Annual Report of the Commissioner of Indian Affairs to the Secretary of the InteriorU.S. Government Printing Office, 1874 |
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Page 140 - Territory ; thence east with said southern boundary line to the place of beginning, shall be, and the same is hereby, set apart for the absolute and undisturbed use and occupation of the Indians herein named, and for such other friendly tribes or individual Indians as from time to time they may be willing, with the consent of the United States, to admit among them...
Page 119 - States, to admit amongst them; and the United States now solemnly agrees that no persons except those herein designated and authorized so to do, and except such officers, agents, and employe's of the government as may be authorized to enter upon Indian reservations in discharge of duties enjoined by law, shall ever be permitted to pass over, settle upon, or reside in the territory described in this article...
Page 320 - SIR : I have the honor to submit this, my second annual report of the superintendency of the Indians of Montana, with the accompanying reports of the different agents located in this Territory.
Page 284 - SIR : I have the honor to submit the following as my annual report for the year ending June 30...
Page 298 - All which tract shall be set apart, and. so far as necessary, surveyed and marked out. for the exclusive use and benefit of said confederated tribes and bands of Indians, as an Indian reservation ; nor shall any white man, excepting those in the employment of the Indian Department, be permitted to reside upon the said reservation without permission of the tribe and the superintendent and agent.
Page 140 - River: thence along said divide to the Snowy Mountains, and along the summit of said Snowy Mountains in a northeasterly direction to a point nearest to the divide between the waters which run easterly to the Muscleshell River and the waters running...
Page 140 - Beginning at a point on the Missouri river opposite to the mouth of the Gasconade river; thence in a direct course so as to strike the river Jeffreon, at the distance of thirty miles from its mouth, and down the said Jeffreon to the Mississippi...
Page 114 - ... Greenwich crosses the south boundary of Montana Territory ; thence north along said 107th meridian to the mid-channel of the Yellowstone river ; thence up said mid-channel of the Yellowstone to the point where it crosses the said southern boundary of Montana, being the 45th degree of north latitude ; and thence east along said parallel of latitude to the place of beginning...
Page 63 - The commission does not consider that a reservation should be looked upon in the light of a pen where a horde of savages are to be fed with flour and beef, to be supplied with blankets from the Government bounty, and to be furnished with paint and gew-gaws by the greed of traders, but that a reservation should be a school of industry and a home for these unfortunate people.
Page 65 - His methods of warfare are such, that we cannot cope with him without resorting to means which are repugnant to civilized people ; and, after spending thousands, or even millions of dollars, on an affair which, at its inception, was but a petty larceny, we make a peace with, the Indians, and enter into an agreement to secure him lands, which we cannot fulfill, and to give him annuities, the expense of which are a burden on the public Treasury.