth in the me-
mortal.
The general charge made by the In
dams is that the United States gov
eminent has failed to carry out or en-
force the provisions in various treaties
and agreements entered into with the
Indians, but each tribe sets forth in
the mem orial some specific grievance
for which it demands redress.
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Skookum Wallahee, Joseph Stayhie
md Charles Parker, Klickitat Indians
in the state of Washington, couch
their protest in particularly poetic
terms: Long ago, when this world
was created reads their contribution
to the memorial when there was nc
one here but the red man, there were
also created the red salmon to run in
the rivers, the red deer to run in the
mountains, and the camas root in the
valleys to provide food for the red
man. All this time we were happy
We lived our own way and hunted the
deer and caught the fish, dug the
camas root and picked huckleberries
and were very happy. The white man
carle and drove us from our lands;
toll us that we could not hunt the
red Ter or catch the red salmon OF
dig the camas root or pick the buckle
berries. Now our people are threat
ened with arrest and punishment il
they catch salmon, as our people al.
ways have, and if they hunt the red
deer; and we are told that the noun
tains which we thought We're our own
TO hunt in and to camp in the sum-
mer are to be sold and taken away
from us. The white man has even
changed the color of the fish in our
streams by Introduction of new kinds
called the white salmon, and we want
you to see if we cannot be left in
peace.
No Schools for Children
There are about 100 of our people
who never received any help from the
government who do not receive any
moneys, and who have taken home
steads in our little neighborhood. We
have no schools furnished us by the
government or any schools of any
kind and our young people are not
being fitted for the duties of citizens
of the United States, except as we are
able to teach them ourselves"
James Barnard, chief of the Sol
villes and their spokesman, is more
specific in his charge. Some time
ago the Indians in the northern coun-
try made treaty and the whites di-
vided my reservation-cut it in two, .
he declares. Here is another treaty
that was made in early times: There
is a strip of land about. six miles wide
running down To what is called Spo-
kane river The government made a
treaty for this six-mile strip and the
| money was never paid. In those days
the old-time chiefs did not have any
education and had not learned the
ways of the government. so when the
| treaty expired they did not make any
move to renew ii. The people who
made the treaty are all gone It was
made in 1891 for one part OF oul
/ reservation for sl.500.600.
Contract Disappeared
Shortly after the treaty was made
some lawyers came in there ant
signed u kind Of contract for the col