Commissioner of Indian Affairs
1886

“[…] Everything in the way of persuasion and argument having failed, it became necessary to visit the camps unexpectedly with a detachment of police, and seize such children as were proper and take them away to school, willing or unwilling. Some hurried their children off to the mountains or hid them away in camp, and the police had to chase and capture them like so many wild rabbits.

This unusual proceeding created quite an outcry. The men were sullen and muttering, the women loud in their lamentations, and the children almost out of their wits with fright. […]”

Source(s):

Adams, Education for Extinction, p. 211; Annual Report of the Commissioner of Indian Affairs (Washington, DC: Government Printing Office, 1886), p. 417