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Excerpt from Thirtieth Annual Report of the Board of Indian Commissioners, 1898
Sir: We have the honor to submit the Thirtieth Annual Report of the Board of Indian Commissioners.
No change in the membership of the board has occurred during the last year, and no serious trouble among the Indians has been reported except the con?ict with the Pillager band of Chippewas on Bear Island in Leech Lake, Minnesota - a con?ict which resulted in the death of Maj. M. C. Wilkinson and six soldiers. The number of Indians Slain is not known. The death of Major Wilkinson is deeply deplored. He was a gallant officer, having served in the civil war, in the Nez Perce campaign with General Howard, and in the recent Spanish war. He had been a lifelong friend of the Indians, and when detailed for the Indian school service organized the Forest Grove Industrial School, removed since to Chemawa, Oreg. He had almost reached the age for retirement, and was hoping to engage again in benevolent work for Indians.
The causes of the sudden and deplorable Chippewa outbreak are found in a long series of abuses and frauds in the management, or mis management, of their timber lands, and in harsh, if not unjust, treat ment in connection with prosecutions for whisky sales to Indians.
The beginning of the trouble relating to lands and timber dates back to the act of Congress approved January 14, 1889, entitled An act for the relief and civilization of the Chippewa Indians in the State of Minnesota. The purpose and intent of the act appears to be just and fair, but in its execution it has proved to be not an act for the relief, but for impoverishing and robbing the Indians.
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