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DOCUMENTS ON THE STATUS
OF NATIVE AMERICANS
IN THE LATE NINETEENTH CENTURY
Book 2
Compiled and Edited by
Leonard Schlup
and
Mary Ann Blochowiak
With a Foreword by
Troy R. Johnson
The Edwin Mellen Press
Lewiston*Queenston#Lampeter
Contents
Bookl
Foreword by Dr. Troy R. Johnson
i
Introduction
Chapter 1
1-10
Documents 1867-69
11-92
1-1.
Treaty of Medicine Lodge Creek, October 21,28, 1867—11
1-2.
Nathaniel G. Taylor to Andrew Johnson, November 22,1867—30
1-3.
Report of the Indian Peace Commission, January 7,1868—32
1-4.
Treaty of Fort Laramie, April 29,1868—69
1-5.
Treaty of Bosque Redondo, June 1,1868—78
1-6.
Speech in the House of Representatives, William Windom, February 27,
1869—85
1-7.
Instructions to the Board of Indian Commissioners, Ely S. Parker and
Ulysses S. Grant, May 26,1869—87
Chapter 2
Documents 1870-79
93-242
2-1.
Editorial, by Cheyenne (Wyoming) Daily Leader, March 9,1870—93
2-2.
Declaration and Appeal to the President, Congress, and People
of the United States, William P. Ross et al, June 6,1870—95
2-3.
Speech at Cooper Union, Red Cloud, July 16,1870—98
2-4.
Annual Message to Congress, Ulysses S. Grant, December 5,1870—101
2-5.
Ely S. Parker to Columbus Delano, March 15,1871—103
2-6.
Christianization of Native Americans, Arizona Citizen, April 22,
1871—106
2-7.
The Peace Policy, Ulysses S. Grant, June 8,1871—107
2-8.
Report of a Visit to Red Cloud, Felix R. Brunot, June 14,1871—108
2-9.
Letter of Resignation, Ely S. Parker, June 29,1871—124
2-10. Ulysses S. Grant to Ely S. Parker, July 13,1871—125
2-11. Ulysses S. Grant to Red Cloud et al., May 28,1872—125
2-12. Response to President Grant's Speech, Red Cloud, May 28, 1872—127
2-13. Annual Report of the Commissioner of Indian Affairs, Francis A. Walker,
November 1,1872—128
2-14. Testimony of Blackfoot, August 11,1873—137
2-15. Henry B. Whipple to Ulysses S. Grant, March 14,1876—141
2-16. Senate Speech, John A. Logan, June 20,1876—143
2-17. E. W. Smith to George A. Custer, June 22,1876—147
2-18. Petition to President Ulysses S. Grant, Stumbling Bear et al., June 23,
1876—149
2-19. Report on the Battle of Little Bighorn, Alfred H. Terry, July 8,1876—151
2-20. An Account of George A. Custer's Defeat at the Little Bighorn, John S.
Poland, July 24, 1876—155
2-21. Native American Friendship and Heroism, Henry Clay Trumbull,
1876—158
2-22. Approval of an Agreement with the Sioux Nation and Others, February 28,
1877—159
2-23. Speech of Crazy Horse, September 5,1877—164
2-24. The Last Day: The Surrender, Yellow Wolf, October 5, 1877—165
2-25. Surrender Speech, Chief Joseph, October 5,1877—170
2-26. Remarks of Spotted Tail, 1877—171
2-27. Hegira of Dull Knife, (Dodge City, Kansas) Ford County Globe,
October 29, 1878—173
2-28. Speech of Chief Joseph, January 14, 1879—174
2-29. An Indian's View of Indian Affairs, Young Joseph and William H. Hare,
April 1879—177
2-30. Speech of Susette La Flesche, November 26,1879—200
2-31. Annual Message to Congress, Rutherford B. Hayes, December, 1,
1879—205
2-32. Speeches of Sarah Winnemucca, December 4,24,
1879—209
2-33. First Days at the Carlisle Indian School, Luther Standing Bear, 1879—210
2-34. United States v. Crook (5 Dillon, 453-469), Judge Elmer S. Dundy,
1879—226
Chapter 3
Documents 1880-89
3-1.
Carl Schurz to Helen Hunt Jackson, January 17,1880—243
3-2.
Helen Hunt Jackson to Carl Schurz, January 22,1880—246
3-3.
Annual Report to the Secretary of the Interior, Carl Schurz,
243-352
November 1,1880—247
3-4.
Sarah Winnemucca to Samuel Jordan Kirkwood, March 28,1881—251
3-5.
Annual Report of the Commissioner of Indian Affairs, Hiram Price,
October 24,1881—252
3-6.
First Message to Congress, Chester A. Arthur, December 6,1881—256
3-7.
Sitting Bull to William Selwyn and the President, 1881—259
3-8.
Senate Speech, Henry M. Teller, 1881—262
3-9.
A Century of Dishonor, Helen Hunt Jackson, 1881—271
3-10. Ex Parte Crow Dog (109 U.S. 556), 1883—277
3-11. Life Among the Paiutes, Sarah Winnemucca Hopkins, 1883—280
3-12. John Elk v. Charles Wilkins (112 U.S. 94), November 3, 1884—281
3-13. United States v. Kagama (118 U.S. 375), May 10, 1886—307
3-14. Sarah Winnemucca to (Winnemucca, Nevada) Silver State, July 9,
1886—313
3-15. Surrender of Geronimo, Oliver O. Howard, September 17,1886—313
3-16. Indian Citizenship, Philip C. Garrett, 1886—316
3-17. General Allotment Act (Dawes Severalty Act), February 8,1887—325
3-18. The English Language and Native American Schools, John D. C. Atkins,
September 21, 1887—332
3-19. Marriage between White Men and Native American Women, August 9,
1888—336
3-20. Annual Message to Congress, Grover Cleveland, December 3,1888—337
3-21. Preston B. Plumb to John W. Noble, August 30,1889—339
3-22. Alice C. Fletcher to Frederic W. Putnam, September 20,1889—341
3-23. The Bote and Sexuality, A. B. Holder, December 7,1889—344
3-24. Directive to Indian Agents and Superintendents of Indian Schools,
December 10,1889—347
3-25. Herbert Welsh to Benjamin Harrison, December 21,1889—348
3 -26. Sitting Bull to Members of the Silent Eaters Society, 18 89—349
Book 2
Chapter 4
Documents 1890-99
353-602
4-1.
Thomas J. Morgan to Henry L. Dawes, January 4,1890—353
4-2.
Preston B. Plumb to Herbert Welsh, January 26,1890—360
4-3.
Sermon to Ghost Dancers, Short Bull, October 31,1890—363
4-4.
The Messiah Letter, 1890—364
4-5.
Letter to Editor of Chicago Tribune, A Sioux Indian, 1890—365
4-6.
The Butchering at Wounded Knee, Black Elk, 1890—366
4-7.
Dissemination of Tales among the Natives of North America, Franz Boas,
January 1891—371
4-8.
Thomas J. Morgan to John W. Noble, January 5,1891—381
4-9.
Account of the Death of Sitting Bull and Attending Circumstances,
James McLaughlin, January 19,1891—392
4-10. Amendment to the Dawes Act, February 28,1891—399
4-11. Thomas J. Morgan to Benj amin Harrison, July 21,1891 —401
4-12. A People Without Law, James Bradley Thayer, November, 1891—404
4-13. Annual Message to Congress, Benjamin Harrison, December 9,
1891^140
4-14. The Ghost Dance and Pine Ridge, Valentine T. O. McGillycuddy,
1891—444
4-15. Address to the People of the United States, Philip C. Garrett and
Herbert Welsh, 1891—452
4-16. Wynema, S. Alice Callahan, 1891—459
4-17. How to Bring the Indian to Citizenship and Citizenship to the Indian,
Herbert Welsh, April 9, 1892—462
4-18. Henry B. Whipple to Benjamin Harrison, August 22,1892—475
4-19. Fighting, Feeding, or Educating Native Americans, Thomas J. Morgan,
1892—476
4-20. Jerome Commission Report, March 3,1893—480
4-21. Speech to Woman's National Indian Association, Daniel M. Browning,
December 6,1893—486
4-22. The Shawnee Prophet and the Peyote Cult, John Rave, 1893—487
4-23. Report of the Dawes Commission, November 20,1894—495
4-24. The Woman's National Indian Association, Amelia S. Quinton,
1894—504
4-25. Assessment of the Cherokee Nation, S. H. Mayes, 1895—509
4-26. Modern Treaty Making with Native Americans, James McLaughlin,
1895—514
4-27. Songs of the Ghost Dance, 1896—518
4-28. Home Life Among the Indians, Alice Cunningham Fletcher,
June 1897—524
4-29. Future of the Red Man, Simon Pokagon, 1897—541
4-30. Assessment of the Dawes Commission, G. M. P. Turner, 1897—553
4-31. Curtis Act, June 28,1898—554
4-32. General Custer's Last Fight as Seen by Two Moons, Hamlin Garland,
September 1898—557
4-33. Our Indian Problem, Lyman Abbott, December 1898—563
4-34. Rising Wolf: Ghost Dancer, Hamlin Garland, January 1899—573
4-35. The Indian on the Reservation, George Bird Grinnell, February
1899—576
4-36. Agreement with the Yankton Sioux, October 2,1899—597
Chapter 5
Documents 1900-01
603-628
5-1.
Impressions of an Indian Childhood, Zitkala-Sa, January 1900—603
5-2.
The Zuni Indians, Matilda Coxe Stevenson, 1901—621
Appendices
629-632
Table 1.
Presidents of the United States—629
Table 2.
Commissioners of Indian Affairs—629
Table 3.
Secretaries of War—630
Table 4.
Secretaries of the Interior—630
Table 5.
Governmental Appropriations for Indian Education—631
Chronology
633-696
Source Notes
697-706
Further Readings
707-708
Index
709-742