Survey of Conditions of the Indians in the United States: Hearings Before a Subcommittee of the Committee on Indian Affairs, United States Senate, Seventieth Congress, Second Session[- Congress, Session] Pursuant to S Res. 79, a Resolution Directing the Committee on Indian Affairs of the United States Senate to Make a General Survey of the Condition of the Indians of the United States, Parts 17-18

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Sequence of important events
18543
Annette Islands Reserve not an ordinary Indian reservation
18553
Plot of Bureau of Education to control or destroy the Metla kahtla Christian Mission___
18569
Religious and property rights violated
18583
Legal authorities support the case
18590
Responsible men demand investigation
18591
Unauthorized sectarian interference with Father Duncan
18595
Warning given Bureau of Education 40 years ago
18600
Bureau of Education arrogates to itself power to set aside an act of Congress with disastrous effects
18601
A dark page in American history
18618
Justice requires restitution__
18620
INTRIGUES 13 Beginning of intrigues in Government department
18621
Bureau plotters establish strategic headquarters at Saxman
18629
Vicious propaganda from plotters headquarters at Saxman
18639
Dismal failure of Government school and the rival mission at Saxman__
18648
Plotter spurns Father Duncans wise advice_
18661
Plotters use crafty native as tool in vicious attacks on Father Duncan_
18668
Clandestine organization to create discontent at Metlakahtla
18693
Government handwriting experts disclose forgery in socalled native petitions
18695
Bureau agents cooperate in use of faked native petitions to deceive Government_
18722
CONSPIRACY 22 Politicosectarian machine of the Bureau of Education con tinues__
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The plot widens
18738
A wolf in sheeps clothing
18740
A bureau spy
18758
Bureau scheme to invade Metlakahtla
18770
Department inspector falls into trap set by plotters
18781
Plotters lay snare for Secretary of Interior
18792
Schemes of plotters delayed by political scandal
18807
Deception and secrecy
18811
INVASIONS AND SEIZURES Page Section 31 Plotters complete plans to invade Metlakahtla
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Intrusion of Government school at Metlakahtla_
18823
Invasion and seizure of Father Duncans mission grounds
18834
Plotters plan to continue invasions and seizures__
18837
Father Duncans selfsupporting mission despoiled
18841
Bureau of Education builds up false and surreptitious file on Metlakahtla _ _
18847
Secretary of Interior deceived and misled by an erroneous and unsigned alleged legal opinion
18855
Seizure of Father Duncans waterpower pipe line
18863
Rules and regulations changed to aid plotters
18876
Secretary of Interior deceived and misled by Cragin opinion
18919
Bureau of Education forces Father Duncan to stop operating his industries
18931
Seizure of Father Duncans buildings and industrial plants
18935
Seizure of mission buildings
18943
Seizure of church keys
18951
Government interferes in election of church officers
18957
CHURCH AND STATE
18969
Rights of religious assembly and of petition denied
18970
Confiscation of fisheries for benefit of outside commercial interests
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18993
Invasions and seizures unlawful 18080
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Prophecies fulfilled
19135
Grand jury recommendation ignored by Department officials
19139
Lest we forget
19141
DEATH OF WILLIAM DUNCAN 60 The passing of the Apostle of Alaska
19143
Father Duncans life work
19152
Religious precepts of Father Duncan
19158
SPOILS 63 Father Duncans cannery and waterpower pipe line lawlessly turned over to outside fishing interests
19161
Fisheries illegally turned over to private interests
19166
The Metlakahtla Commercial Co and the sweating of the Metlakahtlans
19178
Father Duncans followers blacklisted_
19206
Illegal granting of mining permits
19213
Despoilers bring decadence to Metlakahtla
19220
ATTEMPTS TO DESTROY THE RESERVE 70 Attempts to throw open and destroy the special reserve created by Congress for the Metlakahtlans
19231
The politicosectarian plot
19247
Pernicious activities of Marsden in affairs of church and state 12989
19289
The Fripp report
19304
Evils of sectarianism in mission fields
19321
Slanders through faked petitions and writings inspired by Bureau plotters
19331
Defamations and deceptions by false interpretations
19334
Misguided natives enticed into making false statements
19339
Bureau plotters revive slanders refuted 40 years ago
19343
Secretary of Interior deceived by unreliable and fictitious departmental reports
19350
Advice to Secretary of Interior by false friends
19360
Defamatory statements refuted__
19370
Untrue allegations of plotters refuted by their own state
19374
ments
19454
Star witnesses and their sponsors
19468
Father Duncan appeals in vain for information of charges against him
19484
FAILURE OF BUREAU OF EDUCATION 86 Functions of Bureau of Education in respect to Indian schools
19491
Failure and demoralization of Bureau of Education in Alaska exposed by its own records
19495
Low morale in Bureau of Education
19510
Metlakahtla demoralized by Bureau of Education
19516
Comparison__
19520
SUCCESS OF WILLIAM DUNCAN
19546
The problem of Indian education__
19549
Policies and methods of Father Duncan
19560
Father Duncans influence on mission fields of the world
19579
Appraisals of life and work of Father Duncan
19595
Plotters still in unlawful control
19619
Marsdens misconduct and financial irregularities as secretary of Annette Islands Reserve___
19627
Attempts to suppress evidence and destroy documents
19636
LAWLESSNESS 98 Laws violated_
19651
Bureaucracy
19661
A grave offense against Christian civilization
19666
RESTITUTION 101 Conclusions and suggestions
19681
Matthews Dr Mark A 18469
19699
Hudson Everett 18447
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Stone Early R 18393
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Page 19129 - Remember the word that I said unto you, The servant is not greater than his lord. If they have persecuted me, they will also persecute you; if they have kept my saying, they will keep yours also.
Page 18439 - Signed, sealed, published and declared by the said John Alden, 2nd, as and for his last will and testament, in the presence of us, who, at his request, and in his presence, and in the presence of each other have subscribed our names as witnesses the day and year above written.
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Page 18569 - ... several of our young people were formerly brought up at the colleges of the northern provinces; they were instructed in all your sciences, but when they came back to us, they were bad runners, ignorant of every means of living in the woods, unable to bear either cold or hunger, knew neither how to build a cabin, take a deer, or kill an enemy, spoke our language imperfectly, were therefore neither fit for hunters, warriors, nor counsellors; they were totally good for nothing.
Page 18569 - Virginia government in making them that offer ; " for we know," says he, " that you highly esteem the kind of learning taught in those colleges, and that the maintenance of our young men while with you would be very expensive to you. We are convinced, therefore, that you mean to do us good by your proposal, and we thank you heartily. But you, who are wise, must know that different nations have different conceptions of things ; and you will...
Page 18813 - If two or more persons conspire either to commit any offense against the United States, or to defraud the United States in any manner or for any purpose...
Page 19020 - Alexander Archipelago in Southeastern Alaska, on the north side of Dixon's Entrance, be, and the same is hereby, set apart as a reservation for the use of the Metlakahtla Indians, and those people known as Metlakahtlans who have recently emigrated from British Columbia to Alaska, and such other Alaskan natives as may join them...
Page 19021 - An act making appropriations for the construction, repair and preservation of certain public works on rivers and harbors, and for other purposes...
Page 19112 - Oh! when the heart is full — when bitter thoughts Come crowding thickly up for utterance, And the poor common words of courtesy Are such a very mockery — how much The bursting heart may pour itself in prayer!
Page 18567 - The history of the Government connections with the Indians is a shameful record of broken treaties and unfulfilled promises. The history of the border white man's connection with the Indians is a sickening record of murder, outrage, robbery, and wrongs committed by the former, as the rule, and occasional savage outbreaks and unspeakably barbarous deeds of retaliation by the latter, as the exception.