Annual Report of the Commissioner of Indian Affairs1872 |
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acres agency agent amount Apaches Arizona arrived asked attendance bands become believe belonging better BRUNOT buildings called Camp charge chiefs citizens civilization claims clothing Commissioner condition council crops cultivation dated Department desire fact farm Father friends furnished give given Government Grant guardian hands heart hope houses hundred improvements Indian Affairs instructions interest John keep labor land live located means meet Mexico miles mission mountains necessary never officers parties past peace persons portion present President promised protection raised received referred regard remain removal reservation respectfully River scrip Secretary sent soon superintendent supply taken talk teacher tell Territory things tion told treaty tribe United Valley wards Washington wish
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Seite 324 - I have the honor to submit my annual report for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1871.
Seite 588 - SIR: — I have the honor to submit herewith my annual report for the year 1914.
Seite 252 - Superior, shall be entitled to eighty acres of land, to be selected by them under the direction of the president, and which shall be secured to them by patent in the usual form.
Seite 673 - civilization fund," to be used, under the direction of the Secretary of the Interior, for the education and civilization of Indian tribes residing within the limits of the United States.
Seite 71 - ... my women and children have been killed before my face, and I have been unable to defend them. Most Indians in my place would take a knife and cut his throat, but I will live to show these people that all they have done, and all they can do, shall not make me break faith with you, so long as you will stand by us and defend us, in a language we know nothing of, to a great governor we never have nor never shall see.
Seite 70 - They had so won on me. that from my first idea of treating them justly aud honestly as an officer of the Army, I had come to feel a strong personal interest in helping to show them the way to a higher civilization. I had come to feel respect for men who, ignorant and naked, were still ashamed to lie or steal, and for women who would work cheerfully like slaves to clothe themselves and children, but, untaught, held their virtue above price.
Seite 84 - I respectfully forward the following description of the proposed Indian reservation in Arizona. The boundaries of the reservation to be as follows, as shown in red on the accompanying map : Starting at the point of intersection of the boundary between New Mexico and Arizona, with the south edge of the Black Mesa, and following the southern edge of the Black Mesa to a point due north of Sombrero or Plumoso Butte, then...
Seite 557 - ... discovered in time to cause the boy's arrest at the next stopping-place. He was brought before my father, a justice of the peace, and the case being made out the boy was committed; but the boy had asked that the case be held open till he could send for his uncle Abraham Lincoln to defend him. Meanwhile he was committed to jail to await the action of the grand jury. "Not long after this occurrence I attended a meeting held at Urbana, the county seat at which Mr.
Seite 335 - GENERAL : In compliance with your request, I have the honor to submit the...
Seite 44 - The Apaches at once showed that they could imitate their more civilized brothers. Immediately a band of them went in search of the other company of trappers, who, of course, were utterly unconscious of Johnson's infernal work. They were attacked, unprepared, and nearly all killed ; and then the story that the Apaches were treacherous and cruel went forth into all the land, but nothing of the wrongs they had received.