Gov. Evans has Declined to Make any Treaty with the Chiefs Brought in by Maj. Wynkoop.
Gov. Evans has Declined
to Make any Treaty
with the Chiefs
Brought in by Maj. Wynkoop.

494 LOUISIANA AND THE TRANS-MISSISSIPPI. (CHAP. LIII.

                                            DENVER, September 29, 1864.
Major-General CURTIS:
    A party of the most reliable chiefs of Cheyennes and Arapahoe tribes, brought in by Major Wynkoop, say a very large party of Minneconjou and other Sioux Indians from the north are now on the Republican,

CHAP. LIII.) CORRESPONDENCE, ETC.-UNION. 495

nearly opposite the Cottonwood; that they soon will strike the Platte and make for the settlements of Colorado. General Sully has doubtless driven them down upon us. We must have a strong force after them at once or we will be destroyed by their cutting off our communication.
                                                    JNO. EVANS,
                                                           Governor.

COLORADO SUPERINTENDENCY OF INDIAN AFFAIRS,

                                            Denver, September 29, 1864.
Major S. G. COLLEY,
        U. S. Indian Agent:
    SIR: The chiefs brought in by Major Wynkoop have been heard. I have declined to make any treaty with them, lest it might embarrass the military operations against the hostile Indians of the plains. The Arapahoe and Cheyenne Indians being now at war with the United States Government must make peace with the military authorities. Of course this arrangement relieves the Indian Bureau of their care until peace is declared with them, and as their tribes are yet scattered, and all except Friday's band are at war, it is not probable that it will be done immediately. You will be particular to impress upon these chiefs the fact that my talk with them was for the purpose of ascertaining their views and not to offer them anything whatever. They must deal with the military authorities until peace, in which case alone they will be in proper position to treat with the Government in relation to the future.
        I have the honor to be, very respectfully, your obedient servant,
                                                         JNO. EVANS,
                    Governor Colo. Ter. and ex-officio Supt. of Indian Affairs.


Source:

United States. War Dept., United States. Record and Pension Office., United States. War Records Office., et al., "Price's Missouri Expedition," The War of the Rebellion: A Compilation of the Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies. Published Under the Direction of the Honorable Daniel S. Lamont, Secretary of War. By Major George B. Davis, U. S. Army, Mr. Leslie J. Perry, Mr. Joseph W. Kirkley, Board of Publication. Series I - Volume XLI - In Four Parts. Part III-Correspondence, Etc. Washington: Government Printing Office. 1893. pp. 494-495.

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