* Moved by Richard Smith
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 Area : HOLYSMOKE
 Date : May 21 '98, 00:31
 From : Day Brown                                               1:270/615
 To   : all
 Subj : Osage 2
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 :::A general Indian war on the Frontier would endanger many white
 settlers who had by time become more numerous.  Government officials
 feared a general war would exterminate the Osages and the victorious
 allied Indians, intoxicated with victory, might turn their vengeance
 upon the whites. :::
 :::In the meantime the Cherokees and their allies continued their
 preparations for war.  When the Delawares were again contacted on
 the subject of a peace conference, they replied that they had often
 before signed peace treaties with the Osages to please their Great
 White Father knowing all the time the Osages would break their
 treaty.  They complained that they were robbed and murdered by the
 Osages after such treaties and were never safe from their treacher-
 ous foe. They declared that they would rather die as brave warriors
 in a battle of extermination than sign a worthless treaty.  Even the
 threat of using the army to punish them did not alter their position.:::
 Despite this, Elmo says a peace was signed; with *some* groups;
 however, just as the Chief lacked the power to control warriors
 well enough to make sure a treaty was honored, your Great White
 Father lacked control over this frontier region, infested as it
 was with criminals who saw an opportunity of booty by joining a
 disorganized army of allied tribal warriors against the Osage.
 After all the dust settles, Elmo shows a map of Kansas, with an
 array of reservations on the Eastern end for the Kickapoos, the
 Delaware, Shawnee, Peoria, Weas & Plankashaw, and Miami.  I saw
 none for the Osage.  I assume he was being discreet, avoiding a
 charge of genocide against the Allied tribes.  It's also pretty
 obvious, that whites are not the only ones who break treaties.
 The only reason I have this book is that it was in a house here
 that I lived in.  Naturally, I had in interest in the Ozarks.
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 Naturam expellas furca,
 tamen usque recurret.
 Richard Smith
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