...tribe," which was carried forward into section 2079 of the Revised Statutes, which reads: " Sue. 2079. No Indian nation or tribe, within the territory of...States may contract by treaty ; but no obligation of uny treaty lawfully made and ratified with any such Indian nation or tribe prior to March third, eighteen...

...clause was inserted in the Indian appropriation bill of March 3, 1871 ( 16 Stats., .W,): "That hereafter no Indian nation or tribe within the territory of the United States shall bo acknowledged or recognised as an independent nation, tribe, or power with whom the t'uitcd States...

...the 3rd of March. 1S71, Congress enacted that "hereafter no Indian nation, tribe, or power, shall bo acknowledged or recognized as an independent nation, tribe, or power, with whom the United States maj contract by treaty." This Act of Congress thus, to a certain extent, proclaimed all Indians within...

...the doom of the Indian-treaty system. By act of March 3 of that year, it was declared "that hereafter no Indian nation or tribe within the territory of...with whom the United States may contract by treaty." It is not for an instant to be thought or spoken that Congress, by such a declaration, intended to...

...JR. G> ART. IV.—THE INDIAN QUESTION. ON the 30th of March, 1871, Congress declared that " hereafter no Indian nation or tribe within the territory of...with whom the United States may contract by treaty." Brave words these would have seemed to good William Penn, treating with the Lenni Lenape, under the...

...self-government of tribes according to their own laws and customs, — by declaring that " Hereafter no Indian nation or tribe within the territory of...with whom the United States may contract by treaty." In the face of three hundred and eighty-two treaties with Indian tribes, ratified by the Senate as...

...self-government of tribes according to their own laws and customs, — by declaring that " Hereafter no Indian nation or tribe within the territory of...with whom the United States may contract by treaty." In the face of three hundred and eighty-two treaties with Indian tribes, ratified by the Senate as...

...entered upon and carried out as to all. The declaration made by Congress March 3d, 1871,\ that "hereafter no Indian nation or tribe within the territory of...with whom the United States may contract by treaty," appears to me to relieve the Department from entangling itself with MM effort to reform past treaties,...

...TBIBES ,,,,•« 148 THE INDIAN QUESTION.* ON the 3d of March, 1871, Congress declared that " hereafter no Indian nation or tribe within the territory of...with whom the United States may contract by treaty." Brave words these would hare seemed to good William Penn, treating with the Lenni Lenape, tinder the...

...industrial populatiou in favor of Indiaug. The declaration made by Congress March 3, 1671, that " hereafter no Indian nation or tribe within the territory of...with whom the United States may contract by treaty," appears to me to relieve the Department from entangling itself with an effort to reform past treaties,...