The Indian Before the LawIndian Rights Association, 1884 - 82 páginas |
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agency magistrate agency.-Agent Agent Kauffman Agent Milroy appeal appointed assault bring suit case.-Agent Cherokee citizen citizenship civil Commissioner of Indian crimes committed criminal custom deceased decisions dians District Court effectual election enforced favor FILBERT STREET FORT SIMCOE Fourteenth Amendment frequent Government Hare HERBERT WELSH Indian Affairs Indian Country Indian police INDIAN RIGHTS ASSOCIATION Indian standard Indian tribes Indians and whites Indians.-Agent intercourse J. P. Williamson J. W. Cook judge or magistrate jurisdiction jury system justice land McGillycuddy ment missionaries murder nation No.-Rev offenses officer opinion PANCOAST peace person Pine Ridge political polygamy practicable prejudices question race redress reservation court restraint rules Santee Santee Sioux Sioux stealing stoppage of rations Territory theft tion treaties tribal laws U. S. Indian Agent United States courts W. W. Fowler WAYNE MACVEAGH whites and Indians wide discretion Wiels Yakama Yes.-Agent Durfee Yes.-C. C. Bonney Yes.-Rt
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Página 4 - No Indian nation or tribe within the territory of the United States shall be acknowledged or recognized as an independent nation, tribe, or power, with whom the United States may contract by treaty...
Página 8 - This section shall not extend to offenses committed by one Indian against the person or property of another Indian, nor to any Indian committing any offense in the Indian country who has been punished by the local law of the tribe, or to any case where, by treaty stipulations, the exclusive jurisdiction over such offenses is or may be secured to the Indian tribes respectively.
Página 8 - Except as to crimes, the punishment of which is expressly provided for in this title, the general laws of the United States as to the punishment of crimes committed In any place within the sole and exclusive jurisdiction of the United States, except the District of Columbia, shall extend to the Indian country.
Página 7 - They were nevertheless to be subject to the laws of the United States, not in the sense of citizens, but, as they had always been, as wards, subject to a guardian; not as individuals, constituted members of the political community of the United States, with a voice in the selection of representatives and the framing of the laws, but as a dependent community who were in a state of pupilage, advancing from the condition of a savage tribe...
Página 21 - It tries them not by their peers, nor by the customs of their people, nor the law of their land, but by superiors of a different race, according to the law of a social state of which they have an imperfect conception, and which is opposed to the traditions of their history, to the habits of their lives, to the strongest prejudices of their savage nature; one which measures the red man's revenge by the maxims of the white man's morality.
Página 26 - It should make every man who sits in the national halls of legislation blush. And. wish well to the Indians as we may, and do for them what we will, the efforts of civil agents, teachers, and missionaries are like the struggles of drowning men weighted with lead, as long as by the absence of law Indian society is left without a base.
Página 8 - In the opinion of your committee the constitution and the treaties, acts of congress, and judicial decisions, above referred to, all speak the same language upon this subject, and all point to the conclusion that the indians, in tribal condition, have never been subject to the jurisdiction of the United States, in the sense in which the term jurisdiction is employed in the fourteenth amendment to the constitution.
Página 17 - ... continues the, same learned author, " for injury done to him in bonis, in terris, vel persona, by any other subject, be he ecclesiastical or temporal, without any exception, may take his remedy by the course of the law, and have justice and right for the injury done to him, freely without sale, fully without any denial, and speedily without delay.
Página 80 - ... a few non-progressive, degraded Indians are allowed to exhibit before the young and susceptible children all the debauchery, diabolism, and savagery of the worst state of the Indian race. Every man familiar with Indian life will bear witness to the pernicious influence of these savage rites and heathenish customs. On the 2d of December last, with the view of as soon as possible putting an end to these heathenish practices, I addressed a letter to the Commissioner of Indian Affairs...