Letter from President Theodore Roosevelt to Secretary of the Interior E. A. Hitchcock
This item includes a letter enclosing a communication from Hamlin Garland, who introduces Louis Premeau of Standing Rock Reservation and the issue of leasing of the Indian land. A transcript of George H. Bigenheimer appearing before the Senate Committee
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OCR Page 1 of 6an income for the Indians, by allowing the land to
be leased to cattlemen, whereas at present the
purifore
cattle of the whites graze over it free.
most commendable. But I do not want to see the
leases treated as more than temporary expedients,
for our whole aim should be ultimately to turn the
Indians into productive occupiers of their own lands,
and the leases should be drawn always with this as
the primary end in view.
Theodore Rossever
Enclosure.
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