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Collection: Directories and Documents > Tanis Thorne Native Californian & Nisenan Collection

A Case Study of a Northern California Indian Tribe - Cultural Change to 1860 (1977) (109 pages)

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admitted that he did not know the quantity of cattle furnished to these Nisenan tribes who remained peaceful before and after the rejection of the treaties of 18511852,24° (See Disbursements Made by 0. M. Wozencraft, United States Indian Agent, From May 1, 1851 to August 30, 1852, Inclusive, p. 63 and Statement of Beef Furnished Nisenan by Direction of 0. M. Wozencraft, United States Indian Agent, September, 1852, De 64.) It is much to be regretted that Congress should refuse or neglect to pass the appropriation (ratify the treaties of 1851-1852) in order to carry out the policy adopted which has so far proven so successful. I fear it will be fraught with evil; indeed I do not see how the Indians can be kept at peace unless we show them some evidence of the sincerity of the promises of our good intentions toward them, 146 In the fall of 1852, Superintendent Beale announced the findings of his investigation of Wozencraft's treaty operations to Luke Lea, Commissioner of Indian Affairs. Wozencraft is under the impression that his board expenses e++-eWill be allowed (in spite of the rejection of the treaties of 1851-1852). He alleges that it was impossible to conduct his duties without such allowances being made, but I cannot find any provision of law for the admission of his claims. I will therefore disallow his account. It appears that the traders of Wozencraft (Mr. Norris and others) have allowed the beef either to remain unissued to the present time, or in some cases to escape in large droves....the cattle went instead to the miners, and the Indians continued to starve and commit depredations....as the Department does not recognize the beef transactions....and has protested the drafts it is under no obligation to buy them. 147 Superintendent Beale sent Redick Mckee, one of the three Indian agents appointed by the Federal Government to consummate the treaties of 1851-1852, into Nisenan territory to report on Nisenan-immigrant relations. Mckee discovered that foothill Nisenan in the Nevada City area of Nevada County were greatly disappointed by the nonfulfillment of the Camp Union Treaty. The Indians cannot understand why the treaties of 1851-1852 were annulled and the promises of the government not kept. Indians were generally still peaceful and inoffensive, however, miners and settlers in the area feared they would not remain so during the spp oschiing winter unless they were aided by our Department. Mckee stated that Nisenan Chiefs and respectable immigrant settlers in Nevada County 33