. Annual report of the Bureau of American Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution. nt to Texas for trial and punishment (see the calendar). In 1872 another Commissioner declared that the point had beenreached where forbearance had ceased to be a virtue, and again recom-mended that the three tribes be turned over to the military for pun-ishment. He states that a wholesome example is absolutely necessaryto command obedience, asserting that so long as four-fifths of thesetribes take turns at raiding into Texas, openly and boastfully bringingback scalps and spoils to their reserv
. Annual report of the Bureau of American Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution. nt to Texas for trial and punishment (see the calendar). In 1872 another Commissioner declared that the point had beenreached where forbearance had ceased to be a virtue, and again recom-mended that the three tribes be turned over to the military for pun-ishment. He states that a wholesome example is absolutely necessaryto command obedience, asserting that so long as four-fifths of thesetribes take turns at raiding into Texas, openly and boastfully bringingback scalps and spoils to their reservation, eftbrts to inspire very highideas of social and industrial life among the communities of which theraiders form so large a part will presumably result in failure. At thesame time their agent reports that, although they had come regularlyfor their rations during the preceding winter and spring, givingrepeated assurance of amity and peace, yet so soon as their horseswere in condition in summer the Kiowa had gone on the warpath, tak-ing with them a large number of the Comanche and Apache, and. 00 «3 to 00 Io < Q- o z CCQ.
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