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Show 7n., -10- Ohief Sowawick, who is about eighty years old and entirely blind, til a message to me that he would like to have me call at his house Still before I left the agency, and on Friday, the 15th inst., in ponse to his invitation, I visited him to say gooi-b^e, whereupon he ">.*«ih assured me that the promise made by the White i?J.ver utes to place ',,,rir children in school would be faithfully kept, and unless the White x HVnr utes are very different from any of the wilder tribes of Indians, 7 **$H whom I am acquainted, they will certainly keep this'promise, and A- | A ; *'w strongly inclined to the belief that they will carry it out. As to the withholding of rations and anr.uties from %ho3e Indians, u order to induce them to send their children to school, I submit, ,7 * ftjr opinion, that from what I learn, of the utes during my three weeks - MV>iUrn among them, it would not bring about the desired result and the "X.ct upon them would be unsatisfactory. Many of them live very |, -'-^tant from the agencies and do not come after theirations very Zs |»W fy "fluently, and some of the more obstinate would be pleased to be | ^Xirlved of their rations so that they might pose as martyrs for holding | v'^ in their Indian ways. Such would also give them an excuse to go I "^V\ hunting,'and, in my judgment, if it should be determined to withhold 7,\^4ons and annuities from parents who do not send their children to '^Vooi, to make it effective, all Indians of the agency would have to :, ** thus deprived and the innocent thus made to suffer with the guilty I | i\s*F. „vjw r e a 3 o n that issues made regularly to those whose children were I ^ school they would share with their less favored kinsmen and those j K, ^7"'rlved of such issues would live upon their relative:, who were *%&&!,ving their regular allowance at stated intervals,, Should the Indians still hold back their children from schools .after tei I promises they have made to me,and coercive measures be determined |
