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The Republican Compiler (Gettysburg, PA)
20 Aug 1823 Page 1
Information arrived in town a few days ago (says the Monticello Gazette Mississippi, June 21st) that war had been
declared between the Choctaws and Creek Indians, but it was not ascertained which nation declared war, or when
hostilities would take place.
[Submitted by Nancy Piper]
Republican Compiler (Gettysburg, Pennsylvania)
November 24, 1824
Indian Disputes
Not long since, it was reported that a war party, composed of Ottawas and Pottawatamies, were assembling in the
vicinity of Fort Wayne, for the purpose of avenging themselves on the Miamies, for some murders which had been
committed by them, unless they would consent to an amicable arrangement of the dispute. We have just learnt from
Mr. Belcher, recently from Fort Wayne, that the dispute is settled – the Miamies having paid the injured parties
$5,000.
We also learn from Mr. B. that a quantity of goods belonging to the American Fur Company, valued at $6,000 has
been recently seized by an agent of the Indian Department for an alleged infringement on the law regulating trade
with the Indians, on the part of those who had the goods in possession. – Balt. Fed. Gaz.
[Submitted by Nancy Piper]
Republican Compiler (Gettysburg, PA)
June 15, 1825
We learn from the Detroit Gazette of May 10, that Governor Cass left that
place on Saturday, the 7th for Wapaghkunnetta, Ohio, to treat with the Delawares, Shawness, Wyandots, and Senecas
on the subject of removing from Ohio to the west side of the Mississippi. It is expected that he will return to
Detroit about the 10th of June, when he will immediately depart for Prairie du Chien, where he will meet with the
Sioux, Chippeways, Menominies, Sacks, Foxes, Ioways, Winnebagoes, &c. for the purpose of fixing some definite
boundaries for the several tribes and thus check in a measure their frequent quarrels.
[Submitted by Nancy Piper]
THE DAWES COMMISSION
Instructions have been issued by Secretary Smith to the five member of the Dawes Commission to meet at South McAllester
on May 1 next and organize for work. The last congress raised the number of commissioners from 3 to 5 and appropriated
$3000 for its works. As each commissioner receives $5,000 a year, the sum will be enough to carry on the work for
about one year. The duties of the commission are to confer with the Creeks, Chickasaws, Choctaws, Cherokees, and
Seminoles with a view to persuading them to relinquish the tribal system and accept their lands in severalty so
that they may be sooner or later organized into a state of the union.
[Hamilton News Press - Marion county, AL - April 25, 1895 - Transcribed and submitted by Veneta McKinney]
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