TO THE PRESIDENT OP THE UNITED STATES: 



Sir : In the two interviews I have had with you on Indian 

 Affairs, I was impressed with your earnest desire to do justice to 

 the Indians, and with your broad and philanthropic views on the 

 whole Indian Question. This must be my excuse, as a private 

 citizen, for coming again to you, to lay before you a statement of 

 wrongs committed on the Sioux Indians, mainly under my 

 own observation, during a recent visit to their country. My visit 

 to this region was wholly in the interests of Science, with no 

 intention or wish to investigate Indian affairs. The frauds I ob- 

 served were brought to my notice by Red Cloud, who refused 

 to allow my party to enter the " Bad Lands," until I had prom- 

 ised to submit his complaints to you, in person. 



Since my interview with you upon this subject, I have been 

 informed by the Commissioner of Indian Affairs of the appoint- 

 ment of a committee to investigate affairs at the Red Cloud 

 Agency, and invited to lay a statement of the facts before them. 

 This I am quite ready to do whenever the committee request it. 

 I must decline, however, to give my statement to the Interior 

 Department alone, for the following reasons : 



1st. I have no confidence whatever in the sincerity of the Sec- 

 retary of the Interior or the Commissioner of Indian Affairs, when 



