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Title: The Indian Question (1874)

Author: Francis A. Walker

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THE INDIAN QUESTION.

BY

FRANCIS A. WALKER,

LATE U. S. COMMISSIONER OF INDIAN AFFAIRS.

BOSTON:
JAMES R. OSGOOD AND COMPANY,
(LATE TICKNOR AND FIELDS, AND FIELDS, OSGOOD, & CO.)
1874.

Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1874 by
F. A. WALKER,
In the Office of the Librarian of Congress at Washington.

BOSTON
RAND, AVERY, & CO., STEREOTYPERS AND PRINTERS.

CONTENTS.

PAGE
THE INDIAN QUESTION 5

INDIAN CITIZENSHIP 101

AN ACCOUNT OF THE TRIBES 148

THE INDIAN QUESTION.[A]

On the 3d of March, 1871, Congress declared that "hereafter no Indian
nation or tribe within the territory of the United States shall be
acknowledged or recognized as an independent nation, tribe, or power,
with whom the United States may contract by treaty."

Brave words these would have seemed to good William Penn, treating with
the Lenni Lenape, under the elm at Kensington; or even to doughty Miles
Standish, ready as that worthy ever was to march against the heathen who
troubled his Israel. Heathen they were in the eyes of the good people of
Plymouth Colony, but nations of heathen, without question, as truly as
were the Amalekites, the Jebusites, or the Hittites to the infant colony
at Shiloh. It would have been deemed the tallest kind of "tall talk," in
the councils of Jamestown, Providence, and Annapolis, to express
disdain for the proffered hand of Indian friendship, or even to o