This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1921 edition. Excerpt: ..."an addition to the consideration which would otherwise content the Indians," by which the treasury of the United States had been heavily taxed.6 The effect on the Indians was to encourage the more reckless and dissolute in extravagant expenditure. But the practice of liquidating Indian "credits" had become ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1921 edition. Excerpt: ..."an addition to the consideration which would otherwise content the Indians," by which the treasury of the United States had been heavily taxed.6 The effect on the Indians was to encourage the more reckless and dissolute in extravagant expenditure. But the practice of liquidating Indian "credits" had become traditional, and whenever an Indian treaty was appointed the traders swarmed to the gathering place with their claims, big and little.6 More important than the claims themselves or the amount of them was the long existence of an unwritten law that unless some proportion of claims was allowed and provided for there would be no treaty. The reasons why the influence of traders was so great as to enable them to bring the Indians to a treaty rendezvous or to keep them away at their pleasure have already been given. On this occasion the traders with the Sioux desired a treaty and a cession of lands, provided some liberal sums should be diverted to their hands.7 There was another body of persons more numerous, possessing perhaps less influence with the Indians, but still far too influential to be neglected. These were the half-breeds or mixed-bloods, among whom were some men and women of intelligence, education and gentle breeding. To secure the influence of an element which might prevent the negotiation of a treaty, or at least of a favorable one, it was necessary and it had become customary to provide a donation to the "breeds." In this case the Sioux half-breeds were quite willing to lend their aid to a treaty; the more so, as they had a long-standing claim which they greatly desired to have adjusted. Reference is here made to the grant of 1830 to Sioux half-breeds, known as theWabasha Reservation, the advantage of which they had for twenty years...
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