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1 A Brief Statement of the Indian Rights Association, Its Objects, Methods and Achievements 1 (1907)

handle is hein.amindian/bobjec0001 and id is 1 raw text is: INDIAN RIGHTS ASSOCIATION, 709 PROVIDENT BUILDING, PHILADELPHIA, MAY 25, 1907. A BRIEF STATEMENT OF THE INDIAN RIGHTS ASSOCIATION, ITS OBJECTS, METHODS AND ACHIEVEMENTS. The Association.is a non-political, non-sectarian body of piiblic-spirited men and women. It was organized in Philadelphia, 'December I5, i882, as a resultvof a visit of Messrs. Henry S. Pancoast and Herbert Welsh to the Sioux Indians, by about thirty gentlemen, who met in response to an invitation from the late Hon. John Welsh- to take into consideration the best method of producing such public feeling and Congressional action as shall secure to our Indiai population civil rights and general education, - * * * and if time bring about the complete civilization of the Indians and their admission to citizenship. As defined by its constitution, the object of the Association is to secure to the Indians of the United States the political and civil rights already guaranteed to them by treaty and statutes of the United States, and such as their civilization and 'circumstances may justify. In the beginning of its work, to qudte from a recent annual report, the civilized Indian was the exception rather than the nile. The brutal expression 'the only good Indian is a dead Indian' seemed to represent the prevailing sentiment of the time. The country over which the red man roamed was sparsely settled. Outbreaks were taken as a matter of course, and comparatively little attention was paid to his rights or wr6ngs. Ignorance concerning the Indian and his affairs was dense and widespread. When the tide of emigratioji swept west- ward, and settlers, good and bad, began crowding the Indians more and more con- ditions materially changed. It was evident that wise measures'should be adopted, whereby the Indian could be adapted to his new environment, and eventually be- come a part of it. To accomplish this it was necessary that public sentiment should be aroused by a vigorous agitation. * * * * It was also necessary to secure an accurate knowledge of actual conditions, which could only be done by frequent visits to the Indian country. This information then had to be brought to the attention of the public in order to exert a sufficient pressure upon Congress and the Executive to secure prompt and, reasonable attention. This was done by the dissemination of information obtained through the meditim of pamphlets and leaflets and through the columns of the public press. 'The work progressed slowly Reproduction by Permmission of Buffalo & Erie County Public Library Buffalo, NY

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