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Show - REPORT OF THE COMMSSIONER OF INDIAN .AFFATE&. , ;6? ' : 1, ': . . . . ~ ~ .I . _ i 16ura.-There some 400 8 %an~d Fox Indians, bnt a8 they &re :- . ., .> . ..:~ ~ focated~nia~bdosu ght and paid for by themselves, they are not withm - ~ . . . the provisions ofthe Glotment law. . .. .~.. .~- . Xorth D@kota.-Allotments have been neariy completed on th6 . -. ~ :.: .Devil's Lake ~eseri-ation. I:. _ . -, .. . Surqeys of the1Fort Berthold Reservation, preliminary to allotments, - , . .. -i have been commenced. , . . - ~. r ~ No steps have been taken looki~g't o allotments on thestanding ' ' . . . ~ Rock Reservation. . : . ,. t ~~. . . Negotiatitibns' are pending for the removal of the Turtle ~ o u i t a i n. .+ Indians from their reservation; and anti1 their find disposition is de:. .^ ' +'. ! .. . terminednpon, no allotments will be made to them." . ' . #omh Dakota.-All the Sisseton aIid Wahpeton Indians located upon , the Lake Traverse Reservation have r&eived their allotments and the - I surplus lands'have been opened €o settlement. , . The Pankton Indians have all reoeived'tbeir a~otmeuts and nego- '. tiations are pending for the cession of their surplus lands. , . . ~ - , . Allotmentil have been made in the field to the Indians loeated upon . . ..t :< . the Orcrw Creek Raaervation, and the work of making allotmentsfs nov - - ..-: :. ~ %. .: in progress on the Lower Bml6 Reservation. .. .- . .A . Portions of the Pine Ridge and Rosebud reservations have W n s vr: ~:',. : ~:: veyed, and it is the intention to commence making allotments on those ~ . .: '' :+ ~. . . two reservations early next year. ' ' . . _ .. .:I;\ * No steps have beentakenlooking to rtllgtments on the ~heyehn.e~ i k e'r ' . ,: ~ :. ,. Reservation. : .~ .,~ , . G ~ Nebraska.-Allotments have been completed on the Omaha, Reser- ;. .;. ,. ~. vation, and they me in progress on the Iowa, and the Sac and Fox :. ., :., ' . . -..: reservations. (These last two reservations are also partly in Kansas.) . ~. . ~ Allotments have been made in the field to the Winnebago Indians, ' .~' / _ I% .~:.;. but owing to complications growing out of outstanding patents issued . . ~ nuder the act of February 21,1863 (12 Stats., 1358), they have not yet . ; > , -, been spproved~byth e ~epartment. . . The Niobrara or Santee Reservation hiss been allotted, and the snr- . . pl1i8 iandnds thrown open to' settlement. .Montana.-The .former Gros Ventre Reservation, which extended nearly across the northern portion of the State and embrapd over . 21,000,500 acres, ha8 hem reduced to three separate reservations, ' ' known as the Fort Pwk, Fort Belknap, and Blackfeet reserves, em-bracing about 4,009000 Wres. No action has been taken regarding allotments on these reservations, as I have no information thit the In- r . dians thereon desire allotments, or that the charkter of the land is. such as will enable them to subsist upon individual tracts, , InQuiry is now being made as to the advisability of allotting the lands of the Flathead Reservation. The work of making aliotments on the Crow ~eshrvatibnh. as be& progress-in g at intervals for the last seven or eight yww, bat han .we .- . . - . .. - . - .. . . . . . . . .=" ' |