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VOL. 12 AUGUST 13, 1909. NO. 8
Poor Quileutes.
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Taholah, Wash, Aug. 4, 1909.
Editor of the Ocean Wave:
In recent issues of various newspapers
in the Grays Harbor country, it was
stated that F. R. Archer, United States
alloting agent of the lands in this reser
vation had completed his work. He has
made 580 assignments of land to the In
dians, and reports about 15 candidates
whose claims have not yet been located.
Forty members of the Quileute tribe have
made aplication for land on the reserva
tion, but their cases have been reported
to the Indian office, at Washington, D. O,
and pending this decision the Quileute
will not be given land. But, be cheerful,
Quileute, there's truth in the world yet.
Poor Indians, they have many disad
vantages. They lost their only rights in
this wide world of ours for being de
barred from obtaining lands in this res
ervation. This was their very last op
portunity in the world to secure lands.
The coming generation will have no op
portunity to prove to the world their
skill and ability in the farming industry.
It may sesm , strange to men of
thoughtful minds to realize that the?e
Indians have eventually lost their rights,
for unknown reasons. Their ancestors
the leading men of the tribe were
the first ones to set their hands on the
treaty document made in 1855 and 1850
in the presence of Gov. Isaac I. .Stevens,
when this state . was a territory. The
record shows plainly that the Quileute
delegation had more men who signed
the treaty, but how did it happen that
these Indians were excluded from the
allotment of lands? They have sup-'
ported the articles vested in the treaty
document, but they neither bought any
more slaves nor made war with other
Indian tribes, alter the said treaty.
They have waited and waited for years
to be granted their rights, until the
end placed them beyond consideration.
The intelligence of some of these In
dians is superior to other Pacific coast
tribes, but had they been treated justly
they would have proved themselves
more intelligent than all Pacific coast
tribes, in agricultural, industrial and
educational pursuits. The only way
they can make a living now, is to work
for the settlers, but the work does not
last a year round. They do little vege-
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