Annual Report of the Board of Indian Commissioners to the Secretary of the Interior (Volume 27)

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. 1896 edition. Excerpt: ...out in practice; and among some of these measures--as, for example, the settling of the Indians on lands in sevei alty--there is not so much need now of urging more rapid advance as there is a call for more care in carrying them out. There needs now the uplifting wing and the guiding pinion rather than the undue stirring up of the nest. The Indians once roamed over these broad lands. They had no right to more than their share; but the white man has crowded them out, often by fraud and sometimes with violence. The Indian has retaliated, and the blood of both races Las watered the mountain and the valley. The Indians are now few. They will come into the stream of American lile. not in a strong current, marking its progress by a. separate tinge in the wateis, but they will come rather as the raindrops fall on the surface, to be absorbed and lost to sight, or, as the poet has said, like the snowfall in the river, a moment white, then melts forever. The Indian will be lost in the man. When the last Indian--there will be a last one--stands on ibe banks of the stream and looks over the hills aud valleys of the land once the home of his race, we hope he will be able to say, The white man has been cruel; he is now strong, and at the last he has done justly and kindly by the remnant of our race. On motion, it was voted that the time limited for speakers should he strictly observed. The remainder of the meeting was given to brief addresses by different persons. The first speaker was Mr. 0. K. Boyd, who, instead of making an address, read the following extracts from letters which he had received on this subject: Rev M. F. Trippe, Salamanca, N. Y.. reports: This field comprises four reservations, three of them in New York State and nne in Pennsylvania, ...