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Show ~ ~- REPORT OF THE COMMlSSIONXK OF INDIAN AFFAIRS. The surveys required to make allotments within the diminished reser-vation have also been executed and approved, the census has been , taken, and the Indians will soon select their tracts, when the allotments will he made. ALLOTXENT OF LAND FOB. NON.RESEBVATION INDIANS. Since the publication of the last annual report, 164 allotments have been made nuder the fourth section of the act of February 8, 1887 (24 Stats., 388), by Speciad Agent 0. F. Larrabee, on duty in this Office. Erom reliable information it is ascertained that many of the non-re8ervation Indians throughout the country manifest a strong desire to avail themselves of the provisions made for them in this act, and to I settle down to the pursuits of civilized life. This is largely due to the 1 fact that the country is fast settling up by the whites, causing them to see that they are liable to bedispossessed of their lands by the settlers, unless they can acquire a permanent title. Not only has the individual Indkau in manj instances volontarilj sought a home for himself and family, but entire commnnities have expressed a willingness anti even anxiety to take allotments of lands long used and occupied by them in common. Under date of April 15, 1889, late United States Indian Agent Qwy-dir, of the Oolville Keservation, Wash., reported that certain non-reser-ration Kootenai Indians, located iu north Idaho, were in a destitute condition; that the whites planuing for or already engaged in mining operations were overruoning the countrx occupied and claimed by them; t,hat they had driven away the mule, which, up to that time, had consti. tuted the prina'ipal support of the Indians, and that "Isiac and Xelisca," in their appeals for relief, begged that "Washington, the Great Father," be ioformed of this state of facts. Subsequent correspondence relating to these Indians shows that they number some two hundred and eighteen; . . ' tbat they are strongly attached to their old homes, and that they earn-estly desire to secure titles nuder the provision of the fourth section of the general allotment act. September 6,1889, this office received information to the effect that there were some five or six hundred Indians living in Ukiah Valley, Mendooino Coonty, Cal., who desired to acquire title to the lauds oc-cnpied by them ; that they were peaceable, industrious, temperate, and law-abiding, and that they were ar~xious to educate their children in the art of agriculture and advance them in the path of civilization. Inclosed with the communication above mentioned was a copy of a speech made by Oalpella, an old man and chief, alleging that his fore-fathers dwelt in that valley long before either the Spaniard or American appeared therein ; that there were some one hundred and fifty families reeidiug there, who desired to obtain homes for themselves ; that they would build their own dwellings, sohool-houses, and churches if the |