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Show REPORT OF THE COMMIS8IONER OF INDIAN AFFAIRS. 119 THE OSAGE RESERVATION. Reference was made in my last annual report to the more important provisions of the act of June 28, 1906 (34 Stat. L., 539), which authorized an equal division of the tribal lands and funds of the Osage Indians among the members of the tribe. ALLOTMENTS. The reservation contains an area of 1,470,057 acres. On the basis of an enrollment of 2,250 members of the tribe this will furnish about 650 acres to each one. The trust funds of the tribe amount to some $9,000,000. There will, therefore, be set aside about $4,000 to each Indian. About half the land is classed as agricultural, the remaining being rough pasture. The reservation is rich in mineral deposits of oil, gas, lead, zinc and coal, but there has been little development of these resources except oil and gas. During the fiscal year just closed the allotting commission which was organized August 14, 1906, has been actively engaged in carry-ing out the provisions of the act. The roll of the tribe as certified to the commission by the agent on July 6, 1907, showed a membership of 2,230. Of ,this number 926 are classed as full bloods and 1;304 as mixed bloods. For many years the property interests of the Osages have been so large as to induce white men to marry into the tribe. This accounts, in part, for the large percentage of mixed bloods. Many of them are practically white, with the keen business iil~tincts of the white man, and through industry and enterprise they have come into possession of the greater part of the improved land of the reservation. On the other hand, the nonprogressive full bloods, as a rule, have been content to, live in camps and villages in the south-central and southwestern part of the reservation, where they have banded together with the evident purpose of continuing tribal cus-toms and commuual property. Because of the problems presented by the difference in intelligence and enterprise of the two classes, and because the full bloods demanded protection from the schemes of the mixed bloods, it has difficult for the commission to car1.y out the provisions of the act and at the same time mete out equal justice to both sides. FrauduZmt enroZhent.-The act provided that the principal chief should within three months file with the Secretary of the Interior a list of the names which the tribe claimed were placed on the roll ny fraud, and that the Secretary of the Interior should investignte the placing of these names on the roll and have' power to drop from the roll the names of persons and their descendants .found to have baen placed thereon by fraud. The principal chief prepared a list of 144 persons, principally grouped in the following families : Clem, Javine, |