History Documentation:
LETTER ON LAND FOR CHURCH (Protestant) 1885, Mach, 18
United States Indian Service
La Pointe Agency
Ashland, Wisconsin
March 18, 1885
Honorable H. Price
Commissioner of Indian Affairs
Washington, D.C.
Sir,
I have the honor to enclose a petition of the member of the Lac Courte Oreilles Band of Indians of the Agency, for the setting apart of a certain tract of land therein described which shall be reserved for school and church purposes. The land is located near Pahquahwong on the Lac Courte Oreilles Reservation. I would respectfully recommend that the petition be granted.
Very respectfully
W. R. Durfee
U.S. Indian Agent
To The Honorable, Secretary of the Interior:
We, the undersigned Chiefs and Headmen of Pah quah
oh wong, of the above Reservation, hereby respectfully request that the
Honorable Secretary of the Interior, permit that the following described
parcel of land be set aside for school and church purposes – viz:
The E/2, of the NE/4, of the NE/4 of Section 31, Township
40, Range 6.
Chief and Headmen
O-gah-pay-pe-nase his X mark
O-gah-pay-ge-zhick his X mark
Ke-ne-we-ge-zhick his X mark
Baptiste his X mark
Pe-me-say-ge-zhick his X mark
Se-ge-ne-gay his X mark
Much-e-ke-wish his X mark
Wah-bish-ke-gwen-abe his X mark
Ke-no-shin his X mark
Ka-ge-gay-be his X mark
Qud-qua-dosh his X mark
Charles Headflyer his X mark
Charles Sholtz his X mark
Witness
William Wetenhall