We make treaties…and then leave swindlers…of all kinds to execute them. one of the intelligent students of the whole subject in congress rises in congress and says, "the fact is that these indians, with whom we have made a solemn treaty that their territory should not be invaded, and that they should receive supplies upon their reservations, have seen…gold miners…entering and occupying their territory, while the indians, owing to the failure of…congress to make adequate appropriations for the subsistence…have simply been starved." harpers weekly, 1876 editorial