Condition of the Indian Tribes: Report of the Joint Special Committee, Appointed Under Joint Resolution of March 3, 1865 : with an AppendixU.S. Government Printing Office, 1867 - 542 páginas Considers (38) S. 188. |
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1st cavalry acres agency annuities Answer Apaches Arapahoes Arizona Assistant Adjutant band Bosque Redondo Brigadier Burleigh camp Canby Captain 1st captured CARLETON Carson cattle Cheyennes chiefs Chivington Colonel Chivington Colorado Colorado Territory Comanches Commanding COMMISSARY OF SUBSISTENCE corn creek crop depredations dians dollars ERASTUS farm flour Fort Craig Fort Lyon Fort Stanton Fort Sumner Fort Wingate Governor HEADQUARTERS DEPARTMENT honor horses hostile hundred Indian affairs Indian agent infantry California volunteers JAMES H killed land letter Lieutenant LORENZO THOMAS Los Pinos Lyon Major Wynkoop March Mexicans Mexico volunteers miles military mules N. M. Official Navajo country Navajo Indians obedient servant officer party peace Pinos ploughs Pounds prisoners purchased Question reservation respectfully river Santa Fé sent sheep Sioux soldiers Sumner superintendent of Indian sworn Territory thousand told trader treaty tribes troops Washington Wingate WOOD Yankton
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Página 306 - September 23, 1862. CAPTAIN : I have the honor to report, for the information of the colonel commanding...
Página 101 - There is to be no council held with the Indians, nor any talks. The men are to be slain whenever and wherever they can be found. The women and children may be taken as prisoners, but, of course, they are not to be killed.
Página 89 - I want you to give all these chiefs of the soldiers here to understand that we are for peace, and that we have made peace, that we may not be mistaken by them for enemies. I have not come here with a little wolf bark, but have come to talk plain with you. We must live near the buffalo or starve.
Página 55 - ... in going over the battle-ground the next day I did not see a body of man, woman, or child but was scalped, and in many instances their bodies were mutilated in the most horrible manner...
Página 57 - For this the Great Father is angry, and will certainly hunt them out and punish them; but he does not want to injure those who remain friendly to the whites. He desires to protect and take care of them.
Página 85 - Indians had committed acts of hostility towards the whites ; but no effort seems to have been made by the authorities there to prevent these hostilities, other than by the commission of even worse acts. The hatred of the whites to the Indians would seem to have been inflamed and excited to the utmost; the bodies of persons killed at a great distance — whether by Indians or not...
Página 107 - ... when I propose to punish the Navajo Indians for their recent murders and wholesale robberies. It is not practicable with my present force and amount of means to make effective demonstrations on more than one tribe at a time. It may be set down as a rule that these Navajo Indians have long since passed that point when talking would be of any avail.
Página 200 - The main object is to have the Utes commit themselves in hostility to the Indians of the plains, that there may be less chance for them to join in any league which the latter Indians may attempt to make for a general war by all the Indians between the mountains and the Missouri upon the whites. Your knowledge of the haunts of the Indians of the plains...
Página 10 - Indians who is guilty of bringing liquor into said reservation, or who drinks liquor, may have his or her proportion of the annuities withheld from him or her for such time as the President may determine.
Página 165 - ... the useful metals. I beg to impress upon your mind, general, that the government should at once take some action for the immediate support and the prospective advancement of the Navajees.