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Show REPORT OF THE COMMISSIONER OF INDIAN AFFAIRS. XXIII vided with a school, the teacher to have such care for the general inter-ests of the tribe as has hitherto been exercised by an agent. The Indians on the EIoopaValley reserve, California, hare been noti. fied that they must go to Round Valley. Some difficulty will doubtless he experienced in overcoming their extreme reluctance to such removal, and the proposed change must be made the subject of further investiga-tion by the office before a definite plan and time for removal can be determined upon. The Alsea agency, in Oregon, has been abolished, but inadequate appropriations have placed the office in an embarrsssing position and worked hardship and injustice to the Indians. They are required to leave their homes and cultivated fields and remove to Siletz, but no means are furnished to defray expense of such removal or to assist in their establishment in their new home. Fort Belknan arencr. in Montana. which has never been more than a feedingpost i& t i k ~ f oVse utrrs H I I ~A s~lirlaboinesw, ho were eonsid-rred roo rernoto to be convc~~it.ntlfye d at other xgenries, has been abol-islled, and the Ir1dia118h elongill$ thereto have 11re11o rdered to report fur rations and :ir~nniriesa t Fort Peck ngencj. T l ~arg cnc at l+rr l'eck reports that the Assinnboi~~cgsiv e ready eonwnt to t h e~lii lng~a ud that serernl lodces t1ar.c nlreadr cono to Wolf I'oiur. 11111t l~art he G1.o~V en- ( tres refuse~o.come in such ;lose relations with their old enemies, the Yanctonnais, and desire to remove to somc other point on the Missouri more remote'from the Sioux. The agency established in B'orth Carolina in February, 1875, among the Eastern Cherokees, was abolished in August last. The educational interests of the tribe %re now under the charge of the snperintendent of public iustructiou of North Oarolins. The jurisdiction of the agent for the Pueblos has been extended over the Cimarron agency iu New Mexico. It is hoped that this temporary arrangement n-ill soon be followed by the removal of the Utes and Apaches, who now report at Oimarron, to some reservation where they may find a snitable and permanent home. The reservation set apart on the Sau Juan River by Executive order, in March, 1874,for the Jicarilla Apaches, has recently been restored to the public domain, in the belief that the ma.jo rit.y of those Agdches could never be induced to settle tllcrco~~. In Id';&C or~gresr;;~ l~pl.opriate8(3I0 0,000 tbr 1411 erperin~euto f enforced ci!~ilizatiouU I I I ~ I tIh~o ttvonr three thousand of the Kiow;~s,Co~a;~neheci, and Cheyennes who had surrendered and were held caotive bv the mili: tary. gegotiations mere entered into with the QuaGws foi the pur-chase of a tract of 40,000 acres lying in the northeast corner of the In-dian Territory, and remote from the old hunting-ground; an agency was established, a good store house built, aud a few hundred acres of land mere broken and fenced. Ttla captives were, however, transferred directly to their respective agents by t,he military, and it was deemed by the office unadvisable, if not impracticable, to undertake to collect them again and to force them to submit to removal not only from their homes but also from their friends and relatives. The L'captive" agency was therefore abolished in April last, and about $200,000 of the fund will be returned to the Treasury. It is hoped tbat other Indians, perhaps the Poncas, will soon be induced to settle on this tract, who will recelve substantial benefit from the im-provements already made thereon. In that case, it will be necessary to procure legislation which shall authorize the purchase from the Qua-paws of the lands which they have already signified their willingness to relinquish. |
