JOINT RESOLUTIONS.

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Indian Territory — Keep all intruders out of the

territory; continue the self-government of the civilized

tribes; let them regulate their own land tenure law ;

enact suitable laws to protect life and property on

reservations; make them flexible in detail; administer

them through department orders approved by the

President; promptly and rigidly enforce them; indi-

vidualize the punishment of crime; never hold the

tribe liable for the crimes of its members; organize an

efficient Indian police force on every reservation.

Indian Department — Create a separate Indian de-

partment under a civilian secretary; grant plenary

emergency powers to the President; have all agencies

frequently inspected fly appointees of the President,
well paid and unconnected with the Indian depart-

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ment; carefully regulate the powers and duties of

Indian agents; give them permanent positions and lib-

eral salaries; keep them free from political influence ;

let their subordinates be appointed by the department ;
all questions of general policy and treatment to be set-

tled by the department; no individual experiments by

theoretical agents to be permitted; abolish all privi-

leged traderships; destroy all traffic in liquors;

control the sale of arms and ammunition; in all else

let there be free trade; let all military posts be main-

tained separate and apart from the Indian villages, and

preserve absolute non-intercourse between the soldiers

and the Indians.

No Removals — Remove no more tribes except

where the soil and climate require it and the change

is voluntary; civilize the Indians where they are.

Education — Educate the entire Indian reservation

population; teach the children in boarding, manual

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labor schools on the reservations; make them farmers

and graziers; give all the bands an abundance of

cattle; teach them trades; instruct them in the laws

of health; show them how to live; neutralize the

influence of the medicine man; make work compul-

sory.

Lands in Severally — On reservations, divide land

in several ty as soon as Indians can farm them; make

them inalienable and non-taxable for a time; sell the

surplus lands for the benefit of the tribe; elsewhere

grant government lands in several ty (on same terms)

to all Indians who can cultivate them.

Citizenship — Give citizenship to all self-supporting

Indians who ask for it.