The American Indian in the United States, Period 1850-1914Andover Press, 1914 - 440 strani The present condition of the American Indian; his political history and other topics; a plea for justice. |
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Stran 128 - Indian men. women, and children, with 64» soldiers, were lying dead and wounded on the ground, the tipis had been torn down by the shells and some of them were burning above the helpless wounded, and the surviving handful of Indians were flying in wild panic to the shelter of the ravine, pursued by hundreds of maddened soldiers and followed up by a raking fire from the Hotchkiss guns, which had been moved into position to sweep the ravine. There can be no question that the pursuit was simply a massacre,...
Stran 101 - Heaven and saw God and all the people who had died a long time ago. God told me to come back and tell my people they must be good and love one another and not to fight or steal or lie. He gave me this dance to give to my people.
Stran 141 - An act to provide for the final disposition of the affairs of the Five Civilized Tribes in the Indian Territory, and for other purposes...
Stran 142 - The construction, instead of being strict, is liberal; doubtful expressions, instead of being resolved in favor of the United States, are to be resolved in favor of a weak and defenseless people, who are wards of the Nation and dependent wholly upon its protection and good faith.
Stran 325 - Whites, or the number directly killed by whiskey or disease, but a much more subtle and dreadful thing: it is the gradual but progressive and resistless confiscation of their lands and homes, in consequence of which they are forced to seek refuge in remote and barren localities, often far from water, usually with an impoverished supply of food, and not infrequently, in places where the winter climate is too severe for their enfeebled constitutions.
Stran 254 - Earth. Our land is poor without water. The Government has set still and let our water be stolen, and now the Reclamation Service cinch us tight if Jones bill 6693 become law. "On Ahtanum River divide of our reservation where white man have most land, the Secretary of Interior gives three-fourths of water to white man. Now when Red man have most land to water, he gives nearly all water to -white man. This was done and we could not help ourselves. We want only what is right. God wants the White man...
Stran 220 - Bull. 30—05 5 1,500 of the hostiles to return to the reservation and subsist by their own exertions. The others, about three-fourths of the tribe, refused to settle down to reservation life and repeatedly went on the warpath; when promptly followed by Crook they would surrender and agree to peace, but would soon break their promises. To this officer had been assigned the task of bringing the raiding Apache to terms in cooperating with the Mexican troops of Sonora and Chihuahua. In May, 1883, Crook...
Stran 218 - Cochise, who had repeatedly refused to be confined within reservation limits, fled with his band, but returned in 1871, at which time 1,200 to 1,900 Apache were on the reservation. Complaints from neighboring settlers caused their removal to Tularosa, GO in.
Stran 124 - Sitting Bull's medicine had not saved him, and the shot that killed him put a stop forever to the domination of the ancient regime among the Sioux of the Standing Rock reservation.
Stran 218 - In the follow ing year the Chiricahua res. in Arizona was abolished, and 325 of the Indians were removed to the San Carlos agency; others joined their kindred at Ojo Caliente, while some either remained on the mountains of their old reservation or fled across the Mexican border. This removal of Indians from their ancestral homes was in pursuance of a policy of concentration, which was tested in theChiricahua removal in Arizona. In April, 1877...