Show famous stockbridge hidge indians are to go west to abandon their tribal D DECIDING form of government and adopt the white roans mans way of 0 doing things the tha remnant of the stockbridge tribe of indians numbering men women and children will shortly become citizens at 0 wisconsin and cease to be under the supervision and guardianship of the federal government the stockbridge indians will have a whole township to themselves eat east of lake winnebago and other land that the government intends giving them already they are planning g the organization of a town government and they have written to various federal and tato state officials about the state tor for information respecting civil go government ern ment parliamentary practice and whatever else may be useful to them tn in solving the problems before them originally the stockbridge indians indiana were wera a part of the mohican confederacy and were known under the name of housatonic when the pilgrim fathers landed at plymouth hock bock the Stock bridges occupied part of the housatonic valley at berkshire hills mass soon after the famous missionary sio nary stry sergeant went to work among them they were ere collected on a trad tract reserved nerved re by the english government the french and indian war which broke out in 1754 marked the beginning of 0 the decline of the stock bridges they sided aided with the french and thus aroused the ire of many other indian tribes at the close of at the war they were forced to move partly because became the war had reduced their numbers and partly because the new englanders desired they should leave that community their number reduced to a beggarly GUESS ILL band of and their villages pillaged and burned by their enemies it wae mail with joy that they accepted the invitation in 1785 to join the oneidas in oneida and madison counties count fes new york the interior department hits has given its approval of 0 the plan and the are planning to lay aside soon the tha blanket tepee and other marks of the only real american and take lake up the white mans ditties la in 1883 1983 the oneida and stockbridge indians indiana joined forces after being gradually driven westward by the march of civill Lation for a century and settled on a tract 0 at land near the head bead of green day bay which they had purchased from the Afe nominees since that date they have become one tribe and aro are known as the stockbridge after years of weltering bickering between factions of the tribe which fought constantly over the question of occur ing I 1 UK individual allotments of land or establishing a ip and living in one community the proponents of the township idea hive have won out and the result Is a decision to have abat re mains of their original land est of 0 lake winnebago and what the government intends giving them reserved reier ved rd for this purpose |