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^Bp1 VOL. 1. The Progress. Gus. H.'Beauiieu, Theo. H, Beau lieu, Publisher. Editor. White Earth Agency, Hlfnn. 3 A WEEK LY NEWSPAP ER de voted to the interest of the White Eaith Reservation and genoial Xoith wostern jSTews. Published and man aged by members of the Reserva tion. Correspondence beaimg on the In dian questionpiohlem, or on geneial interest, is solicited. Subscription rates: $2.00 pei an num. For the convenience of those who may feel unable to pay for the paper yearly or A\ ho may ibh to take it on trial, subscuptions may be sent us for six and thiee months at the yearly rates. All subsci lptions oi sums sent to us should be foiwaided by Kegisteied lettei to insme safety. Adderess all communications to THE PROGRESS, White Eaith, Minn. 3 W 1 1 tf 1 P3 1 Jftfrgfr W tf xn I rh R. FAIRBANKS, Dealer in QHOCERIES PROVISION. wnd Lvmbvmw's Supplies, o FLOUR aa FEED Sifept nlia 5 etHMHY^Sttfeto Root tm* Tun **\*4 I t:i:t^^^miS^^'iJmJ^MHn^^ mH^^sJ^^f^s^^^\f^^^%iuW^^kiS The Indian Right and Wrong. ^"Wi, hold these truths to be self-evident, that ALL MEN are created equal that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights that among these, are 1,1* E, LIBFItTY, AND THE PUKSUIT OP IIAP- pixFSfe "Declaration of Independence, Julv 4th, J776. Lake Traverse Sioux Reservations. Enoch Mahpiyahdinape''s Case SISSETON- AGENCY, Dak,, December 3, 1886. Gabriel Eenvilleprincipal chief. Wi th great respect and rever erence for you the undersigned council of the Sisseton and Wah peton bands of the Lake Traverse reservation represent that during the past summer one Enoch Mah piyahdinape came upon this reser vation as a visitor fiom the Brit ish possessions, and remains here still. He is not a member of the Lake Traverse band and has no right whatever upon the Lake Traverse reservation, and is con stantly creating trouble among che people. W therefore request that you lay these facts before agent Green and ask him to remove said Enoch Mahpiyahdinape from the Lake Traverse reservation. Wicanrpinonpa, President Council. [The above is also signed nine councillor.] BHWwnti of by SISSETON AGENCY, Dak., *Jan. 21, 1887. Major Israel Greene, S. In dian Agent, Sisseton agency, D. T. Sir:We, the council of the Sisseton and Wahpeton nation, respectfully ask that you will, as soon as the weather permits, re move one Enoch Mahpiyahdinape from the reservation. He belongs to the British possessions and is not a member of these tribes, but is a visitor only and while on the reserve has created disturbance among the people. Yours respectfully, Amos Ecetukiya, Sec'y Wicanrpinonpa, President of the Council. WASHINGTO N, D. C. March 0, 1888. Hon. J. D. C. Atkins. Com'r of Indian Affairs. Sir:The following statement of facts in relation to one Enoch Mahpiyahdinape is respectfully submitted for your consideration. On December 3, 1886, I receiv ed a communication from the Council of the Sisseton and Wah peton bands of the Lake Traverse Reservation, relative to said Enoch Mahpiyahdinape (see copy of same herewith submitted, marked "A"), and in compliance with the request therein made, I called upon the S. Indian agent and laid the mat ter before him and urged that he remove said Enoch from the reser vation, which he promised to do. After the lapse of nearly two months and no action in the mat ter having been taken, the said Council on January 21, 1887, com municated with the agent direct on the same subject, a copy of which is herewith submitted, marked''B." The agent thereupon informed me that as soon as the weather permitted he would order said Enoch, off the reservation. More than a year has elapsed since then, and although I have repeatedly called the agent's attention to the matter and urged upon him the necessity of compliance with the wishes of the people, in this re gard, yet for some nnaecountable reason the said Enoch has not been ordered off and still remains on tlie reservation. Although the said JEnoch is a Wahpeton Sionx yet he is not a member of that "portion' 1 of said bctfads entitled to locate up the Lake Traverse reservation, se aAeamble to treaty of 1867), women and children from a bnt he belongK to the "othei members of said l^ands referred in the 4th article t said trerty. At the time of th\ outbreak the Mdewakanton Sikux, in Min nesota in 1862, the satt Enoch fle with the hostile element when thJ troops moved into the country in* pursuit and finally reached the} British possessions where he wa| employed by the Canadian fu trade. As his employment depend! plains he resorted to all sorts expedients to affect his object. This Mankato affair was un doubtedly the outgrowth of Enoch's visit as above stated as the old fellow has an oily tongue and is capable of winning cohorts. not only kept the young men on the war-path (the scouts intercep ted and killed thirteen of the ras cals during the month of May 1865), but he continually kept the Chiefs and old men in fear, by j"st such reports, circulated from time to time, to counteract any disposi tion for peace. Gen. John M. Corse, who relieved Gen. Sibley as District commander, in an official dispatch, dated, Headquarters, District of Minn, St, Paul, Minn., Feb. 15, 1866, said If those bands desirous of coming in will do so, the accomplishment of a very de sirable object will be affected. For the remnant will be so small, I could afford to buy their scalp. I do not know what can be done with Enoch bnt I expect the old rascal had better be bought Now, after all this, and after an absence of twenty years four years as a refugee under the protection of the British flag, during man years of which he labored assidu ously to keep the Indians on the war-path, and during all of which time he nursed (and still nurses) a revengeful spirit and a most bit ter hatred against all Indians who acted as scouts, the man Enoch comes sneaking into the reserva tion that was set apart for *'Sib-: ley's hireling," claims residence among those of his tribe that (to. quote from the treaty) "freely peiilled their lives in behalf of the! whites." The treaty of 1867 provided a reservation at lake Traverse for that portion of the Sissetons and Wahpetons -who at the time of the massacre saved hundreds of white ^^m&-^skS WHITE EARTH AGENCY, MINtffSOTA, SATURDAY, APRIL 14, 1888. traders and used in the Sicu^ doned and released from prison in 1866, were provided a reservation ed upon retaining the Sioux on tie! During the summer of 1864, he visited a scout station near Foit Wadworth, Dak. for the pourpose, as he said, of seeing how the In dians were treated, so that he could tell the Indians on the plains and induce them to make peace. Instead of doing so, however, on his return he reported that all the Indians that had been captured by Gen. Sibley had been hung, and that the bones of the Indians were hanging on trees from Yellow Medicine to Lake Traverse. That the same fate would be met by all, whether friendly or not, should they fall into the hands of "Sib ley's hirelings,"as he termed the Sisseton scouts, which report so exasperated the young men that the Chiefs and the older heads who had been counseling peace since the thrashing Gen. Sibley gave them the summer befoie, lost all control over them, and the Indian war, so far as raiding parties were concerned, was renewed with such vigor that it became necessary, in view of the exposed condition of the frontier settlements in Minne sota to employ more scouts, which was done and an organization was effected that fall, and early the following spring, before the scout ing stations were established, a war party of sixteen made its way to the settlements and committed those horrible butcheries known is the "Jewett" murders near Mankato, Minn. cap- lil tivity worse than death, joined and did good service with the ex peditions sent against the hostile Indians, protected fhe frontier settlemests for several years, kill ing many Indians who were on hostile raids, and finally by the terror they inspired among the hostile Indians, stopped all hos tile expeditions against the whites, these, with a few who were par a lake Traverse, while that por tion of said bands who at the time pf said outbreak fled to the great Prairies of the North-west when thev^roops moved into the country in pursuit, and remained with the hostile Indians, were provided a reservation at Devil's lake. There fore Enoch, if he belongs any where in the United States, belongs at Devil's lake! Yet he has been allowed to take for himself and family undei the general land in severalty la over a thousand acres of land at Lake Traverse. The Government cannot make the Lake Traverse reservation the "botany bay" for the criminal classes of the Enoch stripe with out violating treaty obligation (if not the letter, certainly the spirit of it), and without a terrible in jury to the morality of the Indi ans. Already incendiary fires have occurred there destroying houses and barnes and much other property, one Indian losing four teen head of horses, cattle and sheep, the accumulations of years of toil. In view of these incontestible facts, I feel it my duty to write this protest, and ask that the al lotments made to said Enoch and his family, as appears from the records in your office, may be can celled, and that he be ordered off of the Lake Traverse reservation. Very respectfully, Gabriel Renville. Principal Chief of Lake Trav erse band. [We are not conversant with the facts in the case which has led to the above controversy, and can but publish the correspondence as it was handed to us, and therefore forbear further comment.Ed.] "Wedding Presents in China. The ceremonies employed in Chi nese marriages differ widely in the various provinces and districts. In all, however, a "g between" is engaged to find, in the first in stance, a fitting bride for the would be bridegroom to conduct the preliminary pioceedings of bringing the parents to terms, and to see to the casting of the horo scopes and the exchange of pres ents. The gifts presented are of infinite variety but in almost ev ery ease a goose and a gander, the recognized emblems of conjugal fidelity, figure conspicuously among the offering made by the bridegroom. Th choice of these birds is so strange that one is apt to consider it as one of the pecu liar customs of the topsy turvy Chinese mind, which regards the left hand as the place of honor and the stomach as the seat of the intellect. But this is not quite so, for we find from George Sand that at the marriage of french peasants in Berry a goose was commonly borne in the bridegroom's pro cession.Blackwood's Magazine. Person^ troubled with a tenden cy to stoop, and who are becoming round shouldered, are advised to walk with the palms of the hands forward, the thumbs outward. I will do wonders toward straight ening a bent form, as any soldier will testify.New York Sun. seen Oft times after a man his "'ant e" he is compelled to go and see his uncle,"The Enoch. ITT 1888. SPRING ANNOUNCEMENT BLANDING & SMITH DETROIT MINN." Editorial Humor. A young lady, visiting for the first time the country, was al armed at the approach of a cow. She was too frightened to run, long time. Usually chess players want to move.New Orleans Picayune. The figures of this year, 1888, resemble three big girls and a dude as they spread themselves across the pavement on a fine afternoon. -Williamsport Su and Banner. Some one asks: "Does it pay tc be good Perhaps our evidence in the matter will not be taken, and so we shall not answer the ques tion directly, but we will say that it is good to be paid.Lowell Citi zen. The young man who would waste time kissing a girl's hand would eat the brown paper bag and leave the hot house grapes foi some one else.Somerville Jour nal. Lei a man sit down on a bent pin and he will arise promptly and speak briefly to the point.New Orleans Picayune. It is hoped thai the man who predicted that we were going to have a warm winter hasn't a bush el of coal in his bin, and is snow ed up 100 miles from a coal yard. Norrisiown Herald. "See here, waiter, how it that I find a button in this salad "Dat am a part of the dressen' sah."Life. A W A E! Tinware, Crockery, Glassware and Lamp. -TTT-0- BAKER'S BARB WIRE, OHN DEERE PLOWS, HARROWS AND' CULTIVATORS. COMPLETE LINE OF CARTRIDGES AND GUN SUPPLIES. FISHING TACKLE, etc. 25m2 I3TJfa/7 Orders will Receive Prompt Attention. I3T ATTENTION FARMERS! .Sf WE HAVE FOUND IT A GENUINE BONANZA AT A FAIRBANKS & BROS, -DEALERS NN- Dry Goods, Groceries, Provisions Boots & Shoes, Hardware. Everything First-Class, and at Astonishingly Low Prices. Car-Loads of New Goods Arriving Every Day. WHITE EARTH AGENCY, NO. 28. THE BEST In the World! 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