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Jose Panto, Captian of the Indian Pueblo of San Pascual (15 pages)
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JOSE PANTO 157
SAN PASQUAL VALLEY
1867
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Fig. 2. Indian pueblo of San Pasqual ca. 1867 (after Whiting 1869).
to inquire into their condition and to ascertain if
anything could be done by the Government to
aid them.
The villagers began to assemble early. At
the appointed hour the captain rose, and in a
short speech in the Indian language, which
seemed to be both eloquent and _ well
appreciated, gave his hearers to understand the
errand upon which I visited them. A lively
interest was manifested by every one. They
complained of the encroachments of their
American neighbors upon their land, and
pointed to a house near by, built by one of the
more adventurous of his class, who claimed to
have pre-empted the land upon which the larger
part of the village lies. On calling upon the
man afterward, I found that such was really the
case, and that he had actually paid the price of
the land to the register [registrar] of the
land-office of this district, and was daily
expecting the patent from Washington. He
owned it was hard to wrest from these welldisposed and industrious creatures the homes
they had built up. “‘But,’’ said he, ‘‘if I had not
done it somebody else would, for all agree that
the Indian has no right to public lands.’’ These
Indians further complain that settlers take
advantage of them in every way possible;
employ them to work and insist on paying them
in trifles that are of no account to them; ‘‘dock’’
them for imaginary neglect, or fail entirely to
pay them; take up their stock on the slightest
pretext and make exorbitant charges for damages
and detention of the stock seized. They are in