Report Of The Committee To Whom Was Referred So Much Of The Presidents Message As Relates To The Civilization Of The Indian Tribes

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Download or read book Report of the Commissioner of Indian Affairs to the President of the United States written by and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-02-07 with total page 62 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Report of the Commissioner of Indian Affairs to the President of the United States: June 15, 1866; Being Supplementary to the Report of the Commissioners Appointed by the President to Treat With the Indians South of Kansas, and Which Assembled at Fort Smith, Ark;, In September, 1865 All that was done by the commission at Fort Smith, Arkansas, in September last, and how it was done, in discharge of the duty im posed by your order, is already fully reported and published in my annual report for the year 1865, commencing on printed page 296 of that report, to which I beg leave to refer. It will be perceived that the commission was only in part successful, owing, as was asserted by the Indians, and believed by us, to the fact that several of the Ih dian tribes, including the Cherokees, had not been notified that new treaties with them were desired by the government, and that they had not been properly authorized to make treaties by which any of their lands were to be set apart to the United States, for the use of the friendly tribes in Kansas and elsewhere, as contained in para graph No. 5. On page No. 299, of the report above referred to, and that the Cherokee national council must first authorize such a treaty to be made, and appoint the commissioners to make it. No objections were made by the delegation to the several proposi tions, except the want of power and authority in the delegates then present. They promised to return home, and lay these propositions, and all other matters, before their national council, and receive their instructions. NO doubt was then expressed that the council would confer all the necessary power upon a commission to make a treaty. They were then informed that the delegation to make a treaty would be called to Washington city, probably, early in December then next, for that purpose. After your commission ascertained that a full treaty, according to our instructions, could not be made, for the above causes, the commission submitted the articles of a partial treaty, as set forth on pages 301 and 302 of the report above referred to. A copy of which was furnished to each tribe. The Cherokees had from the beginning persistently contended that, although it was true that the treaty of October 7, 1861, was made with the Confederate States, that they had done so under coercion of the rebel army, and that said treaty was not binding, but as to them was null and void. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.