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Show REPORT OF THE COMMISSIONER OF INDIAN ABsFAIRB. 39 those members of the tribe who desired to maintain their tribal organ-ization, instead of becoming citizens, as provided in the treaty of 1855. They are poor, and, having no annuities and but little force of charac-ter, are making slight progress in industry or cirilization. They have been lately joined by members of the tribe who, under the treats, ac-cepted citizenship. These, desiring to resume their relations with their people, have been again adopted into the tribe. Inasmuch as the new-comers are decidedly superior in point of industrial attainments, educa-tion, and energy of character, it is hoped that the condition of the tribe may be improved by their accession. Pottatoato~~ies.-These Indians, who formerly resided in Michigan and Indiana, whence they removed to Kansas, before going down into the Indian Territory, number about 1,000. They hare, under the pro-visions of the treaty of 1561, niade with the tr~be, the11 residing in Kansas, become citizens of the United States. By the terms of said treaty they received allotments of land and their proportiou of the tribal funds. with the exceution of their share of certaln nou-navine Ft:irr stoek;,au~o~~~lrtiou $g1 ii,000, hel~iln trust by the ~eerernr; 11;; Illre~~iolorp the 1't)trilwntoluirs. t lavi~~dli:s posed ot' tl~eirl :xtlds, tlrey removed to the Indian Territory, wbsre i reservation thirty 'milis square, adjoining the Seminole reservation on the west, had been, by the treaty of 1867, provided for such as should elect to maintain their tribal organization. It having been clecided, however, by the Depart-ment, that, as they had all become citizens, there was, consequentlg, no part of the tribe remaining whict~c ould lay claim, under treaty stipu-lations, to the reservation in the Indian Territor.~, legislation was had by Congress at its last session-act approved May 23, 1872-by which these citizen Pottawatomies were allowed allotments of land withiu the tract originally assigned for their use as a tribe, to tbe es-tent of 160 acres to each head of family and to each other person twentyone years of age, and of 80 acres to each minor. Most it' not all of them are capable of taking care of themselves, and many of them are well educated, intelligent, and thrift,y farmers. Absentee Sl~.wnees.-These Indians, numbering 663, separated about thirty year8 ago from the main tribe, then located in Kansas, and set-tled in the Indian Territory,'prinoipally within the limits of the thirty-miles square tract heretofore referred to in the remarks relative to the Pottawatomies, where they engaged in farming, and have since sup- . norted themselves without assistance from the Government. With the vlew of secunng to them permanent homes? provision was made in the act of May 23,1872, whereby any Indian of pure or mised blood of the Absentee Shawl~eGb, eing -the head of a family, or over twenty-one years of age, who could show to the satisfaction of the Secretary of the Interior that he or she had resided eontinuously for the term of three years within said thirtymile square tract, and had mads substantial i~uprovernentst hereon, should receive an allotment of eight.>-: tares of land, to iuelude, so far as practicable, his or her iluprovements, together with an addition of twenty acres for each child under twenty-onesears, belonging to the family of such Indian. Although the act of 41'1 23, 1872, provides for individual allotments of lands indiscrimitlately to Pottawatomies and Absentee Shawnees within the thirty-mile square tract, yet it is intended, in makiug such allotments, that they shall be, so fiir as practicable, for the former, out of lands lying soutll of Little Itirfer, and, for the latter, out. of lands lying north of it. Sina being assured of the permanency of their homes, they have eutiretl with renewed energy upon the work of farming, and succeeded during the |