TREATY-MAKING—EXCHANGING NAMES. QA4T 
warm clothing of skins). Sometimes they also swap names, which renders 
the treaty very sacred. The following amusing circumstance is related of 
the treaty made in 1852 by Col. Redick McKee with Tolo, for the posses- 
sion of the upper part of Scott Valley. The colonel was vestured in a 
scarlet waistcoat and other raiment calculated to produce a profound impres- 
sion on the aboriginal mind, while Tolo’s skin shirts were frayed and other- 
wise very objectionable to a civilized man. The old savage considered it ab- 
solutely necessary to the solemnization of the treaty that he should get him- 
self inside of that scarlet vest. But McKee’s views did not coincide with his, 
and after much persuasion and the promise of a herd of beef-cattle as a 
douceur, he secured Tolo’s assent to the treaty merely on condition that they 
2, else the treaty 
should exchange names. They must exchange something, 
would be, and remain, null and void; so the old natural called himself 
McKee, and gave the American his name. He was quite proud of the change 
for a long time, and always strenuously insisted on being called McKee. 
But month after month passed away, and there came no beef-cattle. As 
he began to get hungry, and still no hoof ever arrived, the name did not 
seem to him so ornamental. At last the unwelcome conviction dawned 
upon him that he had been swindled. One morning he came into the 
American camp, and when addressed by his Christian appellation he repu- 
diated it with indignation, and declared that he had no name, that it was 
“Jost”. Ever afterward, to the day of his death, he refused to be called 
anything, declaring that his name was “lost”. 
In 1874, Hon. J. K. Luttrell asserted in Congress that fifteen annual 
appropriations had been made for this tribe and that they never received 
a dollar of them all, the Indian agents having appropriated the money to 
themselves. Thus it was Tolo got nothing fer his valley but a name. 
A wife is purchased of her father for shell money or horses, ten or 
twelve cayuse ponies being paid for a maid of great attractions. The 
pioneers testify with much unanimity that the Shastika women were formerly 
more virtuous than those on the Sacramento; but now, like so many others 
living near mining camps, they are compelled by their indolent lords to go 
out on errands of prostitution, and then compelled again to give up the 
rewards of their infamy. They are to be pitied more than the California 
