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Show REPORT OF THE BOARD OF INDIAN COMMISSIONERS. 139 cannot help him much. About the log's, there is one thing 1 I want to explain : These logs belong to all the Indians on the reservation. It is wrong tor the agent to take the logs, un-less he spends the money received for them for you. Some of you are logging, some are not. Those who work get their share. I hope all will work and get the good of it. About tho treaty : It was made twelve years ago. It was to remain twenty years. It has eight years to run. The first five years the Indians were to get $ 6,000 in annuities. Every five years to get less. Now it is $ 2, 400. That was to be given as the President thought best for the In-dians. The President sent all the $ 5,000 all that belongs to the Indians and you say " it was lost by the way." If I was to get certain things each year I would keep them. Same Indians traded them off. You got many things you forget about, but I hope you will keep what you get after this. The President is sorry you did not get what you ought to have gotten. I hope what is coming you will get. In eight years the treaty will be done. In the last five years all the Indians will get will be what $ 1,600 will buy. It is not much for so many, but when that is done you will not get any more. There will be no more agents, farmers, and teachers. You must get those things yourselves. You must worlc while the treaty lasts, so that you will be like white men when it is done. About the school : You must send your children, and they must stay at school. They must learn to work, as well as to read and write and spell. They must work in the garden, and help to raise something to eat. John said that the goods that were sent were not good. The goods did not come from Washington. The money came from there and the superintendent had to buy the goods. They got cheated, and the Indians got bad goods. I hope when goods come again they will be better, and that the Indians will take care of them. I want you to work and buy what you want. I will take what you say to Washington. I do not know what the President will say about it, but I hope he will send a man to mark out your reservation. I know he will hear what the Duke of York said, and what the others said. Many white men say it is not worth while to listen to what you say; some Indians are so. If I thought all Indians were that way, would I come and talk to you ? When the Pres-ident hears what you promise to do, I want him to believe it ; I am going to be lieve it. But when I find afterward that some are no better, I will be sorry. I will hear about you, and T hope I will hear that you have farms and houses, and are helping Mr. Eels to keep you. My heart is glad to see so many dressed like white men, and the friends of Indians will be glad when I tell them at Washington. About wives: I hope you will re-inember it is only good to have one wife, and I hope Mr. Eels will get a clergyman, and you will come and be married in the white man's way. The Duke of York was promised a house if he came. There are three buildings up for him at Euati. I will find out more about it. General McKenney has asked at Washington that you have that laud. I will ask the same. DUKE OF YORK. General McKenney knows about those houses ; they are small. I want a big house, like theirs. I ought to have a house with a fireplace in it like a white mau's. The council here adjourned. THOS. K. CREE, Clerk. APPENDIX A |
