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History, con’t from page 29
The commission even tried to make our people feel guilty about the boarding school
that had been provided, saying that white people had to pay to send their children to
school (not realizing, perhaps, just how dearly our people too had paid for the boarding
school in Siletz).
At one point, old William Strong stated his feelings on the matter, saying that the
government would do what it wanted anyway, no matter what the Indian people had to
say. He also said that when it came to something with money in it, we never could get
anything out of it anyway. The commissioners promised that if the agreement was signed,
future generations of tribal members would always be able to receive allotments from
unclaimed lands within the ceded area. They also promised that clear titles would be
given on the allotments within five years (the ones just recently assigned) instead of
waiting for the 25-year automatic trust period stipulated under the General Allotment Act.
George Harney spoke about the value of the timber on the remaining reservation
lands and wondered how that would be figured into the sale price. The commissioners
replied that the timber was in such steep ground and most of it so remote and isolated
that it had no market value and therefore would not affect the sale price.
The majority of the people finally decided that they had better accept the commission’s
terms and signed the agreement on Halloween Day - Oct. 31, 1892. I think there must
have been a feeling that the government would simply take the remaining lands as it had
done before if they didn’t accept the terms of the agreement.
In writing their final report to the secretary of the Interior, the commissioners
congratulated themselves on driving a close bargain - 74 cents an acre for 191,000*
acres. And in spite of what they told George Harney and the rest of our tribal people at
the negotiations, they wrote: “We found the lands mostly mountainous and densely
timbered with good fir and cedar trees, and well watered with rapid running streams,
which will furnish a good means of getting the timber and lumber out.”
Complicated designs of complex groups of politicians and businessmen are
sometimes hard to figure out, but not necessarily in the case of our 1892 agreement.
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