3 Indian families engaged in civilized pursuits 3.... 64,000 45, 800 13, 600 1,017 9,500 14, 250 280,000 1,615, 000 313,000 5,900,000 87,000 26,570 710,000 530,000 81,000 5,272 Produce raised by Government. 1 .bushels.. 10,361 ..do.... 11, 295 ...do.... 26,033 1 Report of Indiau Commissioner, 1884, p. 320. Ibid., 1883, p. 302. 3 Ibid., 1884, p. 302. In the Report of the Commissioner of Indian Affairs for 1884, page 321, will be found a comparative statement showing the increase in Indian productions and property made in five years. Ibid., 1884, p. 321. 6 Ibid., 1884, p. 303. Five civilized tribes.1 Whites unlawfully on reserves..... 4, 100 MISSIONARY STATISTICS OF OTHER THAN THE FIVE CIVILIZED TRIBES. Missionaries 1 129 Church buildings". 236 Amount contributed for education by religions societies 2. $115, 385 $52,706 Civilized tribes. Missionaries! Church buildings1. Amount contributed for education by religious societies2. STATISTICS OF EXPENDITURE AND TRUST FUNDS. 93 178 $13,578 $17,651 Purchase and inspection of annuity goods and supplies.... Advertising expenses and telegraphing 1 Report of Indian Commissioner, 1884, p. 302. 2 Ibid., 1833, p. 284. 496.50 7,581.49 259, 693. 51 263,880.47 15,728.76 246.00 92, 130.67 669, 974. 21 13, 988. 23 $1,354, 660.88 $371,073.79 2, 160, 967.92 24, 803. 12 21, 196. 88 3 Partial A special appropriation for the subsistence of the Arapahoes, Cheyennes, $413,000.00 A like appropriation for the subsistence of the Arickarees, Gros Ventres, and Mandaus, 1884..... For the Assinaboines in Montana, 1834.. 38,000.00 15,000.00 The extinction of game throws some tribes temporarily on the Government for subsistence, so that this class of expenditure can not be expected to disappear entirely for some time to come, though the amount will undoubtedly diminish from year to year, as habits of industry and providence increase among the Indians. Besides the expenditure already stated, the United States annually pays a large sum as interest due certain tribes on stocks and bonds, and trust funds in the Treasury. The amount of Indian trust funds, according to the report of the Commissioner of Indian Affairs for the $112, 341.01 821, 511.59 933, 852.60 The interest on the above paid to or expended for the Indians, viz: On stock and bonds...... On funds in United States Treasury, uninvested Total In the appropriation for "current and contingent expenses of the Indian Department" a part of this sum is included; and it is sometimes forgotten that this money is a payment made to the Indians as an income earned by their own funds, and not bestowed as gratuity. 1 The picture presented by these statistics varies from year to year; happily the change is in the line of self-support and civilization. For later statistics see Report of the Indian Commissioner for 1886. CHAPTER VI. INDIAN EDUCATION. On the 12th of July, 1775, the Continental Congress appropriated $500 for the education of Indian youth at Dartmouth College, New Hampshire.1 The Mohegans declared that year to the commissioners, appointed to treat with the Indians at Albany, "their desire to have teachers and instructors among them which the commissioners promised to report to Congress."" In December of the same year Captain White Eyes, a Delaware chief, being introduced to Congress, the President said: * "We will send you, according to your desire, a minister and a schoolmaster." This promise was renewed on April 10, 1776. Similar requests were made in behalf of the Oneidas.5 Cornplanter, speaking for the Senecas, said to the President: Father, you give us leave to speak our minds concerning the tilling of the ground. We ask you to teach us to plow and to grind corn; to assist us in building saw-mills, and to supply us with broad axes, saws, augers, and other tools, so that we may make our houses more comfortable and more durable; that you will send smiths among us, and, above all, that you will teach our children to read and write, and our women to spin and to weave. The manner of your doing these things for us we leave to you, who understand them; but we assure you that we will follow your advice as far as we are able. Father, you have not asked any security for peace on our part, but we have agreed to send nine Seneca boys, to be under your care for education. Tell us at what time you will receive them, and they shall be sent at the time you shall appoint. This will assure you that we are, indeed, at peace with you, and determined to continue so. If you can teach them to become wise and good men, we will take care that our nation shall be willing to receive instruction from them.6 General Washington replied, through the Secretary of War: You will also inform the Indians how desirous the President of the United States is that the Indians should have imparted to them the blessings of husbandry, and the arts, and of his willingness to receive the young sons of some of their principal chiefs, for the twofold purpose of teaching them to read and write, and to instruct them fully in the arts of husbandry. If they should readily accede to this proposition, you may receive the children to be educated, either at the time of the treaty, or at such other time and place as you may agree." On February 5, 1776, the Committee on Indian Affairs reported: That a friendly commerce between the people of the United Colonies and the Indians, and the propagation of the Gospel, and the cultivation of the civil arts among 'American Archives, 4th series, Vol. II, col. i879. 2 Ibid., 5th series, Vol. I, col. 903. 3 Ibid., 4th series, Vol. III, col 1953. 4 Ibid., Vol. V, col. 1663. Ibid., 5th series, Vol. I, cols. 902, 903. 6 American State Papers, Indian Affairs, Vol. I, p. 144. "Ibid., p. 166. S. Ex. 95-11 161 |