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Show tween them aria the General Government that bbouud the!,, to obey any of its man-dates. With this defiance of authority on tho one hand, and the urgent appeal8 of bhe citizens on the other hand to be relievedof the burden of suhnisting~om any of them; I was oompalkd to insist on a complianoe with my request for them to leare the sek tlementa at the expiration of ten days. To this they anreed, but not until my orders to remavelthem at a11 hasards (which orders were grven to me by the honorable Assistant Secretary of the Interior, July 1) had been rend and explained to them. Nor did they fiuslly yield until the military were oalled ollt to enforce obadieuun. In this oonneotiou I mu forced to say that I do not charge the fault of all this so much to the Indians, ?a, first. to the want of a. definite contract between them and the Government, and 3 fa~thful fulfillment of the same on t,ha part of the Government. Secondly, to the unwise course of designing white men, who Qxasperate the Indians by their own barbawns trsattuent of them, or oreate distrust in their minds by f.~lao rrprasentationtioos. I an awry to say that these clisturbing in8u*noas are uot ooufined to the lower classes. To avoid these infloenew, 1 believe the Illdiaus should be required to remain at their agenciev uulena permitted to leave by the ageut ; and then to leave but for a limited time, and in small nnrobess. They shonld not be permitted to absent themselves during the producing season of the year. I am satisfied that but little can be aooompliahed toward their civilization sud christia?izatioo until such a policy is enfareed. Neither can they make progress in the industrial arts. Agents and employ68 are but littls leas than .laves to their wards under the present syatnlu in Utah aud Nevada. DifimZtiss of administration.-Wbilo the Indiana remain ucattered abos t the country it is impoeeible to maoh them. Not one-half of the In(!isns of my digtrict, rho hold treaty relations with the Governnwnt., can be reached wlth their annulty goods; thus maup complaints arise of neglect on the part of the Government. 6chools oannot be established, or mivsianary rrork carried on among them as they now are, n-itbout great expense. In fact, there om be no eoncentrated effort in behalf of the "poor Iodian?' Wants of my district.-I am at a. loss to ssy what they are, they rice so roauy. I lmva fonnd that my heart has had to aohe doring the year, because I was ohliced to say, both to white man and Indian, "the appropriation 1s too meager." I have not been able to ~ i v bela nketa to one in ten of my wards, nud other goods in proportion. So far as financial wants are concerned, we n e e $100,0W instearl of about one-fifth or one-fourth of that amount. The Goship Iudnus alone need at least $5,000 tu meet their real wants moderately, ipstend of $1,000. We need the nchool-teacher and t,he teaoher of Chdstirsnity among them. We need the teacher of the industrial acts, both male aod female. We need men aud women among them who have bodies, brains and hearts, sod who know how to use them, and are not aebamed to use them, and dill patitiedtly +nd peruevering!y use them ; ?en, those art, the very first manta. We want these Iodraus in large bodles, on roservatlous wisely looated, so that teachera of every class wsentisl $0 devclop the mauhood and wan~&hood of thwe Iudieus can be eotiloyed. Sanitery mn8ition.-Diseases of various kinds prevail Very extensively among aI1 the Indiana of my district. Uutilthey are settled by themselves this atate of thilrgs must continne. In faot, their unguarded manner of lirilng will do morn to decimate their numbere then war. It is painfill to eootempl&le how few childrm there are among them, za compared with those who live mare remote from th. settlements, and especi-ally than those of the British Posne~sion~. 1 trust the noble policy of the President will continue until the "red men of the war-path" shall have become the red men of pe&cefiil homes, with s safeguard to their health and a safeguard to their edry inter-ent, in their broad intelligence, their steady industry, and their aonnd Christian prac-tlCB8. Very raspeatfully, your obedient servant, GEO. W. DODGE, United States Special I9~dian Agent. Eon. F. A. WALK~I~, Cornnliasimm Indian Affatr8, il'oshington, D. C. No. 48. I O a m O P SUPERINTENDEONFT I NDIABRNI AIR~, Santa #4, flea M ~ z i wO, c t o k 10, 1R'i2! SIE: I have the honor to submit this my ssoond annual report of the affairs of this I snperintendenoy dnring the p s t ye=, together with the annnnl reports of the several I agents, and your attention is invited to a statement of the business of each agency, ss fullows: |