Urgent Plea to Civilize Indians Discussed by Congress in 1886
The article reports a late spring 1886 congressional discussion on Indian policy aiming to civilize Northwest tribes. It notes eastern philanthropists influencing the debate, the Montana reservations, and a House committee modification removing tribal patent provisions and delaying land proceeds to Indians.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Montana
Congress
Redmen
Lou” Grill
Northwest
House
Washington, D. C
Senate
Indian Civilization Debate Shapes Montana Lands Policy
The article recalls Seymour Kanaka’s arrest for drunkenness in Kalispell and his claim of blindness from rubbing alcohol. It discusses the era’s push to civilize Indians through land allotments, the open settlement of Blackfoot lands, and the conflicted view on civilization versus dispossession amid subsequent legislation and editorials.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Seymour Kanaka
Kalispell
Seymour
Eugene McCarthy
Secretary of the Interior
House
Senate
Congress
William A. Clark
Butte
Butte Miner
Toole
Clark
Blackfoot Reservation
House Committee On Territories
Mr. Clark
Maginnis
Lamar
Seventh Cavalry
George A. Custer
Nelson A. Miles
Fifth Infantry
Tongue River
Fort Keogh
Washington Dispatch
S. A. Marney
Miles City
Old Timer Recounts Stopping Indian Massacre With Miles
A veteran describes a 1879 expedition from Fort Keogh led by General Miles to halt Sioux renegades near the Milk River. The narrative recalls disarming bands, a perilous stand, Miles’s leadership, and a daring rider who rode to deliver aid, averting a massacre and shaping earlier frontier policy debates.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Montana
Miles
Keogh
Yellowstone
Fifth Infantry
Fort Peck
Missouri River
Milk River
Clark
Borden
Hoppen
Little Wolff
Sitting Bull
Connell
Ireland
Turkey Weighs 37 Pounds for Thanksgiving Roast
Kalispell justice of the peace Eugene McCarthy and his party ended up with roast pork after a 37 pound turkey tale. A woman sold him the bird but a rooster in town supposedly kept the turkey from the roaster. The large bird weighed 37 pounds.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Eugene McCarthy
United States
Kalispel
Turkey
McCarthy
Last Negro Pioneer Society member dies in Helena
Randall Reed, 86, the last surviving African American member of the Society of Montana Pioneers, died after several weeks of illness. Born into slavery in the South, he came to Montana in 1864, worked as a freight team driver at Bannack, lived in Virginia City and Fort Benton, and had lived in Helena for four decades.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Randall Reed
Society of Montana Pioneers
Helena
South
Reed
Montana
Bannack
Virginia City
Fort Benton
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Apprec
W. A. Clark
Old Timer
E M. Locke
Custer
the Little Big Horn
Fort Custer
Quartermaster’s Department
Glendive
D. S. Gordon
Second Cavalry
Eleventh Infantry
Henry Kiser
Billings
Lame Deer
Little Wolf
Children of the Forest
Marney
Yellowstone River
Great Northwest
Felix
Colonel Rice
Rice
Captain Clark
Canada
International Boundary
Major Walsh
Northwest Mounted Police
Jack Conley
Deer Lodge County
Frank Marion
Great Falls
Gen
Sapphire Vascour Flout
Bozeman Great
Anaconda Copper Mining CO Dept. “C
Anaconda, Mont
State Pioneers’ Society
Thee Roundup Coal Mining CO
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