Post by hermin1 on Mar 5, 2011 12:04:10 GMT -5
3 Surprisingly few facts have been discovered concerning the preliminaries that must have led to this appropriation. The Shakopee Argus, July 24, 1884, credits Strait with the insertion of the item in the Indian appropriations act.
4 U.S. Statutes at Large, XXIII, 87, 375; Robert B. Henton to Commissioner John H. Oberly, December 31, 1888, NARS, RG 75, LR. The directive from the Indian Office specified that the appropriations were intended "for the benefit of those of the Mdewakanton Band, who remained faithful to the whites during the outbreak of 1862-3, and thereby incurred the enmity of other Indians, and for the descendants of those friendly Indians."
4 U.S. Statutes at Large, XXIII, 87, 375; Robert B. Henton to Commissioner John H. Oberly, December 31, 1888, NARS, RG 75, LR. The directive from the Indian Office specified that the appropriations were intended "for the benefit of those of the Mdewakanton Band, who remained faithful to the whites during the outbreak of 1862-3, and thereby incurred the enmity of other Indians, and for the descendants of those friendly Indians."
