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H. Craig Miner explains that after the massive and robust railway, cattle, coal, and oil businesses learned the potential for Indian Territory, they sought to go into the world and make the most of its typical assets. The tribes, suffering from a scarcity of unified goal, observed their losses take place prior to any powerful safety strategy may be validated. simply because many whites married to Indians and mixed-blood individuals of the tribes have been all in favour of their very own monetary improvement, their judgements have been of long-term profit to the corporations.
In this detailed, pioneering learn, Miner reinforces his argument that Indian-white coexistence via marketplace negotiation used to be proposal by means of each side to be attainable in 1865. both sides had issues the opposite sought after, and there has been no sympathy for taking Indian estate via army strength. but the historical past of kinfolk among the company and the Indian grew to become a historical past of accelerating political intervention to implement a number of summary ideas to the "Indian Question.''
The company and the Indian leaves the powerful influence that, whereas the Indians may have performed no greater had their very own stratagems in facing American enterprises been allowed to increase extra freely, they rarely may have performed any worse.
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17664, Choctaw Federal Relations File, IAD. I. M. Tibbets to D. N. Cooley, March 30, 1866, SF 125 OIA, M 574, R 24, F 03960402. 10. AR CIA, 1864, p. 3. S. state or territory. " "Whatever can properly be done by the government of the United States," wrote Cooley, "in paving the way for these improvements should . . "11 Silas Armstrong, representing the Wyandottes at Fort Smith, was well aware of this trend and doused talk among tribesmen about being taken up onto a high mountain by Satan. He told fellow Indians that the only basis for unity in future was that "we are all in the suds" and that the only possible strategy was to try to adapt to industry.
G. M. Walker and S. P. Heddon saw Cherokee chief William Ross in October and reported that he gave them information and assistance. Others were friendly to the degree of pointing out coal outcrops, which the surveyors marked for future reference. "All with whom we conversed," they wrote, "either at 4. V. V. Masterson, The Katy Railroad, p. 16. N. S. Goss to O. H. Browning, Jan. 3, 1867, LR OIA Cherokee Agency, M 234, R 101, F 028390. 5. Richard Fields, W. P. Adair, J. A. Scales to N. C. Taylor, April 15, 1867, LR OIA Cherokee Agency, M 234, R 101, F 022426.
S. government thirty-fifth parallel surveying expedition marked out a rail line in Indian Territory. In 1857, Thaddeus Hyatt, presumably in Kansas to promote the antislavery cause, took young Robert S. Stevens with him to Indian Territory to examine possibilities for constructing a railroad. " None, it was said, could or should be effectively restrained by the Indian Office. A congressman in 1852 said, ''The Indian is placed between the upper and nether millstones and must be crushed. . " Col.
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