124.) In 1929, the Six Nations Confederacy filed US Congressional complaints, charging the BIA with "propaganda, pernicious propaganda, and criminal propaganda" against the Confederacy. The exact same situation is occuring now, in 2026. Also in this articleis a 1929 quote of the Seneca Nation of Indians BIA government form since 1849 "under the eye of the Indian Bureau, a most corrupt government has reigned ever since among the Seneca Nation. (13 min. read)

The purpose of the Bureau of Indian Affairs is to destroy the Six Nations Confederacy. If you are working with the BIA, you are helping to destroy the Confederacy. It's that simple.

It seems that many young people in the Confederacy do not know about are past dealings with the poisonous BIA.  Because there are not too many older people around who went through this. That is what the Bureau of Indian Affairs is counting on. The BIA's sole purpose is to destroy the Confederacy. They are hoping we don't remember.

 Right now, there is a growing number of Haudenosaunee people that believe that working with the Bureau of Indian Affairs is the way to follow. Ruin and fraud are sure to happen on this path. What is explained in this 1929 document, is exactly what is happening today in 2026, with the Haudenosaunee. We must learn from our past or we are going to be destroyed by it.

Here are excerpts from The 1929 congressional hearing is called:

SURVEY OF CONDITIONS OF THE INDIANS IN THE UNITED STATES.

The full title of this government document will be given at the end of this article. This government document has been cited in previous articles.

Page 4860, Laura Kellogg, speaking on official behalf of the Six Nations Confederacy: 

"Now, we want to call the attention of this committee to the fact that the Commissioner of Indian Affairs has no just and proper relation with the Six Nations Indians. Under their treaty of 1784 there was never a hint of their being brought under any kind of control under a bureau. They had the right of self-determination that the bureau would necessarily cut off. They have never subsequently made any different arrangements with the United States Government themselves. So that the original agreement of 1784 stands as it was made, to-day."

"We, of course, are very solicitous of this committee that some sort of protection be given us at this particular moment, because we are not helped (by) all of these influences which have started since six years ago to oust us out of our rights will continue, depriving us of our right of self-determination with the connivance of the Bureau of Indian Affairs. The very moment that the Six Nations introduced a program of self -reconstruction there, an enormous propaganda was brought on, with paid agents, we do not know of whom, whether by the states or whether these individual politicians who are interested in the lands we wish to recover, or whether it is with the direct understanding between them and the bureau. We do know this, that every influence which can approach the Six Nations, and that has done so, has gone to the bureau and gotten the sanction of the bureau for assistance on their side. We do know that the bureau reaches out clear to Canada in its sinister suggestions as to what shall be done to those of us who are trying to exercise our autonomy."

Page 4861: "We decided we were sick of the conditions of Indian life, we were sick of poverty on every land; we were sick of ignorance and of our inability; we were sick of the influence that opposed us at every turn. There is not a man with any degree of initiative in him that has any kind of credit among all Indian people, including the Six Nations, who does not feel this. We are sick, all the Indians of United States, of are being forced into that status practically by the actions of the bureau, of everlastingly being submerged like penitentiary wards of the United States Government. We are sick of being plagued with the white man's filthy diseases; we are sick of being held down until we are plucked of everything that we possessed; we called our original people together, the chiefs of the great confederacy, and we said 'We will take inventory. Let us see what we are able to do. Here is our legal status. From here on in it is our fault if we do not take some legal progress, when we have everything that any group of Indians need in the United States to go on with a program of self-help."

"We made a survey of our population on the reservations, of the assets, of our man power, of the particular kinds of minerals, and what properties there were, and we ended up by recognizing one other thing which is prevalent among all Indians of any part of the United States, and that is the development of sycophants among us, so that it makes us hopelessly unable to ever do anything with ourselves without a few of these English-speaking pinchback men among us everlastingly in the pockets of the white man, who have the bureau standing right behind them in every instance. There is not a group of Indians in the United States which is not always having help given to, that is not trying to do away with the Indians. They are the fellows who always get the help from the bureau. They are the fellows that are everlastingly filling their pockets from outside for destroying the rest of us. They put on fine clothes because they have fine job; and, when tourists come along, what happens is that the bureau points to them as 'progressive Indians'."

"Now, there is a system of espionage growing up in this country that is alarming in its extent. In the most subtle way the Commissioner of Indian Affiars suggested to the Commissioner of Indian affairs on the Canadian side, in this instance to see that we were put into trouble, and I told you what it all ended up in."

Page 4862: "We charge the Indian Bureau with propaganda, pernicious propaganda, criminal propaganda. They acknowledged it themselves on the witness stand in Montreal they sent one of their anaemic, slimy fingered, hothouse fellows over there, and when he got on the witness stand he was compelled to tell that the Bureau of Indian Affairs had instituted propaganda against the Six Nations...." 

"We suspect that this Indian Bureau's propaganda over the United States to deceive the public as to the wonderful things it does for the Indians has some fund behind it somewhere that we do not know about, and we want to know if our protector, the United States Government, is spending money to have somebody vilify us before the public, and to incriminate us in court and exterminate us in this country."

"There is some fact connected with the fact of the Six Nations having brought for a reconstruction program for themselves wherein they made up their minds to do this."

"They have, right now, this idea of locating this model village community at the Ononadaga reservation in Syracuse, which is a most beautiful spot for such a thing. This is also the capital of the Six Nations."

"We went about, first of all, to clean house. We had corrupt chiefs in our council that had been in there, instituted by outside influences, (continued page 4863) And with the help of the white agents who are always after something we have got, whether it be the elimination of somebody who might be a possible leader, whether it be properties, in one form or another, whether it be influence of some kind, whether it be the character of the people_____"

Page 4863: "Before I leave, I want to charge here that we believe there is a coalition between the bureau and those political interests in the State of New York against the Six Nations."

Page 4864: "The effect upon the social life, upon everyday life, of these Indians in these reservations is something that we cannot endure and we will not endure. Right now, after we have exercise the first right of self-determination, white agents are busy at night handing out money to our eliminated chiefs, the chiefs that we have thrown out of our council because of this corruption."

The next excerpts are from a petition filed as an "exhibit" to the subcommittee of this same committee on Indian Affairs,  United States Senate by Mr. Kellogg. Who was also officially representing the Six Nations Confederacy.

Page 4873: "We charged that the conspiracy between the Indian Bureau of Washington and the Indian Bureau at Ottawa has brought about the enactment by the Canadian Parliament of a law to arrest any Indian who contributes money to prosecute any claim without the consent of the Commissioner of Indian Affairs in Canada;"

"Your petitioners desire to remind the United States of America that the Six Nations are not under the Bureau of Indian Affiars and that the Indian Bureau's acts of wanton contempt, interference, and persecution against the independence and integrity of the official personnel of the confederacy is ground for war between nations, were not the protectorate reduced to a state of pauperism and helplessness by acts of fraud and harassment allowed through the years by the guardian Government. Believing intensely in the justice of our cause, we petition your honorable Commission to investigate how many means, how many people, and how much money has been used in the Indian Bureau's propaganda against the Six Nations, more particularly between the dates of February 15, 1922, and October 18, 1927."

"The Seneca Nation in 1849 changed its form of government with a separate understanding between it and the United States Government, and that in the absence of machinery provided by the federal government and their relations with the Six Nations the Senecas have been coming to the Interior Department. By this change the Seneca Nation left the Indian form of government, adapting, to a certain extent, the white form. Under this form and under the eye of the Indian Bureau, a most corrupt government has reigned ever since among the Seneca Nation. Elected counselors, in the place of chiefs, largely mixed bloods, have carried on a system of looting quite equal to their white example. No report as to the oil, gas, and land lease revenues are made to the Seneca Nation. No increase in the per capita distribution of royalties to the Seneca people has been made for years despite the increase in the revenues. The Seneca declaration of the change in 1849 was not acknowledged before a notary until 1923, long after the original signers were dead."

And from the same petition, page 4870-4871: "As the President of the new United States, the father of his country kept the faith of his Iroquois allies and personally directed the Fort Stanwix treaty of 1784.

It was made with the most vigilant observance of all the formalities due an international document. It was the result of conferences between duly authorized representatives of both nations.

It remains to-day the most dignified treaty in the whole history of this country's Indian relations.

It was made with a civilized power already recognized as such by France, Holland, and England, and a government which was a better established political unit than the white government for many years.

For a hundred and forty-four years your petitioners have lived and seen the embarrassments of the United States Government towards the Six Nations, promoted by the State of New York. When the confederacy first protested the President of the United States answered them in these words:

'Be assured that the United States of America will never see you defrauded, but will protect you in all your just rights'. 

And the protests of President Washington to Governor Clinton of New York is a matter of history."

"Beginning with 1786, contrary to the constitutional provisions prohibiting the states to enter into treaty relations with Indian nations, the State of New York began a series of treaties with separate nations of the confederacy for cessions of their coveted territory. Ruin and fraud where the order of these transactions.

Parties interested in the cessions of land were made members of the personnel of the New York treaty commissions.

Parties representing the Six Nations had no power constitutionally on the Indian side to sell, without the consent of the people of each nation, and without the consent and ratification of the general council of the Six Nations Confederacy. The loss of Six Nations citizenship to the Delaware Indians is an example of the punishment due any Six Nations people who violated this provision of the Iroquois constitution.

Finally, by the treaty of 1784, the Six Nations had no power to sell land without the consent of the guardian, the United States Government. Under the articles of confederation, 'Treaties shall constitute the supreme law of the land."

End of excerpts from this official US government document.

Here are some definitions for this article.

Solicitous- someone showing deep caring,Concern, eager desire for another person's well-being.

Connivance- Secret consent to allow an illegal act to occur, pretend ignorance.

Sycophants- A person who will do anything, harm anyone to win favor from wealthy, influential, powerful people. Also known as a "boot licker", a "brown noser".

Title of this US government document is:

Survey of Conditions of the Indians in the United States.

Hearings before a subcommittee of the committee on an Indian Affairs United States Senate

71st Congress second session pursuant to

S.Res. 79,308,263

New York Indians Part 12

March 1, November 20 5–26, 1929 January 3, 1930

If the people of the Confederacy do not heed this warning from the past, catastrophe will occur to all.