A LETTER TO DR. LYMAN ABBOT OF THE “CHRISTIAN UNION.” BY ELIZABETH P. PEABODY. CAMBRIDGE: JOHN WILSON AND SON. University Press. 1886. SARAH WINNEMUCCA’S PRACTICAL SOLUTION OF THE INDIAN PROBLEM. To Dr. Lyman Abbot , Editor of the Christian Union :— Because you so cordially announced Sarah Winnemucca’s “ New Departure ,” a year or more ago, as the Christian Union’s solution of the Indian problem, I send you this Report that I am now desirous to make to the public, unofficial and official , of he

Here ends the article I prepared for the “Christian Union,” but which, proving too long for a newspaper, you have advised me to print in a pamphlet; and I conclude to make it an appeal to the UNOFFICIAL people of the United States, instead of to the Government, as I first thought of doing. For, notwithstanding the good intentions of the new administration, I see it is effectually hindered ( how , it does not itself realize) from doing justice to the Indian, as its first act with respect to the C