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Show I 6. REPORT OF THE outside and beyond the limits of 0111 settlements, and the Indians can be per-mitted to leave them in pursuit of the game which abounds throughout most of the unsettled regions of the country, the evil to which I allude is not so ap-parent. But when the tide of emigration, which, in this country, is advancing with such wonderful rapidity, sets in upon the country in which the reservations are located, and the line of our settlemenfs is so far advanced as to include them, the result is found to be most disastrous to the Indians. The game is gradually driven from the country, the simple arts of the Indian become in-sufficient to supply his wants, the worst classes of our own people collect around his reservation, and by means of gambling, the whiskey traffic, and every species of vice and immorality, to all of which the Indian seems to be unusually prone, they not only plunder and filch from him the supplies fur-nished him by the government, but they also cause him to lead a life of idleness, beggary, and vice, and he becomes a vagrant of the worst species, and a most intolerable miisance to the settlements in the midst of which his reservation is situated. I t is apparent that the estabfishiug of numerous small reservationsin every part of a territory, and locating upon each a tribe or band of Indians, only serves to increase their exposure to thr. evils to which I have alluded. I believe that the most efficient remedy for these evils will he found in conceutra-ting the varions tribes within suitable territories set apart for their exclusive use, and the enactment of such laws as will effectually prevent all whites set-tling among them, excepting only such soldiers and officers as may be actually required in order to preserve pcace among the Indians, enforce the necessary police regulations, instruct the young, and render the necessary aid to the adults while acquiring a knowledge of the arts of civilized life. I am aware thit it will require time, patience, and persevering effort to thus concentrate all the In-dians within our borders, and to perfect the details of a system for their man-agement, education, and control; but am fully persuaded that in the end it will be found much more economical than our present system, &l be more simple in its operations, a d in its results will be of inestimable value to the Indians. I have frequently urged the propriety of the system of allotting land to Indians, to be held by them in severalty, in the strongest terms of commenda-tion, ani in this regard my experience and observation have not in the least changed my opinion. Indeed it seems to me perfectly manifest that a policy designed to civilize and reclaim the Indians within our borders, and induce them to adopt the customs of civilization, must of necessity embrace, as 6ne of its most prominent features, the ideas of self-reliance and indiyidual effort, and, as an encouragement of those ideas, the acquisition and ownership of property in severalty. I t is equally apparent from the antecedents and the present sur-roundings of the Indians that their first efforts for the attainment of civilization should be directed towards the acquisition of a knowledge and practice of the simple arts of husbandry and pastoral life. From these two propositions it is easy to arrive at the conclusion that the theory of allotments of land to be held hy the Indians in severalty is correct. The error into which I think we have fallen, in the practice of this theory, has been in making a general aliotmeat to all the individuals of a band or tribe who could be induced to make a selection |