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Show been completed, as directed by the department, they will no doubt be in-cited to renewed efforts for their further advancement in civilization. and if properly assisted will be,coine in a few years wholly self-sustain: ing. A few, discouraged by the delay in making adlotments, went to Dakota, and have taken homesteads near t.he Big Sioux River. Super-intendent Janney reco~nmends that a mill be built for the Indians on Bazil Creek, which runs through the reservation, there being none for grinding wheat nearer than forty miles. About four hundred acres have been cultivated, and a fair crop of corn pro'nced. A large building for use as a hospital and school is being put up. The American Board of Commissioners fox Foreign Missio~~asr e disposed to erect mission buildings if assured of the permanency of the reservation. Omaha I n d i m have a fine country of 345,000 acres, a portion of which has been allotted in severalty :o 270 lreads of families in tracts of one hundred and sixty acres each, and t'o 58 unmarriedpersollseighteen years of age and over, forty acres. The present number of the tribes is 1,017, an increase of fifteen since last annual report. Their condition generally is fa,vorable, having raised good crops of corn, and beiug in possession of a large number of ponies, some oxen and cows. More provideut and self-reliant than other Ind~anso f the suuerintendenev. ~ ~ - 7 illex ticl~lumr eq~~i rIlcc lp frolu the goverulnrut. Some ;li~.inrisrh~~rio~~ existing iu tllc rrilbci i l l refi.rencv to tht2 1111;1r1ling-sclc~suto;*l blijl~edo n tl~t.r tyst.rveI I V rlie I're8b\.feri;lu Boar11 ut'l.'ore~c.lJ~1 isaio11.j.t o\v;~r~thle support of which the Indians appropriated $3,750 per anhum of their annuity funds, this office deemed it proper to cancel the contract made with the society under which it was agreed the sum mentioned should be paid for the boarding and tuition of the Omaha children sent to the school, and accordingly their secretary was notified last summer it would cease to be of effect after the 30th Septemser, ultimo. By the establishmeat of day schools, which the chiefs have asked for, a greater number of children will be benefited and harmony restored in the tribe in reference to this matter. Wiiznebauo Indians. numbering 1.343. are located on a renervn- ~ - ~ ~ - - ~~ tion of onehundred $nd twenty-zght tbbusand acres adjoining that of the Omahas. Their moral and sanitary con~lition the agent in charge r e~or t sto be unfavorable. resulting frdm their vices an&conereaetiue ir~.ra\,iuvsa r1~11111I1r~li;lxthcye$ x~<Il~.lrera, 11i1d wellingiu ill-;-b~~ih>~tez l g . T liry :ire, I~owe\-erd, ispo.icd to be induntrin~~itn' rile pru1,cl iu-centive is furnished. and are much ~ l e a s ~wdith the idea ofbavine a home they can call their own. The illotment of land in severalty i i i n progress and mill shortly be completed. Congress should provide liberal appropriations to help them to improve the allotments gken tltern, and to better their condition. Two schools are in operation with poor re-sults, the older people being indiferent in the matter of education, and giving little encouragement to the children and teachers. Four hundred acres are under cultivation, and by the labor of the Indians a large tract has been prepared for next spring's planting. Pawnee Indians, on a reservation of 288,000, are the largest and most warlike of the tribes in Nebraska. and number 2.308. The~v" have emnced ~~ ~~~ their loyalty to tlie goverulnelir on I ~ I ~ I I ?o.c easio~~s~r t'~urld~ix hcd~ ~xcel. Irut scouts fibr our aruq. Tl~eya rn iurlinr~rlo agncl~lt~lraen, d \~uuld doul~tletira vnil rhcmti~lreao f the ariu~~l:~tiilok nt l~eirt reutv of 1857. which provides a farm for each head of family, to settle down iu that pursuit, abandoning the chase, and would do so but for the fear of iuter-ruption by their old enemies the Sioux, against whose a t t d s they have continually to be on the alert. Having been recently supplled with |