Joint Resolution for the Enrollment of Certain Persons as Members of the Osage Tribe of Indians, and Forother Purposes; Hearings Before the Committee on Indian Affairs, United States Senate, Sixty Congress, Second Session, on Joint Resolution 70, on Matter (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1909. Excerpt: ... that passes before this committee and that you can not recall all of the evidence that has been offered here, and we ask you to send us to the court, where we may have a judicial determination of this case. These are the only people who are lawfully entitled to get there by reason of the particular provisions in the allotment bill, which protected them when they had their applications pending, on the date of the passage of that act. I thank you, Mr. Chairman and gentlemen. STATEMENT OF I. J. MILES, OF LAWRENCE, KANS. Mr. Miles. Mr. Chairman and gentlemen, I am simply a business man. T do not come bsfore you as an attorney, and for that reason my remarks may be a little disconnected, but I hope to be able to tell you the facts with reference to this matter as I know them to be. In the first place I want to give you a little idea of the conditions upon the Osage Reservation, and of the people thereon. It will be known that at the time of the treaty of 1825 the Osage people owned an empire, an undescribed empire. At that treaty they took a reservation which was the first reservation that they ever had that was described, so that it could be known what was in the reservation. At that time, and for almost the entire time that they owned-that reservation, the Osage people were divided; part of them lived in Missouri, in what is known as Pattonville, and part of them lived in Cherokee Nation, not far from Fort Gibson. The southern people lived there, and we find them there in 18G5. During all the time that the Osage people resided in that country, prior to the time of the purchase of the reservation below, they never did occupy the reservation together and alone. When they purchased the reservation on which they now reside, they commenced gathering into that res...