Muskogee and northeastern Oklahoma, including the counties of Muskogee, McIntosh, Wagoner, Cherokee, Sequoyah, Adair, Delaware, Mayes, Rogers, Washington, Nowata, Craig, and Ottawa . ruggle, and still others say that I amplanning either war or a general exodus of my people to of these surmises disturbs me in the least, for I do not regardthem as more than the idle, passing wind. Yet, inasmuch as mysilence seems to annoy some people I will now ask you to give thepublic my views of the situation as I now see it. The United StatesGovernment has by its late acts of Congress abrogated t
Muskogee and northeastern Oklahoma, including the counties of Muskogee, McIntosh, Wagoner, Cherokee, Sequoyah, Adair, Delaware, Mayes, Rogers, Washington, Nowata, Craig, and Ottawa . ruggle, and still others say that I amplanning either war or a general exodus of my people to of these surmises disturbs me in the least, for I do not regardthem as more than the idle, passing wind. Yet, inasmuch as mysilence seems to annoy some people I will now ask you to give thepublic my views of the situation as I now see it. The United StatesGovernment has by its late acts of Congress abrogated the treatiesheretofore made with the Indians of the Indian Territory, disre-garding their wishes and ignoring their treaty rights. I feel thatthis is an assumption of power unauthorized by the organic lawsof the American Union, and simply a declaration, of war, whichwould be resisted as such if such treatment was attempted againstthe similar rights of any other nation other than the weak, de-fenseless tribes of the Indian Territory. In other words it is achallenge of power without affording the Indians any weapon ofdefense. The Indian is simply a target to stand up and be shot. ISPARHECHERNoted full blood Creek chief MUSKOGEE AND NORTHEASTERN OKLAHOMA 181 down. This is not fair. Let the Indian have an equal show and,if he then proves himself an unequal match, his defeat cannot becharged to unfairness. It has ever been the boast of Americansthat, above all other things, they love fair play—equal rights tothe humblest of her citizens, at all times—but I ask in all candor,is such the fact regarding the Indians at this time % Is it fair that the Creeks shall be denied the use of theirmoney to use as they please % Are they not free born, and entitledto the exercise of the rights guaranteed to a free people % Yet we,the Creeks, are denied the use of the means necessary to protectour rights in the courts of the United States. The great presidentof a free people says we cant have th
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