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summer (1875) by the same Indians on the settlements 

 on the Loup Eiver. And yet we talk about the faith of 

 treaties. The Government does not in good faith carry out 

 its own treaty obligations, nor does it attempt to make 

 the Indians carry out theirs. The whole treaty system 

 is a murderous farce. 



It is no easy matter to remedy the faults of a 

 system which have become chronic from long usage, and 

 in the continuation of which many men strong in po- 

 sition and money are pecuniarily interested. 



I believe the time has come, however, when the 

 intelligent, humane people of this country are really con- 

 cerned for the future welfare and good government of 

 the Indians. For their information I will add my opinion 

 as to what should now be done to rectify these faults. 



1st. No more treaties should be made ivith Indians. 

 Those now binding should be abrogated as soon as pos- 

 sible. The system should be gradually changed, and the 

 Indians as rapidly as possible brought directly and indi- 

 vidually under the laws. 



2nd. Judges or magistrates should be appointed to 

 enforce in each tribe, or on each reservation, the criminal 

 laws of the United States, with power to call upon the 

 army at any and all times to carry out their decisions and 

 orders. 



3rd. The squaw men, whites, Mexicans, and negroes 

 should be put away from the reservations, and not per- 

 mitted to live with or go among the Indians. Cohabit- 

 ation, miscalled marriage, with Indian women should be 

 punished. 



Mh. Liquors, arms, ammunition, and property of any 

 kind, taken without authority into the Indian country for 

 traffic with the Indians, should be destroyed on the spot, 

 as also the waggons and animals transporting them. The 

 owners captured should be punished by imprisonment and 

 frne. 



bth. Congress should pass laws making it penal to sell 



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