"CAPTAIN JOHN L. BULLIS, of the United States Army, who is now residing in Santa Fe, and filling the position of Indian agent for the Pueblo & Jicarilla Indians, is one of the most honored and esteemed citizens of New Mexico. He occupies a position which is indeed responsible – a position which demands calm and wise judgement as well as bravery and fearlessness. He has charge of some 9000 Indians belonging to the Pueblo tribe and living in some nineteen villages. The Jicarillas number less than 1000 and are located on a reservation. This agency is located in the northwest part of the Territory of New Mexico, where they have 400,000 acres of land and during the year 1894 the Government maintained five day schools and several contract schools, managed by the Catholics, also a boarding school at Bernalillo where seventy-five Indian girls are instructed. This school is also managed by the Catholics. The Pueblo Indians are generally self-supporting and receive but little aid from the government other than the maintenance of the schools before mentioned. The Jicarilla Indians are the wildest in the Territory and receive rations and other supplies weekly. A boarding school is soon to be established in the agency, in the hope that civilizing processes may have their influence upon this wild tribe. The Pueblos also own large tracts of land which were given them by the Spanish government, and which was patented to them by the United States Government as Pueblo lands to be held in common. The Indians who are under the charge of Captain Bullis are as a rule well satisfied and are making some progress toward civilization, particularly along the line of educating their children."
Saturday, September 27, 2014
MORE ON CAPTAIN BULLIS, #1
Bullis Room volunteers are continuing to go through papers that came our way from Texas sources, and this week we focused on a document that was written when John Lapham Bullis resided in the Santa Fe New Mexico Territory between 1893 and 1897. We'll share this with you in the next two or three posts, so that you can get a sense of this period in the life of Captain Bullis. Here is the first paragraph:
"CAPTAIN JOHN L. BULLIS, of the United States Army, who is now residing in Santa Fe, and filling the position of Indian agent for the Pueblo & Jicarilla Indians, is one of the most honored and esteemed citizens of New Mexico. He occupies a position which is indeed responsible – a position which demands calm and wise judgement as well as bravery and fearlessness. He has charge of some 9000 Indians belonging to the Pueblo tribe and living in some nineteen villages. The Jicarillas number less than 1000 and are located on a reservation. This agency is located in the northwest part of the Territory of New Mexico, where they have 400,000 acres of land and during the year 1894 the Government maintained five day schools and several contract schools, managed by the Catholics, also a boarding school at Bernalillo where seventy-five Indian girls are instructed. This school is also managed by the Catholics. The Pueblo Indians are generally self-supporting and receive but little aid from the government other than the maintenance of the schools before mentioned. The Jicarilla Indians are the wildest in the Territory and receive rations and other supplies weekly. A boarding school is soon to be established in the agency, in the hope that civilizing processes may have their influence upon this wild tribe. The Pueblos also own large tracts of land which were given them by the Spanish government, and which was patented to them by the United States Government as Pueblo lands to be held in common. The Indians who are under the charge of Captain Bullis are as a rule well satisfied and are making some progress toward civilization, particularly along the line of educating their children."
"CAPTAIN JOHN L. BULLIS, of the United States Army, who is now residing in Santa Fe, and filling the position of Indian agent for the Pueblo & Jicarilla Indians, is one of the most honored and esteemed citizens of New Mexico. He occupies a position which is indeed responsible – a position which demands calm and wise judgement as well as bravery and fearlessness. He has charge of some 9000 Indians belonging to the Pueblo tribe and living in some nineteen villages. The Jicarillas number less than 1000 and are located on a reservation. This agency is located in the northwest part of the Territory of New Mexico, where they have 400,000 acres of land and during the year 1894 the Government maintained five day schools and several contract schools, managed by the Catholics, also a boarding school at Bernalillo where seventy-five Indian girls are instructed. This school is also managed by the Catholics. The Pueblo Indians are generally self-supporting and receive but little aid from the government other than the maintenance of the schools before mentioned. The Jicarilla Indians are the wildest in the Territory and receive rations and other supplies weekly. A boarding school is soon to be established in the agency, in the hope that civilizing processes may have their influence upon this wild tribe. The Pueblos also own large tracts of land which were given them by the Spanish government, and which was patented to them by the United States Government as Pueblo lands to be held in common. The Indians who are under the charge of Captain Bullis are as a rule well satisfied and are making some progress toward civilization, particularly along the line of educating their children."
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