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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Yankton Indians, (search)
Yankton Indians, A tribe of the Siouan family. In 1899 there were 1,061 lower Yanktonai Sioux at the Crow Creek agency, in South Dakota; 1,239 Yanktonai Sioux at Fort Peck agency, in Montana; a considerable number of Yanktonai Sioux at the Standing Rock agency, in North Dakota; and 1,728 Yankton Sioux at the Yankton agency, in South Dakota. For further details of this tribe, see Sioux, or Dakota, Indians. Yankton Indians, A tribe of the Siouan family. In 1899 there were 1,061 lower Yanktonai Sioux at the Crow Creek agency, in South Dakota; 1,239 Yanktonai Sioux at Fort Peck agency, in Montana; a considerable number of Yanktonai Sioux at the Standing Rock agency, in North Dakota; and 1,728 Yankton Sioux at the Yankton agency, in South Dakota. For further details of this tribe, see Sioux, or Dakota, Indians.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Yazoo lands. (search)
Company for $66,964, 7,000,000 acres to the Virginia Yazoo Company for $93,742, and 3,500,000 acres to the Tennessee Yazoo Company for $16,876. This movement was in response to a prevailing spirit of land speculation stimulated by extensive migrations of people from the Atlantic seaboard to new lands in consequence of pecuniary embarrassments, a result of the Revolutionary War. In 1790 the national government, by treaty, gave much of the lands south and west of the Oconee River to the Creek Indians. This offended the Georgians, and the more violent among them proposed open resistance to the government and to settle on those lands in spite of the treaty. Sales of the lands were made to a Georgia Yazoo Company formed subsequent to the treaty. The sales in 1796 had amounted to $500,000, a sum totally inadequate for the amount of land purchased. There were evidences of great corruption on the part of the Georgia legislature, and in 1796 Congress revoked the sales as unconstitutional
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Young men's Christian associations, (search)
, the reorganized movement grew rapidly after the war on the following lines: The evangelical test of active membership, a definite and comprehensive plan of work, the ownership of well-adapted buildings, the employment of trained and paid officers, a committee of supervision for each State or province, with a central committee for general oversight, systematic effort directed to special classes of men (e. g., merchants' clerks, college students, railroad men, German speakers, colored men, Indians, lumbermen, sailors, soldiers, etc.), and great prominence given to the Bible and personal work. A typical Young Men's Association building contains a reception-room, reading-room, library, parlor, recreation-room, offices, class-rooms, lecture and entertainment room, gymnasium, including bowling-alley, bath and dressing rooms, rooms for boys, kitchen, and janitor's den. Religious and moral instruction, work in behalf of personal purity, temperance, etc., instruction in various branches of