While we know our northern friends may not feel it, in the South, Spring is
here. So we thought we'd share a few of our gardening sites appropriate
for this time of the year. Along with gardening, there's grilling, and getting
ready to diet so that you can fit back into that bathing suit this summer!
Boston Indian Citizenship Committee. An association for
the protection of the rights of Indians; organized in 1879 on the occasion of
the forcible removal of the Ponca. The tribe returned to their old home in South
Dakota from the reservation in Indian Territory. Chief Standing Bear, released
on a Writ of habeas corpus, went to Boston, and, on the plea that most of the
signatures in favor of removal were fraudulent, enlisted the sympathy of Hon.
John D. Long, then governor of Massachusetts, and other organizers of this
committee, who finally secured the rescission of the edict and the restoration
of the Dakota reservation. The committee undertook next to secure citizenship
for Indians on the basis of the payment of taxes, a principle that was finally
denied by the United States Supreme Court. When the Dawes bill granting land in
severalty and citizenship was enacted, the committee devoted its attention to
securing honest allotment. Since the organization of the Indian Rights
Association in Philadelphia the Boston committee has confined itself to securing
fair allotments of fertile lands, with adequate water supply, protecting
homesteads, and especially to defending and generally promoting the interests of
the more progressive bands of tribes that were backward in taking allotments. To
safeguard the rights of such and prevent the sale or lease of the best Indian
lands to whites at nominal prices, the committee has sought to obtain the
dismissal of corrupt Government agents and inspectors whenever such were
detected. Joshua W. Davis is chairman and J. S. Lock wood secretary (P. O. Box
131, Boston, Mass.)
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Handbook of American Indians North of Mexico, Frederick Webb Hodge, 1906
