Further Information Respecting The Aborigines; Containing Reports Of The Committee On Indian Affairs At Philadelphia, Extracts From The Proceedings Of The Yearly Meetings Of Philadelphia, New York, New England, Maryland, Virginia, And Ohio. Together With

by Aborigines' Committee Of The Meeting for Sufferings

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Book desription: London, , 1842. 1st edition. Rmvd. from a bd. vol., modern wrprs. . V. light browning. A fine, beautiful copy. 8vo. The Committee to transmit to Friends [ie. Quakers] info. received about Aboriginal inhabitants of distant parts where they have come into contact with white settlers and traders detailing the aggravated sufferings and oppressions inflicted upon them. Regarding the Indians of North America, is Indian Report of Committee of Yearly Meeting in Philadelphia, letters received from Tunesassah, May 5, 1840 signed by ten chiefs, also a letter from the Senecas residing at Tonawanda (refers to "help of Great Spirit") about Indians keeping possession of their lands & refers to a group of land speculators known as the Ogden Co. The Senecas want the President of the U.S. to know the Indians are for peace & ask only the possession of their just rights (nuch more). Plus much by the Friends residing at Tunesassah on the Indians 'agricultural pursuits.Two members of the Committee had interviews w/ the President to give him correct info. about unjust means by which the treaty w/ the Senecas had been procured. W/ info. on the farms at Tunessah managed by Quakers and on the Indian agricultural pursuits. Also the Indians have shown increased interest in education & temperance. Prntg. of extract from a Friend's letter re: council of Aleghany Indians at Cold Spring to promote temperance. Discussion of the trouble brought by encroachment of whites on Indian soil. John Meader, a Quaker minister from N. England is on a religious visit to the Indians west of the Mississippi, & Friends have offered to visit the Indians there. W/ prntg. of dcmt. furnished to Meader by Gvmt. & signed by the Commiss. of Indian Affairs. A 2nd long letter addressed to the Indians on Meader's visit ("he believes the Great Spirit will be pleased") and that Meader intends to deal with them justly. Also speaks of evils of whiskey: "The great evil and destroyer of the human race is whiskey" ("fire-waters"). Letters from 1842 about Quaker ministers visiting the Indians. References to travelling south to the Red River on the borders of Texas, also another visiting Michigan. Also letter from Thomas Kimber about the Cherokee Indians (refers to the policy of President Jackson), military posts among them about to be established. Kimber refers to his contact w/ Jesse Busheyhead, a half-blood Cherokee, the Cherokee expulsion from Georgia. Many more details incl. the present condition of the Cherokees numbering 2,000, their various Christian churches, their dressing like whites, adoption of English, opening of schools, abandoning of the chase, use of steamboats to run on the Arkansas River to New Orleans. Also details & number of the Choctaws (12,000) and Creeks (20,000) who border the Cherokees. Both of these tribes are making rapid advances toward civilization. Efforts to admit Indian delegates as repres. of tribes in Congress have been frustrated. Regarding Canadian Indians, much on Indians of Nova Scotia, Hudson's Bay, the NW coast, the Columbia, & their deplorable condition.The late chaplain at the Hudson's Bay Co. settlement, Herbert Beaver, has written to the Committ. of the Aborigines' Protection Soc. about these natives & their condition. Discusses residing at settlements on Columbia River of Hudson's Bay Co. & at Ft. Vancouver, the Company's principal depot west of the Rocky Mts. from Sept. 1836 to end of Oct. 1838. W/i 90 miles of Ft. Vancouver there are 12 Indian tribes. W/ much on the Chinooks, also reports in 1836 six Indians were murdered by a party of trappers & sailors who landed from a Hudson's Co. vessel between the mouth of the Columbia & California. A Sandwich Islander was flogged, 8 1/2pp. on natives in New Holland w/ long report of Captain Grey, Gov. of South Australia. His letter has 37 parts, Plus 7pp. report from New Zealand, & 2/3 pg. on Tasmania or Van Dieman's Land. A rare & impt. pamphlet.

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