Notes of a Summer Tour Among the Indians of the Southwest (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

Leupp, Francis E.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1332321739 ISBN 13: 9781332321735

Publisher: Forgotten Books, 2018

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Excerpt from Notes of a Summer Tour Among the Indians of the Southwest

It has already been remarked that in choosing sites for the Apache villages, Captain Scott gave much latitude to the judg ment of the head men. This suggests another chapter of the story.

Two courses lie open to every agent or other officer who takes charge of a band of Indians. He finds them organized under certain leadership. There will, perhaps, be a war chief, a peace chief, several sub-chiefs, head men, and the like. He may promptly depose all these dignitaries and announce himself as the sole source of authority, calling no councils, asking no advice, and brooking no interference. On the other hand, he may place himself wholly outside of the organization, refer every thing to the leaders, issue his communications through them, and, by deferring to their wishes in all matters, add to the authority they already possess the sanction of Government support. In deciding at the outset what attitude he shall take toward the existing organization, he may make or mar his entire administra tion. No unvarying rule can be laid down, applicable to all Indians and all conditions. In some instances the prominent members of a tribe have been so spoiled by timid or time-serving agents that to give them any rein whatever means to surrender all hope of advancing their followers in civilization. In other cases it is the conservative, wise, steady-headed old men upon whom the agent must lean in trying to keep the younger generation out of vice and crime, while the so-called progressive element are lending themselves, often under the cloak of religion, to every scheme for making money out of their own flesh and blood. It therefore behooves the white officer in command to study well the condition in which he finds his Indians, and shape his conduct accordingly.

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Excerpt from Notes of a Summer Tour Among the Indians of the Southwest My annual tour in the Indian country this year included a most interesting visit to Fort Sill, O. T., where the Chiricahua band of Apache prisoners have their home. To travel through Arizona and hear the people talk of Geronimo, the Apache arch-fiend, who, if he set foot in the Territory, would be hanged for murder without the formality of a trial, is impressive. But to pass up into Oklahoma and find this same Geronimo putting in his honest eight hours of work daily as a farmer in the fields, and at intervals donning his uniform as a United States scout and presenting himself with the other scouts for inspection, is still more so. Most Indian outbreaks have been the result of a situation which, in a measure at least, justified them. To go upon the warpath is sometimes the only means left to a tribe for calling the attention of the Government and the people sharply to the wrongs it has been suffering. Other cases find a type in the last campaign of Chief Joseph, who, after the Government had wickedly removed the Nez Perces to a region where they died like sheep smitten with a murrain, led his people across the country on a march which has, perhaps, never been paralleled in military history, and which need not have cost a single human life but for the folly of his pursuers. No excuse seems, however, to have been urged or sought in the case of Geronimo. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any

Edition details

• Publisher: Forgotten Books
• Publication date: 2018
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1332321739
• ISBN 13: 9781332321735
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 30