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Show 34 REPORT OF THE COMMISSIOXER ,OF INDIAN AFFAIRS. Cherokee country and occupy their future homes; many have already sold their lands, realizing therefrom enough to enable them to secure in their new positions comfortable homes; others, however, are sqnan-dering their meaos and will he compelleil to remove in poverty. Black Bob's band do not desire to go to the same countsy with their brethren the '' severalty l1 Indians,, as they are not on good terms with them, but would prefer a home wlth some of the smaller tribes in the Indian country. 08qes number about 4,000, and were, before the late rebellion, mak-ing fair progress in civilization, being the possessors of a large number of cattle, horses, and hogs, andcultivating fields of corn, and having an interest in education, manifested in sending their children to the excel-lent manual labor school established in the nation under the Catholics. Bnt between the contending arndes they were despoiled of their prop-erty, which greatly demoralized them, and they are now in a deplora-ble condition. If guilty of depredations, as charged against them, they have been indnced to that course of action by stern necessity in order to relieve their suferiogs. They have an extensive domain of sev-eral millions of a,cres of little use or protit to them, but which, if sold, would produce a fund ample to comfortably establish a,nd sustain them on a reservation in the Indian territory. To effect this end the treaty of 1868 was negotiated, which has been noticed in the foregoing part of this report. - Qziapaws, Senecas, and Senecas confederated with Sliazoneen, included witli the Osage tribe in what is known as the Neosho agency, occ~~py small reservations in the northeast corner of the Indian country, and have ma,de limited advances in education. Before the war they ob-tained a comfortable livelihood by farmingandraising stock; ,since then their situation has been less favorable, althoogl~ they are doing well in many respects; they number altogether about GOO. The treaty with these tribes, concluded February 23, 1867, having been ratified, cer-tain tribes in Kanvas have been l~rovidedw ith homes on the lmds ceded thereliy to the government ; the confederation of the Senecas mith the Shawnees is dissolved, the latter to be known hereafter as the Eastern Shawnees, and t.he former uniting with the other band of Senecas. Provision is also made for the investigation of the claims of these sev-eral t,ribes for losses sustained in conseaueuce of bein.e. driven from their hiunrs in 111I~n t lL war an11 the ~ l c n t r ~ ~ oc it tih;e~ir~ ]~,r <,pcrtg. P,!,:oriua,l insl:oal:in%, ll'cfls crnd l'innl:r~vlrau~rn, uml)eriug about 200, partic!s to t l ~trre .ltg illst abi~verr frrre~tlo . B.IIO suld [heir 1i111ilt1i0 actui~l settlers, have removid from Kansas and'are now in the India,n terri-tory, upon the lands ceded to the United States under said treaty, by the Senecas confederated with the Shawnees, and by t.he Qnapaws, the Wyandotts being provided with a home on t.hat ceded by the Senecas proper Superintendent Hoa,g reports that they are activellg engaged in their new homes in building ho~lscs and opening farms and other-wise preparing for their fature comfort and prosperity. Miamies, as reported last year, number 92 souls,.exclusive of those residing in Indiana, and still remain in Kansas, with the exception of a few who have followed their neighbors, the four confederated bands, (Peorias and others,) into the Indian country, and with u~hom, it is provided by treaty stipulations, all of the Miamies nlay unite upon the ful6Ument of certain conditions. They hold la,nds in severaltv. and are iu~lnstrioua, n11d cnpnhln of s~~at:iinintgh en~~el rwr sit h L I I l~it tle care :lull a~s idtn~~t hec~ nth e goverulnellt. Tlie . \ l iau~ieb~ei ng the ol~lg l n d i ~ uu~w left in tho Osage Kiver agenq, ir is rzcommc-nded that the |
