Excerpt from Report of the Committee for the Gradual Civilization of the Indian Natives, Made to the Yearly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends: Held in Philadelphia, in the Fourth Month, 1838 In our report last year we informed the Yearly Meeting that, owing to the failure of the creps, six hundred dollars had been expended by direction of the committee, in the purchase of corn and pota toes, for the relief of such of the natives as had not otherwise the means of support. Soon after that meeting, a communication was received from four of the chiefs on the Allegheny reservation, from which the following is an extract, viz. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.