III. TESTIMONIES TO INDIAN CHARACTER 374 IV. OUTRAGES COMMITTED ON INDIANS BY WHITES 381 V. EXTRACTS FROM THE REPORT OF THE COMMISSION SENT TO TREAT WITH THE SIOUX CHIEF SITTING BULL, IN CANADA 386 VI. ACCOUNT OF SOME OF THE OLD GRIEVANCES OF THE SIOUX 389 VII. LETTER FROM SARAH WINNEMUCCA, AN EDUCATED PAH-UTE WOMAN 395 VIII. LAWS OF THE DELAWARE NATION OF INDIANS 396 IX. ACCOUNT OF THE CHEROKEE WHO INVENTED THE CHEROKEE ALPHABET 404 X. PRICES PAID BY WHITE MEN FOR SCALPS 405 XI. EXTRACT FROM TREATY WITH CHEYENNES IN 1865 406 XII. WOOD-CUTTING BY INDIANS IN DAKOTA 407 XIII. SEQUEL TO THE WALLA WALLA MASSACRE 407 XIV. AN ACCOUNT OF THE NUMBERS, LOCATION, AND SOCIAL AND INDUSTRIAL CONDITION OF EACH IMPORTANT TRIBE AND BAND OF INDIANS WITHIN THE UNITED STATES 411 XV. REPORT ON THE CONDITION AND NEEDS OF THE MISSION INDIANS OF CALIFORNIA 458 PREFACE. I have been requested to write a preface to this sad story of "A Century of Dishonor." I cannot refuse the request of one whose woman's heart has pleaded so eloquently for the poor Red men. The materials for her book have been taken from official documents. The sad revelation of broken faith, of violated treaties, and of inhuman deeds of violence will bring a flush of shame to the cheeks of those who love their country. They will wonder how our rulers have dared to so trifle with justice, and provoke the anger of God. Many of the stories will be new to the reader. The Indian owns no telegraph, employs no press reporter, and his side of the story is unknown to the people. Nations, like individuals, reap exactly what they sow; they who sow robbery reap robbery. The seed-sowing of iniquity replies in a harvest of blood. The American people have accepted as truth the teaching that the Indians were a degraded, brutal race of savages, whom it was the will of God should perish at the approach of civilization. If they do not say with our Puritan fathers that these are the Hittites who are to be driven out before the saints of the Lord, they do accept the teaching that manifest destiny will drive the Indians from the earth. The inexorable has no tears or pity at the cries of anguish of the doomed race. Ahab never speaks kindly of Naboth, whom he has robbed of his vineyard. It soothes conscience to cast mud on the character of the one whom we have wronged.