[63]. American Anthropologist, page 603, Vol. VII, No. 4.
[64]. Sec. 3662.
[65]. Sec. 3668.
[66]. Act of Feb. 28, 1887 (24 Statutes at Large, page 388).
[67]. In thirteen cases I found the land the Indians were occupying, that is, the more valuable little valleys, was outside of the reservation as laid out and in six of these cases the land occupied was not only unpatented and unprotected, but the land patented to the Indians was barren rocks, utterly worthless. In one case the reservation patented was six miles away from the land selected for the Indians in an entirely different township. In most cases the boundaries were not marked at all and the adjoining owners moved the lines over onto the Indians.
[68]. When Kelsey took charge he found on no reservation was there an adequate supply of water for irrigation and on most of them none at all. This in a country where irrigation is absolutely life. On no reservation was there any attempt made to protect the water supply, and land which controlled the water was carefully left out of the reservations in most cases. I think the surveyors must have done so knowingly. This meant fifteen or twenty years’ slow starvation for the Indians, and greatly increased difficulties later when we tried to correct things. I presume I have spent one-third of my time during the last ten years in fighting for things for the Southern California Indians, which ought to have been settled twenty years before.
TRANSCRIBER’S NOTES
- Fixed the issues mentioned in [Corrections].
- Added anchor for the footnote on p. [264].
- Changed “own Poor Lo” to “own Poor Lot” on p. [376].
- Changed “the Gila River w sh” to “the Gila River wash” on p. [428].
- Silently corrected typographical errors.
- Retained anachronistic and non-standard spellings as printed.