Rutherford B. Hayes

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October 4, 1822 - Rutherford B. Hayes, 19th US President (Republican: 1877-81), born in Delaware, Ohio (d. 1893)
 

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Here is Hays Indian policies. He from the Indian police force to police the reservations. He wanted to asimulate Indians into western culture and clean up the Indian Bureau... @diane

 

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Thanks, 5fish! Nobody knows all this about Hayes - he's the dude set the stage for the Dawes Act. Pretty much still arguing that one... Hayes was one of the worst presidents for Indians ever.

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He came through Southern Oregon/Northern California in 1880 by stage coach and brought happy joy to the folks there by declaring his policy was the extinction of the Indian as an Indian. That became the policy of the Indian schools in the Pacific Northwest and elsewhere - save the man, kill the Indian.
 

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Here is some more... here is a link to Hays library on the topic of Indians, it picks up before and after his time in office about Indian schools, congress started passing laws governing American Indians no more treaties, and how reservation life bought despair...




When Rutherford B. Hayes entered the White House, Indian matters were considerably murkier than they appeared to Turner sixteen years later. The Census Bureau had estimated in 1870 that of the 383,712 United States Indians, 234,740 still roamed the western territories and states. Most nomads lived in Alaska (70,000), Arizona (27,700), Nevada (16,220), Montana (19,330), Dakota Territory (26,320), and in present-day Oklahoma (34,400).3 Washington officials worked energetically during the 1870s and 1880s to concentrate these wandering tribes on western reservations. Only then would expanding non-Indian pioneers (1) be free from attack by hostile tribes and (2) get title to extensive Indian land holdings. Only then could America’s aboriginal peoples be safeguarded. The "civilization or the utter destruction of the Indians is inevitable," predicted Commissioner of Indian Affairs John Q. Smith in 1876, unless they are "taught, and taught very soon, to accept the necessities of their situation and begin in earnest to provide for their own wants by labor in civilized pursuits."4

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By the end of Hayes’ presidency, the Indian wars were about over and the hostiles, crushed militarily, confined to reservations.5 What to do with them caused much anxiety in Washington and elsewhere in the country. Reservation life also became a pernicious ordeal for Native residents.
 
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