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Show wagons, harne'ss, and plows, they have gone to work with energy, and will make good use of the same, and if nothing occurs to render futile their efforts. their condition will be better than it has been for gears. Thrj were ;lot perruittt.d to go ou their clsu;~l snlnmer hunt; Ginera1 Augur fearing that if they went, the h i t e d dtate,soldiers~eight rl~istakc them tbr hostile Sioux. The mal~ual-labor r;r.liool alum&? tllrlu has ire11 highly beneficial; thirty scholars are in attendanoe, an2 morc could be receired if additional means were furnished. The ch~efsd esiring to en-courage tile proplp iu ;~~vi cul t~l~nrvee,n skctl 1L:1t it pi~rto i their cash annuity be exprnded in the purchase of impleme~o~ir 1~1 11shnudry. This sl,e;~ks\ \-ell for thv I'aw~~eeis~, otls hows that tliey are seeing tile necea-sity of preparing for a change in their mode of life. Otoe and Missouri Indians, on a reservation of 160,000 acres, number 440, a decrease of thirty-one since the last annual report. The condi-tion of these tribes is reported to be unsatisfactory, but it is thought with proper management it may be greatly improved. Some heretofore opposed to labor now manifest a disposition to work, and have ex-pressed a desire for houses, and allotments of land, which their treaty of 1854 provides shall he made. Scrofulous diseases prevail to a great extent among them, aud many of the children die on account of their squalid condition and the unhealthiness of their damp lodges. It is a question\rhether it would not be best for these I~ldiansto sell a part of their reserye, which is much larger than they need+ judicious expendi-ture beiug made of the proceeds for establishing a scllool among them, and to furnish whatever might be necessary to enable them to cultivate and improve their homes, or, whether the asrangement ageed upon iu their treaty now pending, for the purchase of the whole, and the removal of the tribes to the Indian country, south of Kansas, should be consum-mated. Their agent suggests that thenorthline of the reservation should be resurrcyed, as there is trouble about the matter between the Indians and the settlers. Sacs and Foxes of the Hissouri and Iowas are embraced in what is known as the Great Xemaha a.genoy, the former numbering 84, and the latter 228, each having a, reservation of 16,000 acres in the southeast corner of the State. The first-named confederate tribe do -very little in the way of farming, depending chiefly upon the annuities they receive from g-o~v ernment for subsistence.. and have no em~lov6tso helu them. ~ . " nor *cseln to have :I can: ibr ee111r:~;tioont ' tht.ir vhildrr~l. A twtier el:l& are the. IO\\.;IS. \vho ilw marc tcmpertae nod iudl~striousn, ome beii~ggootl farntc*l.s. The svl~uoal lnone tlic Lo\\.;IJ is well :~tte~idendn.d duillc coed. but it would perhaps be more beneficial were it mdde an induufitriai one. These tribes having expressed a desire to sell their laud and go south, the treaty referred to in that part of this report relating to the subject of pending treaties was accordingly negotiated with that object inview. Since then, audvery recently, petitions have been received from them praying that they be not ratified, the principal reason assigned there-for being the insufficiency of the price stipulated to be paid for the land. The Sacs and Foxes now say they want to sell, provided they can make a bargain with the Iowas for a uart of their reserve tinon which to set-tle, the Iowas are willing to'malie such an arrangement, and do not want to remove south. CENTRAL SUPE&W!CENDENCY. irhis superintendency embraces the tribes residing il: Kansas, together wjth several living in the lndian territory, south of that State, all being |
