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Show REPORT OF THE COMXISSIONER OF INDIAN AFFAIRS. 59 I Superintendent Bendell, and of the agents in charge of the reservations set apart for the Apaches. NEVADA. The tribes residing in Xevada are Pah-Utes, Pi-Utes, Washoes, Sho- i shones. aud Bannocks. and are native to the distrihs iuhabited bv them I respectively. Pa7~U- tes.-These Indians. numbering about 6,.0 00.. inhabit the western p;~r.ot f ttie state. TWU restr.vatiol~sh hvc bee11 her nl~i~frotr t11e111o, ne I;uo\, n a3 tbr \\-il1kt.r River, the other au the l').ral~~i(Lla ke rt.-;,.rv;t rim. c o~~t u i l~r:livllt~ 3zW .111Nn1.re3. T h t ~lel~ tli:t~~s~aurei1 .t311frdi t~udl~. to the whites,-are verrpoor, and live chiefly upon fish, game, seeds, and n~)t.sw, ith soeh assistance as the Government from tlme to time . renders them. Thev shorn considerable disposition to labor: and those market fbr'the catch, over Gd above what the 1ndians require for their own consumption. No schools have been established for these Indians. They have no tre:tty n.l;~iit,oa\ vitl~t l~eC ;ovrl.ulnrl!t, :~udrr et:ivc. IIO ;~r~~~l l ibrliltv Hsn, ? ;tssisrt.tl ss 1oac11u s po.;sible frort~t ile sulnll nnlulurt of $15,U11O ~ I I I I I I I ~ I ~ ~ Y ;u,~~ro~~ri;fiitxv ttlh e .?irr\>icei l l Sr\.n~l:~T. his SI I I I I 11:13~ t r o ~ eitnla ilt+- qbate?o properly provide for the Iudiaus in this State. - Pi-Utes.-The Pi-Utes, numbering probably 2,500, inhabit the sonth-eastern part of the State. They have no reservation se,t a.part for them, nor have they ;tug treaty with the United States. They roam about at will, are very destitute, and obtai!~ a living principally by pilfering from the whites, althoogh a few of them are eqgaged in a small way in farming. But very little can be done for these Intlians by the Govern-ment in their present unsettled condition. They sl~ould be brotight upon one of the refiervatious set apart for the Indians in Xerada, or uuon the Uiutah reservation in Utah. where thev eo~ildre ceive suitable c.tre awl pl'ulg6.r i~~ntrut:tioinn tllr nrts ol'rivilizttd liie. l ~ ' ~ ~ , ~ l ~ ~ ~ln~,Ii.:str.~-s,IT I lU~U~ I~~, ~~ah~~o~l utI 5I 0~11 , :ire a poor, ~~lisernllle, i111d tlehaurlletl people, i l u t l spel~dI I I O J ~o f tl~eirti me anlung tile n.l~ite scttlvlncur.;, n.Lt.h! 111t.gg ain t40111e .;11l111lirn of hod xu11 r l o t l ~ i ~b~y g u~rr~insle r.\.ice.r. Tiley J~ilsisn o i.esc~~vi~~: I IiI~I ~) nI I t~rtv iry, nre 110t III charge of any agent of the Government, and vice and diseise are rap-idly carrying them away. Slhoshoa8s.-The Shoshones are a portion of the Northwestern, West-er!~, ?ud Gosbip bands referred to under the head of Utah." Those roammg or refiidiilg in the eastern part of Nevada number about 2,000. The remarks ulade respecting their brethren in Utah will eqtlally apply to them. Bamooks.-The Bannocks roaming in the northeastern part of the State number, probablr, 1,500, and are doubtless a portion of the people of that name ranging in Easter11 Oregon and Southern Idaho. They have no treatr with the Gorernment nor anv reserration set mart for the~un,l aal t~rduotil l c11:trgt. t ~ af n y L'uircd ~ ~ t n 1 ta.gs e ut. TlleS'shoulrl, if pi~s-iil~11l1~: l~o,c ated up011 the I:ort Hall rcserv;rtio~i~l l Ida110, hero soiie stepscould be takein to advance them in civilization. TEE PACIFIC SLOPE. The Indians on the Pacific Slope are divided as follows: In Wash-iugton Territory, about 14,000 j in Oregon, 12,000 j in California, 22,000. |
