Wattles, Augustus: 229, _footnote_ Waul, Thomas N: 127, 205 Weas: from Illinois, 19 Weber's Falls: 86, _footnote_ Welch, George W: 84, _footnote_ West Florida: seizure of, 28 West Point: 215, _footnote_ Wheelock: Choctaw school, 39, _footnote_ White, Joseph: 209, _footnote_ White, S. W: letter of, 33, _footnote_ White Cloud: 227, _footnote_ Whitney, Henry C: 208 and _footnote_ Whittenhall, Daniel S: 350 Wichita Agency: site for, 54, 56, _footnote_, 136, _footnote_; attack upon, 329, _footnote_ Wichita Mountains: 51, 55 Wichita Treaty: 157, _footnote_, 158, 163, 176 Wichitas: 52; colonization of, 55; subsistence given to, 57, _footnote_; Leased District of, 63; colonized on land claimed as their own, 166; Pike hopes to meet, 189, _footnote_; Pike fears hostility of, 200; refuse to be cajoled or intimidated, 201 Wilson, Henry: work cited, 32, _footnote_ Wilson, William: 23, _footnote_ Wilson's Creek: battle of, 225 Winneconne: 219, _footnote_ Wisconsin: tribes from, 19 Wolcott, Edward: 273, _footnote_ Worcester, Reverend S. A: 23, _footnote_; opposed to slavery, 41 Wyandots: from Ohio and Michigan, 19; William Walker, head chief of, 22, _footnote_; initiate movement for organization of Nebraska Territory, 34; interested in Kansas election troubles, 34, _footnote_; Methodism, 38 Yancton Sioux: Agent Burleigh suggests that garrison Fort Randall, 227, _footnote_ Young, William C: 100 Yulee, David L: 238, _footnote_ FOOTNOTES: [1] Confessedly much to its discredit, the United States government has never had, for any appreciable length of time, a well-developed and well-defined Indian policy, one that has made the welfare of the aborigines its sole concern. Legislation for the subject race has almost invariably been dictated by the needs of the hour, by the selfish and exorbitant demands of pioneers, and by the greed and caprice of politicians. [2] There were, of course, other indigenous tribes to the westward, in the direction of Colorado and Texas, and to the northward, in southern Nebraska; but only the latter were more than remotely affected, as far as local habitation was concerned, by the coming of the eastern emigrants and the consequent introduction of the reservation system. [3] Kansas Historical Society _Collections_, vol. viii, 72-109.