438 GOVERNMENT POLICY 



&quot; The most important feature in the present policy of the 

 Government, as connected with this people, is to be found in 

 the efforts that are making to remove them beyond the limits 

 of the States and organized territories. A very extensive tract 

 of country, lying to the west and north of the Arkansas terri 

 tory, has lately been set apart for the colonization of the In 

 dians. 



&quot; Let such of the emigrating Indians as choose it, continue 

 as heretofore to devote themselves to the chase in a country 

 where their toils will amply be rewarded. Let those who are 

 willing: to cultivate the arts of civilisation be formed into a 



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colony, consisting of distinct tribes or communities, but placed 

 contiguous to each other, and connected by general laws, 

 which shall reach the whole. Let the lands be apportioned 

 among families and individuals in severalty, to be held by the 

 same tenures by which we hold ours, with perhaps some tem 

 porary and wholesome restraints on the power of alienation. 

 Assist them in forming a code of laws, adapted to a state of 

 civilisation. 



&quot; In regard to such Indians as shall still remain within the 

 States and territories, and refuse to emigrate, let an arrange 

 ment be made with the proper authorities of the States in which 

 they are situated, for partitioning out to them into severalty as 

 much of their respective reservations as shall be amply sufficient 

 for agricultural purposes. Set apart a tract proportioned in size 

 to the number of Indians, to remain, in common, as a refuge, 

 and subject to all the municipal laws of the state in which they 

 reside. Let the remainder of the reservation be paid for by 

 those who hold the paramount right, at such prices as shall be 

 deemed, in reference to the uses which Indians are accustomed 

 to make of it, reasonable, and the proceeds to be applied for 

 the benefit of those of the tribe who emigrate after their estab 

 lishment in the colony ; or be divided between those who 

 emigrate and those who remain, as justice may require. 



&quot; To the views herein presented, of the condition of the 

 Indians, of the prospects which await them, and of the only 

 efficient remedy in their power to seek, or in that of the 

 government to apply, I take the liberty of adding my own 

 testimonial, founded on an intimate intercourse with them for 



