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Miscellaneous Indian Related Newspaper Articles (1852-1917) (20 pages)
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the Jevada Journal, Priday “orning, Septenber 10, 1852, pel Ha A Serge,
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ne Indians ang miian .vents
id Jourflal: Sip 2 your Paper of Sept Ist is an article on the subject
of the Indians and Indian Agency, which, thouch in Many respects well timedand of sone “mbortance, Operates to tie Prejudice of one of our best citizens,
I an not inclined to believe any injurz or disrespect to Persons not there
Naned was intended — but on She Contvary, its vublication was Probably procured
throuch the representations, or iiisrepresentations 0° & second person. That
Vavid Ddovyer would willinely assist in the Civilization and inprovement of
the ALLY AABA/ BAIA /d Social condition of the derraded heinrs te found here
Wien California was.first settled by uhites, I have no reason to doubt. But
that ‘ie has een the onli on> tarow:: tose aveney the Indians Nave received
benefits, or twhoCa consrol and inf uence then . or even that he is f oremost
in his qraliPications Ls an crvor., And in all probability af sense of his
om second rate mMalifications anq envy for the superior nerits of another
ave beer. stron inducduents with his in wishing to propagate the Opinion that
he is tie sole dictator of the -ndians in thas region. contemporary with Mr,
Jovyer has been i. Sinnon P. Storns WNO-at present is locatod Some eicht miles
eetest+a)
“e se Ol Vovada, *-€8SrS. Dovyer and COrMS Cana to California torether .
arrived i:: San "paneiseo tn July 109, Like other adventurers to vue land o2
Gold, ‘tia Spent a month op 60 it varions pursuits, during which time Mir,
Storms had Lo: med an acquaintance «rit: o1e Indians and their language byt
tavely attained, essrs, hendall and 0sman had locate: a tradinc post on the tt
south Yuba, in 10h OF ne carly-sart o 10) 9. On the 3rd day of October, ho, fort ow
COIS axl Dovyer, in connection with another tho soon aftor retirad, bough Ta acleg a.
nencell! and Co, 's ostablishnont and commenced wadin-, lr, Storms irith the
indians and Br. Bovyor «rth the whites, ind here let me sav, it is a wrong
Supression that there irre no obher white non in the vicinity at the time.
Suecessfr]. Operations 4 inin: vere coins on at Grass Valley, on Deer Creek,
Yoods' Navine » and on the Yuba in the imddiate vicinity,
Since that tine, he tite Oak Springs, has
Graied Lands several times, Sonctimes one, and Sometimes both havein: an interest
therein; and the rancho now occupied by Jovycr, wag located and improved hy
lessrs Storns and Vard in February ard 1: ren 1051, Tits » and his entire interest
in that ne “GNbor!o0d te: & transferred to if. Vovyer avout the 20th of June 151,
lin. Storms ontere. Sue service ‘o? Pa 9 ozencraft, Indian Commissioner, as
“peclal Jourpber and interpreter, tn tuis Canacity ir. Storns rendered our
goveriment agente Services wich 2; 't fou? any others cole do in collectin;:
COC CUP =tne..chiefgeand aad nen of 46. tribes; on tie Tuba and Pear River «
and throu ch hin the vere nade to «understand the wishes of our govenment. On E
quittine this enploymert . } Nered the service of “LY. Samuel Norris who. had 2
th arment bra suppl: whe Yoba ard Near River, and part of the J
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“catcher River “ndians with beef, Ravine thie enttte control of this business,
bs
in connect:.on
with the Indian
trading
establisiment
of Hessrs.
Norris
and
Lavell,
his intercourse
with the Indians
Nas such as to gain for him the confidence of all thore tribes inhabitin:
the revions
above named, by a strict
_a
adherence to justice, and oy Lirmness » Prudence, and a. steady-nerve-in any and
every case of enervency, Nas—cainodt a control Over then Possessed by no other
man in Novada Ccount;, or in Californias and without dispararri g the pretensions
~f others, he has unquestionably dono more to bring the Indians of this part
“wer California to a Pair Understanding with the unites than any otier man, The
Statement that the Indians, wherever “ou mect them, will refer to Bovyer as
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