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Show B-T OF TRE COJIMIS81ON&% OF INDIAN AFFAIRS. XXXI orers a t theagenc~,h aving come to tke wise co~rclusiont hat it is better to remain quietly at home than to go on the w~rpath. A boarding-school hasbeen esbbIished vhich, commencing with three wholam, $radually incremed until at the clow of the session there new twenty-seven children in attendance. . The agent, in his report, expresses the opinion that '1 this sc.001 is the very foundation of the ci~ilizatiouo E them two bands of Indians, and its success is consequently of greater importance than any other matter conn'ixted with the agency." The surmss of the same is so far assured,that more pupils wi l l~robablyb e fnruished the present fall than can be accommodated. The 1,040 Shoshones and 460 Bannocks at this agency have 460 acres of land in cultivation, upon which they have raised this year 5,750 ' bushels of wheat, 1,025 bushels oats and barley, 3,500 bushels vegetables, and 150 tons of hay. In addition to the above, 42,000 feet of saw-logs have been cut in the mountains, hauled to the saw-mill, aud converted into lumber by the Indians, with the assistance of a. sawyer, who nn the machinery of the mill. Two dwelling-houses and eight granaries have been erected dnriug the year, in the building of which the Indians have performed much of the hbor. There have also been erected a dwelling-house for the farmer, 24by 40, an addition to the commissary, 20 h2- 40, an11 an extension to the ice-house, 20 by 12. AGENCIES IN THE INDIAN TERRITORT. Whatever changes have occ~lrred among the tribes ill the Ir~dian Territory during the year have been in the line of improrement. At the Quapaw Agency the necessity for issues of rations, except to the aged and helpless, ceased long since. The Indians of the eight small tribes belonging thereto wear citizens' dress, are comfortably housed, have ample school facilities, and are virtually civilized. But though they have reached the position of self-support, they hax-e not acquired self-reliance, and the watchful care of the government muet uot cease for severrtl years to came. Schools must be supported, employes furnished, implements repaired and occasionally replaced, buildings must be kept in order, and the wholemachinery of an ageucy must becontinued; other. wise from the money and labor expended in the past will be realized merely a temporary instead of a permanent good. The Absentee Shawnees of the Sac and Fox Agency may be incl~tded in the above clmsification, but the conservative Sacand Fox, and the rest-less MexicanEickapoos, althougl~th ey havelearned to depend on fanning for about half of their subsistence, are very slow to adopt civilized dresa and customs, and the aversion of thc latter to both houses ancl school8 is yet to be overcome. The Poncas are referred to at length on page xxxv. The h'ez Percbs, attached to the Ponca Agency, are especially in-terested in the day school which has been opened among them, and which |