Below is a short piece of news about the difficulties in dealing with American Indians.
This in an excerpt from an 1878 edition of the American Missionary which also carried news on native American Indians. As you
can see from the news below, the status of Indians was still an issue in those days. The value of these bits and pieces of information
today is that they show us undigested data about the daily life of people in those days, unlike the history books compiled with the agenda
of their authors. These are still news of the original events, not retrospective views.
In his Annual Report, the Secretary of the Interior says that, respecting the Indians, the great difficulty in dealing with them is that there is no longer any frontier line; they are divided among the whites who are constantly spreading over the Western country. The immense region allotted them, and the strict dividing line between them and the whites, in British America, is the reason the English Government is enabled to manage them so easily.
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Difficulties in Dealing with Indians
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We can make no such restriction, with our growing population. The report recommends as progress toward civilization that the Indians be gathered in smaller reservations and taught agriculture and cattle raising; that small tracts be deeded each one, so that they may have fixed homes; that hunting be discouraged; that proper tribunals of justice be established; that schools be introduced, and attendance by youth made compulsory; that farmers be employed to teach Indians agriculture, and that Indian labor be employed on all reservations.
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