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Show REPORT OF C03lhlISSIONER OF IBDIBN AFFAIRS. 49 - nu8 ;md Bannocks on that reserktion; and another chiof namec1Tav-i--won-she-a, with a small hand hadgooe to the Shoshone reservatidu on Find River, and theyhad determined to cast their lot with Wash-i-ki and his man. Each of these chiefs sent nwrd that they had taken this wnrae, governed by representatioos made by the com-rnissionin the spring, +d they desired that it should so represent the matter to the agents on thase resemat~oosth at these people might meet vi th proper consideration, Two other bands, one nnder Ssn-pits,%he other under Sai-gvits, had refused to go to Fort Hall, and were encamped near Corinne, and had sent s delegation to request the comnlission to meet them at that point. The lateuegs of the season, and the limited amount of funds at the wmmand of the commission, caused it to decide that it was irnpr8otieable to send the goods to Fort Hall and to collect tho Indians them far the di~istribution,a nd the two last mentioned tribes were met near Corinne. Leaving Speoial Commissioner Powellat that place to oomplete the distribntion ind to talk wlth the Indians, Special Commissioqer Iogalls proewled to Elko to meet the remainder af the Shoshones, who had, in the mean time, been collectad at that point by aasiatants of the oornmissiou. A delegation of the Western Shoshones, representing the trihea that assambled at Elko, another delegation of the Northwestern Phushones awenibled at Corinne, and a delegation of the Go-ai Utes were brought to Salt Lake City for th purpose of con-ferrin with another ~pecial commission composed of Hon. J. P. C. Shanks, Governor T. ennett nett, and H. W. Reed, ooucerning the resen.ation atFort Hall. The rcsult of this oonferenoe was vetv favorable. The oommissioners then retuned to IYash'il-~ n- ton, arriving hers ~eoembbr1 . This brief history of the operations of the oonlmissiou will be follo~erbl x a state-ment of the general ressults obtainad. I ORG.4SIZ.ATIOB, ENUMERATION, AND DISTRIBUl!ION OF THE TRIBES. 1 Sour corumission deemed it a matter bf nrime imnortanoo to make a aomolete snn- I .~~~ ~~ mvrnrion ottl,n tribes viaircd, and to obtni;, a thvr(;neh kiusl,:dgo uf their urganim- Liou and rorttlition. Or Ill" I..rea, Pah-vauts, Go-ri I'trs, and Snr t I~\v( .*teS~h~w hn-z, rJ thrv nrr ctb.tblrd ro maku rllnt 1ho.y Ih4icvc to be iau ntrcurarnsrarol~lroru f their The census of the Westorn Shoshones is helieved to be a fair appmximstion. Tho letter tribes are more or leas dieorganized, md in somo nlmes their tribal relations me entirely broken np, and they are azattered over slorge district of oonntrf, and it would have required at least an additional month, and a oorresponding expenditure, to hav? made the work as thorough with them ss withtho other tribes. The original politicsl organisation of the tribes nnder consideration had aterritorid basis ; that is, the country wsa divided into districts, and each district nras inhabited by s small txibe, which took the nmmeof the land, and had one principal mhief. These tribes, or "land-nameds," ns they are called in the Indian idiom, were the only perms: nent orranizations. hot nometimes two or more of them would unite in a oonfederse~v" nnder 6me great bhief. The followiog table exhibits the names of these tribes, the number of men, womed, and children, wverally and in total, and also the lsnd-name of the tribe, its looality, ohief, and, wherever a aoofederwy BX~St~hBe, prinoipl ohief of such organization: The numbers in the le&haud column refer to corresponding numbers on the acoom-panying map, the latter n~~mheirnsd icating the region of country severally claimcd l~g the tribes. 4 I A |