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Show 29 the various tribes within these territories is too limited to justify it in making any specific recommendations as to the measures which should be adopted at this tine. The extension over them of the laws regulating our intercourse with the other Indians of the United States, and authority and means to appoint and maintain a suitable number of agents, will enable the Department to make such suggestions next year, for the consideration of the President and of Congress, as will lead to some more definite 1 and satisfactory action on the subject." And the same year President Polk recomsrended the appointment of a suitable number of Indian agents to reside among the tribes of Texas, New Mexico, and California including the region lying between our possessions in Missouri and these possessions, as the most effective means of preserving peace upon our borders and within the re- 2 cently acquired territory. The next step of the government was to appoint Indian agents in the new country. __ House Executive Documents, 30th Cong., 2nd. Sess, , vol. I, Doc. 1, pp. 407-* K> g ( 537) 2 Ibid., p. 20, ( 537). |
