Show THE CHEROKEE NATION interesting ACCOUNT OF HI HIS S PEOPLE BY A NATIVE CHEROKEE INDIAN NATION indian territory editor deseret news I 1 lately saw in the news k a cation from elder A kimball now on a mission in our country 1 I being a native wish to offer an amendment to or ora a substitute for the communication elder kimball says that the chero keasby blood number 1600 a very wide mistake indeed according to the LAST CENSUS taken jim in ju july 1886 they number the adopted adepts citizens whites negroes Muco gees Pela Dela wares wires and ad number a grand rand total of 26 citizens of the 0 cherokee it erolee nation elder kimball says pays we own acres of land we cherokees are like most all indians we own our lands in common no person has an individual deed to his part of the land but holds as much as he he is able to fence and no more we had a fee simple title and patent granted in 1835 to a fraction over acres but after the close of the late war iu in the united states the authorities of our people were called to washington slid and made a new treaty in 1806 1866 in that treaty we w cintr contracted acted to the government acres what is known as the cherokee cherokee outlet set apart as a huntin bunting ground that part has been set apart lor for the use of the U V S government to settle friendly indians indiana upon several small bands have been located on that laud land the rena remainder tuder WE HOLD jurisdiction OVER until settled by friendly indians we have let it out to a firm of meu men who have cattle grazing on it tor for which they pay to the cheroke Che rokes nation annually in installments of every six months in what is included within cherokee limits there is a little the raise of acres the cherokees proper are about equally divided between full blow blood and mixed with white blood we have common schools and tw two jarge and commodious seminaries one for males undone and one for females with a of pupils in each we have an institute for orphans it is called the orphans Orphan sHome home the hein inmates include both male and female they go to school and number all the schools and the orphan asylum are supported by the nation our annual council makes an appropriation to run all the schools for one year our interest on THE RUND placed in government bonds amounts to a year besides other revenues collected by our officers and the lease mone money making a grand total of about if the U S gover Government men t aspea speaking skin of the congress at washington agton D DC would allow us to enact on our r own legislation at home we would be a as inde pendent as any natt nation on the american continent but it looks as though we are classed with the mormons cormons Mor mons because of our weakness and because they have the power hut but we must bear with it as a tried people god will not allow us to suffer for years under bondage respectfully W H HENDRICKS |