The watchman and southron. (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, December 05, 1894, Image 8
WEDNESDAY* DEC, 5, 1894.
Unique Indian History.
* Interesting Events Connected with
the Remnants of Indian Tribes
in Some of the Thirteen Original
States.
To the Editor of The Sunday
News : We are so accustomed to
regarding the Indians as an entirely
vanishing race that it will doubtless
surprise many of my readers to learn
that a volume of real interest, if not
considerable historical value, could
be compiled about events of Indian
history which have occurred, xtariug
the last quarter of a century in con?
nection with the remnants cf Indian
tribes in some of the thirteen ori
. ginal States I will tell- of a few of
these events herfe. and., will not go
back quite ?fteea^??rs. Those who
are fond of what ls unique may not
find this article uninteresting.
On May 15, 1880, a scene occurred
in the? State B?us?'at Providence,
E. I., which might well have been
sketched - by some eminent artist.
It was a meeting between a commis?
sion on the part of Rhode Islaud and
the council of the Narragansett Tribe
of Indians, which council consisted
of five men, one of whom, Gideon L.
Ammons, was an -old man of between
65 and TO years. Governor Little
field and other State Officials were
present. The Indian council quit?
claimed "unto tlie State of Rhode
Island and Providence Plantations"
the rights of the tribe and all the
common tribal lands, except the
Indian meeting house and lot. The
State afterwards paid the sum of $5,
000 to the Narragansetts When the
tribal relations were broken np the
Indians became citizens of Rhode Is?
land.
On a bright and tranquil autumnal
- day, October 9, 1884, Red Jacket
and his compatriots were reinterred
in the beautiful Forest Lawn Ceme?
tery, ot Buffalo. This re-interment
was done by Indians under the aus?
pices of the patriotic Buffalo His?
torical Society and was witnessed by
an immense crowd. One of the
features of the occasion was a chant
in : the Onondaga tongue sung in
long, low mournful tones by Chief
John Buck, a Canadian Onondaga.
Other Indians joined in the chorus,
the last line of which, being trans?
lated into English, meant "Thus we
are become miserable *' Ten times
in that chorus occurred the pathetic
word "hain/* which signifies "woe."
The chant waa repeated again later
on. Another feature o? the re-inter?
ment was a speech in the Seneca lan?
guage, made by Chief John Jacket,
after the remains had been lowered.
Chief Jacket is a grandson of the
great orator and is himself a promi?
nent Seneca of New York State. On
this mournful occasion he was attired
in native costume. I have not given
a full account of the re-interment,
only touched on some of its features.
A number of Indians were present;
several of whom were from Canada;
among the New York Indians pre?
sent besides Jacket, were Gen. Ely
S. Parker, the distinguished chief
sachem of the Iroquois in that State
and military ex-secretary to U. S.
Grant, also Chief John Mountpleas
ant,. of the Toscaroras.
In January, 1887.. Tom Morrison,
chief of the Catawbae, was in Colum?
bia looking iuto some ord land claims
of his tribe. The Catawba reserva?
tion is situated in York County and
comprises 732 acres more or lees.
In the summer of 1889 a case oc?
curred in a South Carolina Court
which could not fail to ca. j the mind
back to the old Colonial times, the
days when the Catawbas were a
great nation and the Georges of
"merrie England" wielded the scep?
tre and ruled over this land. The
case occurred at Yorkville, and was
the trial of a white man from North
Carolina for assaulting a Catawba
Indian with intent to kill. He was
acquitted.
In the year 1S92 Gen. T. J. Mor?
gan then commissioner of Indian
affairs, visited most of the Iroquois
reservations in New York State It
appears that with the exception of
one reservation no commissioner of
Indian affairs had ever visited these
reservations before. The red people
appreciated the honor shown them by
Gen. Morgan, who, upon each |
reservation that he visited, had an i
interesting conference with repre- j
sentative Indians. On these occa- ?
sons he made practical addresses to j
the Indians, in which he spoke I
earnestly on Indian education. Good j
was accomplished by these addresses. I
According to last year's report made
by the United States Indian agent of!
New York ihe reservations of the
Iroquois (who are the Six Nations)!
in that State numbered over SG,00? :
acres, on which lived something over \
4 900 Indians Besides tiiese there j
were a large number of Oneidas j
(who are also Iroquois) that were j
citizens of the Stale.
The Pamuukey Indians, of Virginia \
in a paper dated their reservation !
June 26, l?9o, authorized one of j
their number, named Terrill Bradby, :
"to visit the Indian bureau in Wash?
ington and in all other ?departments
and Indian tribes, and also to visit
the Columbian Exposition in Chi?
cago.'7 This interesting "State
paper" was signed by fourteen names j
the first of which was C. S. Bradby, j
chief of the tribe. !
I could give other incidents, one
of which (about the Catawbas) be?
longs to the present year, but the
above is sufficient to show what inter?
esting events are connected with the
remnants of Indian tribes in some of
the old settled states. *
MCDONALD FURUAN.
Ramsey, Sumter County, Oct. 26,
11894.
Dr. Samps Pope has made good
j his word and carried the fight into
! the Legislature. Wow it is our turn
j to ask the reformers, "What are you
j going to do about it Ty
The Powers of Europe have deci?
ded to inform the Turkish Govern?
ment that the persecution of the
Armenian Christians must be stop?
ped.
In the United States of Columbia
the national congress has voted in
favor of erecting in Independence
square at Carth agen a a marble monu?
ment to t&e memory of the late presi?
dent, Dr. D. Rafael Nunez. It was
voted also that he should have a
bronze statue at the same time in the
? capitol at Bogota.
f. Twenty-five defeated members? of
congress have^written to the Sergeant
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