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Show REPORT OF COMMISSIONER OF INDIAN AFFAIRS. XLIX 1'n the latter part of bparch last 1 had a conference at this office with a delegation of ten Winnebagoes who had come here for the purpose of diqcuasing the above and other matters of interest to them, from which it appeared that the tribe opposed the proposed sale and desired that aHotments be made to all those who had not~eceiveda ny. 'On March 22 last this office requested the chairmen of the respective Committees bn Indian Affairs of the Senate and House of Representatives to allow said delegation of Indians a hearing relative to the provisions of the hill. Since the date of the above-named communications to the chair-men of the committees referred to, no action seems to have been taken on the bill by Congress. The statement made in my last annual report that the Winnebagoes , had expressed a desire to sell a portion of their reservation was based on reports of their agents, who doubtless .represented the sentiment of the tribe on the matter, so far as it was then known. I am still of the opinion expressed in said report, that legislation substantially like that recently had for,the Omahas (act Angnst 7, 1882,) would ' be beneficial to the Winnebagoes, who would then have the benefit of and be subject to the laws, both civil and criminal, of the State of Nebraska, and wonld receive permanent individual titles to their land. It is to be hoped that their consent ma,y yet be,given to the sale of a portion of their reservatiou. NON-RESERVATION PI.UTES IN NEVADA AND OREGONi or id^ the year the agent of the Western Shoshone Agency (Duck Valley Reservation), Nevada, reported the arrival there of some Pi-Utes under the leadership of Paddy Cap, one of the several home-less roving bands of Pi-Utes 75110 have of late been the object of so much solicitude among the friends of the Iudians in the East. As they seemed anxious to remain there permanently, directions were at once sent to have them properly cared for. About 60 arrived at the agency, bnt when all together the band numbers about 300. Finding that they couu live in relations with the Shoshones, they asked to be'permanently settled upon lands adjoining the DuckVilley Reservation on the north, and in order to help them to make a start toward se1f.support the Shoshones generonsly and commendably vol-unteered to assist them in puttingin their first crop. With a view to providing a home for these roving non-reservation Pi-Utes, townships 15 south,ranges 1, 2, and 3 east of the Boise me- .ridian, in Idaho, were withdrawn from sale and settlement by Executive order dated May 4,1886, and set apart as an a.ddition to the Duck Valley Reservation, for the use and occuyation of Paddy Cap's band of Pi-Utes afid such other Indians as the Secretary of the Interior may see fitto settle thereon. The Pi-UteIndians have been roaming about for years, .homeless and helpless, and it is enconraging to find them at 7572 I A- IT |