Ely Parker: Report on Indian Affairs to the War Department

Glossary

• agents … from civil life civilian representatives
• annuities annual payments
• dispensed removed from office
• humanity the desire to provide humane treatment
• in the common acceptation of the term as the term is generally understood
• jobbers middlemen between manufacturers and retailers
• magisterial agents judicial representatives
• pastoral pursuits raising cattle or other pastured animals
• sophistry argument for the sake of winning an argument rather than actually being right
• specious appearing to be true but in fact false
• they have been reduced to limits too narrow for the hunter state they no longer possess the natural resources necessary to survive as hunter-gatherers
• tithe a tenth; usually referring to a tenth part of one’s income, given over to a church or charitable organization either voluntarily or in the form of a tax
• War Department the pre-1947 name for what is now the U.S. Department of Defense