Official Relations Between the United States and the Sioux IndiansThe University, 1896 - 162 עמודים |
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מונחים וביטויים נפוצים
1st Sess acres act of March Affairs for 1891 agencies agreement agricultural allotted in severalty allottees American State Papers annually for twenty annuities appropriations Article authorized bands Blackfeet Brulé buffalo ceded cession Cheyenne River chiefs citizenship civilization Commissioner of Indian Cong Congress Crow Creek Devil's Lake dians Docs February 28 fee simple fifty frontiers Government Harney hostile hundred hunting Ibid Indian Affairs Indian Agent Indian country Indian policy Indian tribes Interior Land in Severalty legislation Lewis and Clark located Lower Brulé Mdewakantonwan ment military posts Minneconjou Minnesota Mississippi Sioux Missouri necessary patents peace policy Pine Ridge President purpose receive removal policy Report of Commissioner reservation Rosebud Sans Arc Santee Santee Sioux schools Secretary settle Sisseton Sitting Bull Statutes at Large subsistence territory thousand dollars tion trade treaty of 1851 tribal tribe or nation U. S. Statutes various tribes Wahpekute Wahpeton whites Yanktonnais Yanktons
קטעים בולטים
עמוד 14 - They occupy a territory to which we assert a title independent of their will, which must take effect in point of possession when their right of possession ceases. Meanwhile they are in a state of pupilage. Their relation to the United States resembles that of a ward to his guardian.
עמוד 13 - While the different nations of Europe respected the rights of the natives, as occupants, they asserted the ultimate dominion to be in themselves ; and claimed and exercised, as a consequence of this ultimate dominion, a power to grant the soil, while yet in the possession of the natives. These grants have been understood by all, to convey a title to the grantees, subject only to the Indian right of occupancy.
עמוד 22 - ... without remote aid. It will relieve the whole state of Mississippi, and the western part of Alabama, of Indian occupancy, and enable those states to advance rapidly in population, wealth, and power. It will separate the Indians from immediate contact with settlements of whites; free them from the power of the states; enable them to pursue happiness in their own way, and under their own rude institutions; will retard the progress of decay, which is lessening their numbers; and perhaps cause them...
עמוד 94 - Indians occupying or interested in the same; and no cession by the tribe shall be understood or construed in such manner as to deprive, without his consent, any individual member of the tribe of his rights to any tract of land selected by him, as provided in Article VI of this treaty.
עמוד 23 - President solemnly to assure the tribe or nation with which the exchange is made, that the United States will forever secure and guarantee to them, and their heirs or successors, the country so exchanged with them...
עמוד 12 - But, as they were all in pursuit of nearly the same object, it was necessary, in order to avoid conflicting settlements, and consequent war with each other, to establish a principle, which all should acknowledge as the law by which the right of acquisition, which they all asserted, should be regulated as between themselves. This principle was, that discovery gave title to the government by whose subjects, or by whose authority, it was made, against all other European governments, which title might...
עמוד 22 - It puts an end to all possible danger of collision between the authorities of the General and State Governments on account of the Indians. It will place a dense and civilized population in large tracts of country now occupied by a few savage hunters.
עמוד 93 - ... to hunt on any lands north of North Platte, and on the Republican Fork of the Smoky Hill river, so long as the buffalo may range thereon in such numbers as to justify the chase.
עמוד 42 - To each head of a family, one-quarter of a section; To each single person over eighteen years of age, one-eighth of a section...
עמוד 94 - Indian territory, and also stipulates and agrees that no white person or persons shall be permitted to settle upon or occupy any portion of the same; or without the consent of the Indians first had and obtained, to pass through the same...