| | 1 | Author: | Zogbaum, Rufus F. | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | Life at an Indian Agency  | | | | Published: | 1994 | | | | Subjects: | University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | | | | Description: | THE treatment of the aboriginal inhabitants of the territories
over which the government of the United States has extended its
sway during the last twenty-five years has been — and still
continues to be — one of the most difficult problems ever
encountered in the development of any great nation. Marching
eastward from the Pacific and westward from the turbid waters of
the Missouri, stretching in two thin blue threads from the "British
line" to the Mexican frontier, our gallant little army has steadily
closed in on the savages, "rounding up" the scattered tribes and
gathering them in upon the immense reservations of land set apart
for their use. The government has established agencies to
represent it with the various tribes with which it has made
treaties, and it is the object of this paper simply to describe the
life at one of these agencies. | | | Similar Items: | Find |
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