Proposed Indian Policy1881 - 113 էջ "The only alternative which civilization offers to the Indians is gradual absorption or extermination. There is no middle ground between these two extremes. But before they can be absorbed they must be led to civilization and citizenship. After that they will in time gradually assimilate with the general population and thus cease to be a separate and distinct race." Page 1. |
From inside the book
Արդյունքներ 10–ի 1-ից 5-ը:
Էջ 45
... Indians camped at Sand Creek . At this time most of the braves were absent , and there were in camp about six hundred Indians , the majority being squaws and old men and children . As soon THE CHIVINGTON MASSACRE . 45.
... Indians camped at Sand Creek . At this time most of the braves were absent , and there were in camp about six hundred Indians , the majority being squaws and old men and children . As soon THE CHIVINGTON MASSACRE . 45.
Էջ 50
... camp of " Dog Soldiers and Cheyennes , " says : " The prisoners report it to be the only body of Indians known on the Republican . It is the same that fought Forsyth and all other parties on the Republican last year . " Now let us ...
... camp of " Dog Soldiers and Cheyennes , " says : " The prisoners report it to be the only body of Indians known on the Republican . It is the same that fought Forsyth and all other parties on the Republican last year . " Now let us ...
Էջ 51
... camp of Black Kettle , and after a desperate fight , in which Black Kettle was assisted by the Arapahoes under Little Raven , and the Kiowas under Satanta , captured the entire camp , killing the Chief , Black Kettle , and one hun- dred ...
... camp of Black Kettle , and after a desperate fight , in which Black Kettle was assisted by the Arapahoes under Little Raven , and the Kiowas under Satanta , captured the entire camp , killing the Chief , Black Kettle , and one hun- dred ...
Էջ 54
... camp of Mountain Chief , who , I understood , was camped four miles below . After marching sixteen miles I found a camp of seven lodges that had been abandoned in great haste , leaving everything . The result of the expedition is , 173 ...
... camp of Mountain Chief , who , I understood , was camped four miles below . After marching sixteen miles I found a camp of seven lodges that had been abandoned in great haste , leaving everything . The result of the expedition is , 173 ...
Էջ 55
... camp was suffering severely with small - pox , having had it among them for two months . " When the details of this shameful butchery became known the Press resounded with denunciations ; but no word of reproach ever came from Gen ...
... camp was suffering severely with small - pox , having had it among them for two months . " When the details of this shameful butchery became known the Press resounded with denunciations ; but no word of reproach ever came from Gen ...
Այլ խմբագրություններ - View all
Common terms and phrases
acres cultivated agencies agents agitation appointed Arapahoes army attack Black Kettle boarding-school body camp Century of Dishonor Cherokee Nation Chivington Choctaws citizens citizenship clerk command Commissioners Committee condition Congress Congressional consider corn Crazy Horse Creek criminal Custer D. W. Bushyhead dians district Dull Knife's Band duties effort ernment evil extermination fact Federal Government five civilized tribes Fort Lyon Fort Robinson give hostile hundred Indian affairs Indian Bureau Indian policy Indian population Indian Territory individual killed lands in severalty laws legislation letter Lieut live log houses massacre ment Mountain Chief's murder National Council never Northern Cheyennes officers party peace persons Piegans political President Principal Chief prisoners promised proposed punished question race regulate reservations right to roam scalped schools Secretary self-government Seminoles Senate Sheridan Sherman soldiers squaws Superintendent Tahlequah tion treaty troops United village War Department warriors women and children wrong
Սիրված հատվածներ
Էջ 29 - Choctaw nation of red people the jurisdiction and government of all the persons and property that may be within their limits west, so that no Territory or State shall ever have a right to pass laws for the government of the Choctaw nation of red people and their descendants ; and that no part of the land granted them shall ever be embraced in any territory or State...
Էջ 29 - Territory, so long as such rights shall remain unextinguished by treaty between the United States and such Indians, or to include any territory which, by treaty with any Indian tribe, is not, without the consent of said tribe, to be included within the territorial limits or jurisdiction of any State or Territory...
Էջ 29 - The Government and people of the United States are hereby obliged to secure to the said Choctaw Nation of Red People the jurisdiction and government of all the persons and property that may be within their limits west...
Էջ 8 - withering" or ferce naturae theory is proved absolutely false, and that though some temporary retrogradation must always be expected among individual tribes at the crisis of their transition from savagery or barbarism to more civilized habits, yet now, the number of our Indians is on the increase and will naturally so continue, unless repressed by causes not attributable to civilization, but to criminal misgovernment, until their final absorption into the wondrous amalgam of all earth's peoples,...
Էջ 58 - I was content to know I had positive proof they were so. I had ceased to have any fears of their leaving here, and only dreaded for them that they might at any time be ordered to do so. They frequently expressed anxiety to hear from the general, that they might have confidence to build for themselves better houses, but would always say, " You know what we want, and if you can't see him you can write and do for us what you can.
Էջ 58 - 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.
Էջ 60 - 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 and never shall see.
Էջ 59 - Many of the men whose families had all been killed when I spoke to them and expressed sympathy for them were obliged to turn away unable to speak and too proud to show their grief.
Էջ 43 - Almighty originates, when in their appointed time He wills that one race of men — as in races of lower animals — shall disappear off the face of the earth and give place to another race...
Էջ 29 - Cherokee nation in the foregoing article shall, in no future time without their consent, be included within the terriorial limits or jurisdiction of any State or Territory. But they shall secure to the Cherokee nation the right by their national councils to make and carry into effect all such laws as they may deem necessary...