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Show An attempt has been made to induce the ~r ickbrees,M andans, and Gros Ventres, who occupy the reserv;btion at Fort Berthold, to remove to the Iu(1ia11 Territory, but they l~nce declined to send a delegation to prospect for the tribe, and seem arerse to removal from their present grounds, where they are exposed to raids from the Sioux, and their crops are alternately cut off by t11e grasshopper and the drought. Their crops gruerallg this.year are reported as a failure, aud it is not unlikely that, without help throngh a deficiency appropriation, they will &utter severely during the wioter. The India~ls on these agencies deserve mola ti.0~1th e G o v e r ~ ~ r t~ha~t1e ~an~yt o ther tribes in Dakota, on acoonut.of their fidelity to the Gorenlment and tho faithfi~l'service rendered by them as scouts in compelliag other Indians to keep the peace. MINNESOTA CHIPPEWAS. The wandering bands of Chippewas in Ivlinnesota require the atten-tionaof the Government. There ale two permaxent reservations in the State, at Leech Lake and White Eilrt.11, and the diflerent hands remain-ing among the xettlements of Peml~inaa ud Otter-Tail should be gath-ered lipnu the White Earth reserration. For these barids the Govern-ment has acquired, by purchase from the Mississippi Chippewas, the right to settle upon this rerrrv;~tion; hut in order to establish the111t here a special apl~ropriationw ill be reqni~.ed. The appropriation of $10,000, made by last Congress for the re11111voaf1 the Pembinas, being too lim-ited for the pnrpose, has not bee11 usrtl. The Mille Lac band of Uhip11~w;lsia Minnesota remains in it,s anom-alous positiou. They have s.oltl thbir reservation, retaining a right to occupy it (lurit~g good behavior. With thistitle to the soil it is not deemed expalient to attempt pertnanent improvemerlts ,at Mille Lac, unless a title to the reservatiou cii~h e returned to them on cot~dition that they surrender to Cove rnt~t r~al~l t mone) s acquired in considera-tiou of their cession of the Mille Lac reservation. If t l~i sc a o ~ ~ obet done, their 111cliauss hould be ~ ~ o t i tkhdat they belong at White Earth, and be req~til.ecl to remove. I u their present location, on its present tenure, nothing can be doue,looki~~togm ard their civilization. UTES. In eon.*iilt:r;~liono f the condition of the sc;ttterv,l bands of 11iRerent tribe* of Ut1:s i t 1 Sevadil. COI I I ~Bi1~1O1d. I Jti~ll.i t \vaa 11vctnr~;li d!-isnblc' to se~ld;I ( ~ I I I I I I ~ S tSo~ i~nI ~I ~ u:iISt .to~ tbvir ~ I I I I I ~ C ~i1T1A1d tile t~ossil~ility of gathering t l~emu pon on&o r tlzore reservatio~~ws,h ere the9 would 1;8 mure irnrnediately under the care-of the eoverntnent, aud retr~ovrdfr om the white settlers. Agent G. W. 111galls and Major J. W. Pqwell were appointed OII this comn~ission. They seenl to have adopted t l~ne xhaust-ive method, and the iuterestir~gre port of their labors for the summer is here\rith submitted, aad a t t e r ~ t i oin~v~it ed to their recommeu~lations, which are heartily iudorsed bythia ofice. October 14, 1864, a treaty was conclu~led with the Elamath and Modoc t r i h s aud Yahooskill band of Snalre Indians in Oregon, by the first artiule of which said Indiaus.ce(led to the United States all their |