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Titre : Annual report of the Bureau of American ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian institution
Auteur : Bureau of American ethnology (Washington, D.C.). Auteur du texte
Éditeur : Government printing office (Washington)
Date d'édition : 1896
Contributeur : Powell, John Wesley (1834-1902). Directeur de publication
Notice du catalogue : http://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb37575968z
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Type : publication en série imprimée
Langue : anglais
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Description : 1896
Description : 1896 (N18,PART2)-1897.
Description : Note : Index.
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Droits : Public domain
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Date de mise en ligne : 15/10/2007
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of thé Indians of the plantation wherein such lands do lie; and all sales or leases of land for any terni or terms of years that shall at any time hereafter during the continnance of this act, he made by any Indian or Indians to any other Indian or Indians, shall be ntterly void and of none effect, unless the same be made by and with license of the respective guardians as aforesaid.'
In 1780 an act was passed appointing commissioners to examine all sales of lands previously made by any of the Indians of the Moheakunnuk tribe residing 111 Stockbridge which had not been legally confirmed, and to confirm those for which payment had justly been made. Another act was passed confirming thé agreement with the Penobscot Indians, by which said Indians released their daims to all lands on the west side of Penobscot river, from the head of thé tide up to the river Pasquatequis being about forty-three miles; aud all their daims aud interest on the east side of the river from the head of thé tide aforesaid up to the river Mantawomkeektook being about eighty-five miles, reserving only to themselves the island on which thé old town stands and those islands on which they now hâve actaal improvement." As the records show purchases of but a comparatively small portion of thé territory of the state, and uo assertions are fon.nd in any of the numerous histories that the lands, except in the bounds of Plymouth colony, were generally purchased, thé reasonable inference is that they were not, or at least that a large portion of them was otherwise obtained. This conclusion appears to be confirmed by statements which have been quoted above. That Massachusetts made an earnest effort to christianize the Indians is certainly true, but it must be admitted that the treatment of these natives by the Puritans of Massachusetts Bay in regard to their lands will not compare in the sense of justice, equity, and humanity with the policy of Connecticut, Rhode Island, or Pennsylvania.
CONNECTICUT
The policy of the settlers of Connecticut in their dealings with the natives regarding their lands forms one of the brightest chapters, in this respect, of the early history of our country. It is perhaps not without justification that the author of one of the histories of the statez makes the following statemetit:
The planters of Connecticut proved by their conduct that they did not seek to obtain undne advantag'e over the Indians. Eveti the requod war was uot.undertaken for the pnrpose of increasing their territory, but only in self-defense; for they did not need their lands, nor did they use them for a considérable time. If they had wished for them, they wonid have prcferrod to pay several times their value. They allowed thé other tribes all the land they claimed after the destruction of the Pequods, and took none without paying a satisfactory price. Indeed, in most cases they bonght the land in large tracts, and afterward paid for it again in smaller ones, when they wislied to ocolpy it. In some instances, they thus pnrchased land thrice, and, with the repeated presents made to the sachems, thé sums they spent ~.L&wsof Colonial and State &overnmentn Relatiït~ to Indien Aitairs (]832), p. 16. 2Theodore Dwight, jr., The History of Connecticut from the First Settlement to the Present Time (18~1),p.S9.