WHAT FORESTRY HAS DONE FOR 

 THE CHIPPEWA INDIANS 



By GENERAL C. C. ANDREWS. Secretary of the Minnesota 

 State Forestry Board 



THROUGH the good offices of Governor Burnquist 

 and Senator Kellog I have lately received infor- 

 mation from the United States Commissioner of the 

 General Land Office, which shows, as I think, that the 

 eleven thousand Chippewa Indians in Minnesota have 

 derived considerable money during the past fourteen 

 years by the application of forestry principles in the 

 disposal of their pine timber. 



The Act of Congress of January 14, 1889, for the re- 

 lief and civilization of the Chippewa Indians in Min- 

 nesota provided for ceding to the United States by the 

 Indians all the lands in their eight reservations (aggre- 

 gating 5,284,000 acres) except enough of the Red Lake 

 and White Earth reservations to supply allotments of 

 land to individual Indians. Each head of a family was 

 to be allotted 160 acres, each single person over eigh- 

 teen years 80 acres, each orphan child under eighteen 

 years 80 acres, and every other single person under 

 eighteen years 40 acres ; the United States to hold each 

 allotment in trust twenty-five years, and at the end of 

 that period give the allottee a patent conveying abso- 

 lute title ; the President, however, reserved authority 

 in his discretion to extend the trust period. The Act 

 provided that all the lands ceded but the pine lands 

 should be open to homestead settlement at $1.25 an , 

 acre, to be paid for by the settler in five' annual pay- 

 ments ; that the proceeds of land and timber should be 



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