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Show 136 REPORT OF THE BOARD OF INDIAN COMMISSIONERS. for your money ; it makes you sick an 1 crazy ; your money is gone ; you have nothing in your pocket, nothing on your back ; you get no cattle or horses nothing for it. Will you Jet the man fool you so again? Here is the Duke of York; he signed the treaty. Did he keep it ? I fear not. Ho is a chief. He can look back and see and kno\ v when he did wrong. So all of you know when you do wrong. I want you all to do rig- ht. I want you to see that whisky does you harm. I want you to quit drinking it. That is one of the things the President wanted me to tell you. He has sent a new agent and new men with him. He lias sent men who don't drink or gamble or steal from the Indians ; who will help the Indians; have them get houses and gar. lens, and everything about them comfortable ; will try and get the children into schools. They will do this because the President, wants them to do it. Some men don't want you to reform. They want you to drink whisky, be-cause then, they can get all you have. Which will you help, your friends or your enemies ? The President wants you to hear these men who are here now. There is much I want to say ; but I want to hear your words. I want you to tell me anything you want to say. It will be put on paper and carried to the President. General MrKrcNNEY. 1 am glad to see the Duke of York and his men here, and those from Port Gamble. I hope they will come to this reservation and stay there. I am glad to come here with Mr. Brunot. He came from the President. He sent him to see all the In-dians, and he wants to get your minds. Mr. Cree will put your words on paper, and Mr. Brimot will take it to Washington. I am j.- lad Mr. Bruuot has come. He talked as I have always talked. I always told you it was wrong to drink. I have punished the Indians who bought whisky. I told you it was wrong to gamble. I have told you it was right to dress like white people; to work and save your money, arid to take care of the old people. I am sorry many Indians leave the old people to starve. The Indian who would do so, is worse than the wild beast. I told you it was wrong to flatten the heads of children. It makes them ugly. It kills many, and even if it don't they don't have as much sense as they would otherwise have. I am glad you have no slaves, and glad very few have more than one wife; it is wrong to have more, and you must be married to the one you have; you must gel clothing for her, and she must stay at home and take care of the children, I am giad you have a new agent. He talks to God every day. I hope the Indians will come every Sunday and hear him. I will help him all I can. You are now getting logs and sell-ing them ; soon you will get money. I hope you will build good houses like white people. When an Indian wants a piece of land, Mr. Eels will give it to him, and no other Indian can take it. I want to speak of Temanamus and Temanainus doctors. They are like thieves. They take your money, and do you no good. You have a good doctor ou this reservation, and he will attend on you without charge. Mr. BKUNOT. I spoke of what the Indians had done that was wrong. I did not say so much about what the white men had promised to do that they had not done ; but that is past. There are many of you whom I know, and have heard all about. Here is the Duke of York, who has come from Port Towusend, and has brought his people. He now thinks drinking whisky is bad ; he wants to send his children to school, and wants to do what is right. I like a man who is trying to do right, and I want to shake hands with him. ( The Duke then came up, and shook hands with Mr. Brunot.) FRANK. I am the only one who was at the treaty at Point no Point. I heard what Gov-ernor Stevens said, and I thought it good. I am like a white man, arid think as the white man does. Governor Stevens said all the Indians would grow up, and the President would make them good. He told them all the Indians would become as white men; that all their children would learn to read and write. I was glad to hear it. Governor Stevens told them, I will go out, and have the land surveyed, and it will be yours and your children's forever. I thought that very good. He said a doctor, arid carpenter, and tanner would come. The chiefs thought that was all good ; they thought the President was doing a kindness. I never spoke my mind to anyone; I talk to you because you come from Washington. All the agents talk differently. You talk as Governor Stevens did. I hear what you say. Every agent who conies here, I don't know them. I thought all Governor Stevens said was very good. Perhaps the President thinks all the Indians are good, as they were to be under the treaty. But they are not; they are Indians still. I t think there was plenty of money sent by the President, but I think much did not come hero. Perhaps it gets scattered; really think it does not come. When ir, comes, it is in calico, but I know there is more sent than gets here. Every agent gets rich that comes here. Mr. Hale, the superintendent, got rich off of our money. He bought a steamboat with it. If all your while men knew how poor the Indian is, your hearts would ache, but they feel better when they see you. They tell their complaints, and they will go to the President. All the Indians are glad that you came. These old Indians never came before, but they come to hear you. SPAR, ( the young chief.) When I came here I was young, and did not know much. I was here when the reservation was opened, and know what was done. When the agents came they never taught us anything; never said, go and fix your places. All they think of is to steal, to sell the reservation cattle and the reservation hay; to soil the fruit, and get all they can ; to go and log, and sell them. That is all every agent has done. They never advised us what to do, never helped us. After I had seen all this I was sorry. Did the President send men for this; to come and got what money they could out of the reservation and their |