Indians: lands granted in perpetuity, 18; participation in American Civil War inevitable, 18; as emigrants, 19; number of colonized, 20-21; proportion of southern to northern, 21; slaves enticed away by abolitionists, 23; seized as fugitives by southern men, 23; interests militated indirectly against by Dred Scott decision, 29; territorial form of government for, 30, _footnote_, 31, _footnote_; treaty rights likely to be seriously affected by repeal of Missouri Compromise, 34; plan for colonizing Texas, 52, 55; Knights of Golden Circle active among, 68; condition of, reported by Texas commissioners, 94; Choctaw and Chickasaw friendly to Confederate States, 100, _footnote_; enlistment, 132, 147-149, 155, 181, _footnote_, 207, 210, 211-212, 227, _footnote_, 248, 250, 252, _footnote_, 270, 275, 279; treaties with Confederate States, 157-158, 202-206; judicial rights under treaties with Confederate States, 172-174; military support secured early by Confederacy, 207; use of, by U. S. as soldiers uncertain, 227 _et seq._; not subject to conscription, 228, _footnote_; reported arming themselves on southern border of Kansas, 228, _footnote_; conference with Lane at Fort Lincoln, 230; totally abandoned by U. S. government, 262, _footnote_; see also under names of individual nations and tribes Interior Department: 53, 80, 218, _footnote_, 242, 265, 273 Interlopers: encourage slavery within Indian country, 22; see also _Intruders_ Inter-tribal Conference: documents relating to, called by the Chickasaws, 68, _footnote_; assembling of, at Creek Agency, 70; attendance, 71; action, 71-72; action not officially reported to U. S. government, 82; Motey Kennard and Echo Harjo in Washington at time, was planned, 192; Indians solicit, 209, _footnote_; Lane arranges for, to meet at Fort Lincoln, 243, 246; Coffin desires, at Humboldt, 247; plans for, at Leroy, 248; Hunter instructed to hold, 250; difference between, as planned by Lane and by Hunter, 250, _footnote_; John T. Cox gives account of, 262, _footnote_ Interview: of Pike and McCulloch with Cherokee Confederate sympathizers, 135, _footnote_, 152; of Lane with representatives of various tribes at Fort Lincoln proposed, 243, 246; of Coffin with Carruth, 243, _footnote_; of Carruth with Creek delegation, 245 Intrigue: and diplomacy to effect Seminole removal from Florida, 20, _footnote_; Pike expected to succeed in, with Southern Indians, 86, _footnote_