This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1879 edition. Excerpt: ... TO THE PEOPLE OF THE UNITED STATES, Those who love liberty and intend that their Government shall protect every man on its soil and execute justice between man and man, THIS NARRATIVE, With an Introduction, written by an Indian Qirl, of the wrongs suffered at the hands of the Government by the Ponoas, in consequence of which one-third of the tribe died within the last eighteen months, and the rest have endured and still endure cruel and wasting oppression, IS RESPECTFULLY DEDICATED, as a fair specimen of the system of injustice, oppression, and robbery which the Government calls "its Indian Policy;" which has covered it with disgrace as incompetent, cruel, faithless, never keeping its treaties, and systematically and shamelessly violating its most solemn promises: has earned the contempt and detestation of all honest men and the distrust and hate of the Indian tribes. Wekdell Phillips. INTRODUCTION. . This little book is only a simple narration of facts concerning some of my people. Many of the transactions recorded in it came under my own observation, my uncle, White Swan, being one of the chiefs who underwent so much suffering after being left in the Indian Territory. Wrongs more terrible than those related here have been practised on others of my people, but they have had no writer to make them known. I wish for the sake of my race, that I could introduce this little book into every home in the land, because in these homes lies the power to remedy the evil shown forth in these pages. The people are the power which move the magistrates who administer the laws. It is a little thing, a simple thing, which my people ask of a nation whose watchword is liberty; but it is endless in its consequences. They ask for their liberty, and law is...