Indians at Work, Volumes 10-131942 - Indians of North America |
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Page 26 - The utmost good faith shall always be observed towards the Indians; their lands and property shall never be taken from them without their consent...
Page 25 - SAVAGES we call them, because their manners differ from ours, which we think the perfection of civility ; they think the same of theirs. Perhaps, if we could examine the manners of different nations with impartiality, we should find no people so rude, as to be without any rules of politeness ; nor any so polite, as not to have some remains of rudeness. The Indian men, when young, are hunters and warriors ; when old...
Page 26 - ... be invaded or disturbed, unless in just and lawful wars authorized by Congress ; but laws founded in justice and humanity, shall, from time to time, be made, for preventing wrongs being done to them, and for preserving peace and friendship with them.
Page 27 - The chief causes of decrease, in order of importance, may be classed as smallpox and other epidemics; tuberculosis; sexual diseases; whisky and attendant dissipation; removals, starvation and subjection in unaccustomed conditions ; low vitality due to mental depression under misfortune ; wars. In the category of destroyers all but wars and tuberculosis may be considered to have come from the white man, and the increasing destructiveness of tuberculosis itself is due largely to conditions consequent...
Page 25 - Limits to be ascertained and secured to them; their Land not to be encroached on, nor any private or Colony Purchases made of them hereafter to be held good ; nor any Contract for Lands to be made, but between the Great Council of the Indians at Onondaga and the General Congress. The Boundaries and Lands of...
Page 22 - Horse sneaked around until he could talk to the girl again, and he asked her to run away with him. He told her he thought he would just fall over and die if she did not. But she said she would not do that; she wanted to be bought like a fine woman. You see she thought a great deal of herself too. That made High Horse feel so very sick that he could not eat a bite, and he went around with his head hanging down as though he might just fall down and die any time. Red Deer was another young fellow, and...
Page 26 - Indians shall also be ascertained and secured to them in the same manner, and persons appointed to reside among them in proper districts ; who shall take care...
Page 12 - Let me be a free man — free to travel, free to stop, free to work, free to trade, where I choose, free to choose my own teachers, free to follow the religion of my fathers, free to think and talk and act for myself — and I will obey every law, or submit to the penalty.