Chief Seattle did exist, was a great orator and did give a speech in 1854, on the occasion of the arrival of the Federal Government's Indian superintendent in the Northwest.
I have never met anyone who heard that broadcast, but the Indian superintendent and I felt we had seen the job through to the end.
The new territorial Indian superintendent, O.H. Irish, believed the Goshute annuity should be increased to $5,000.
In 1854, he made his speech on the differences between the Indian way of life and white way of life to more than a thousand of his people gathered to greet the Government's Indian superintendent, Isaac Stevens.
He was the first American Indian superintendent of the Haskell Institute, serving from 1933 to 1935.
In 1790, Elliott became assistant to McKee, who was Indian superintendent at Detroit while Elliott continued to encourage the Shawnee and other native groups to oppose American advance across the Ohio River.
He used his position and travels as Indian superintendent to serve as agent conducting negotiations between Sevier and the governor of Spanish Louisiana.
As first governor and Indian superintendent of Utah Territory, Young achieved a position of religious and political power unequaled in U.S. history.
Cameron, the British deputy Indian superintendent and blood brother to Dragging Canoe, accompanied him to Chickamauga.
He was later named Indian superintendent.