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Show snits. @heya re a190 snpplied with sufficiet~st ubsistence, a t the expense of the Government, to prevent actual suffering, though not upon the '<feeding-list," like their neighbors, the Sionx. Ariokarees, Gros Pentres, and i).Iandans.-These tribes number 3,200, and have a reservation set apart for their occupancy by Executire order of April 12, 1870, comprising 8,640,000 acres, situated in the north-western part of Dakota a.ud the eastern part of Montana, extending to the Yellowstoue and Powder Rivers. They have no treaty with the Government, are now and have always been friendly to the whites, are exceptionally known to the officers of the Army and to frontiersmen as good Indians," and are engaged to some extent in agriculture. Owing to the shortness of the agricultural season, the rigor of the climate, and the periodical ravages of grasshoppers, their efforts in this direction, though made with a degree of patieuce and perseverance not usual in the Indian character, have met with frequent and dist,ressing reverses, and it has from time to time been found necessary to furnish them with more or less subsistence to prevent starvation. They are traditional enemie.~of the Sioux, and the petty warfare maintained between them and the Sioux of the Craud River and Chegenne River agencies, while, like most warfare confined to Indians alone, it causes wonderfully little loss of life, serves to disturb the condition of these agencies, and to retard the progress of all the parties concerned. These Indians should be moved to the Indian Territory, south of Kansas, where the mildness of the climate and the fertility of the soil would repay them their labors, and where, it is thought, from their willingness, to labor and their doc~l~utynd er the control of the Government, they would in a few years become wholly self-supporting. The question of their removal has been submitted to them, and they seem inclined to favor the project, but have expressed a desire to send a delegation of their chiefs to the Indian Tel~itOry, with a view of satisfying t,hemselves as to the desirableness of the location. Their wishes in this respect should be granted early next season, that their removal and settlement may be 'effected during the coming year. Notwithstanding their rrillingness to labor, tiney have shown but little interest in education; there is at pres-ent no school for them, unless one has been opened siooe September last by the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions. Congress makes an appropriation of $75,000 annually for goods and provisions, for the.ir instruction in agricultural and mechanical ptxrsuits, for salaries of employbs, and for the education of their children, &c. The Indian tribes residing within the limits of Montana are the Black-feet, Bloods, and Piegans, the Qros Ventres of the Prairie, the Assiua-boines, the Yanktonais, Santee and Teton (so called) Sioux; a portion of the northern Arapahoes and Cheyennes, the River Crows, the Xoun. tain Crows, the Flatheads, Pend dlOreilles and Kootenap, and a few Shoshones, Bannocks and Sheep-Eaters, numberlog in the aggregate about 32,412. They are dl, or nearly all, natire to the regions now occupied by them respectivel~. The following table will exhibit the population of each of these tribes, as nearlr as the same can be ascertained : Blackfeet, Bloods, aud Piegans.. .;.. ....................................... 7,500 Assinsboioss .............................................................. 4,790 Gros Ventres .............................................................. 1,100 Santee, Yanktonois, Unopape, and Cut-Head Sioux, at Milk River agenoy .... 2,623 |