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Show REPORT OF THE COMMISSIONER OF INDIAN AFFAIRS. 7 with much industry. Tbey were promised as good a location elsewlrere, but the location selected was a mistake, and the tribe suffered terribly during its first winter at Crow creek. Tbey have been remarkably patient duriug the three years which hare rlapsed since their removal from llionesota, aud very anxious to be placed in a position where,they can again eet a b o ~ ~thte cultiva-tion of the soil. In the treaty now referred to, Congress has been liberal with them. They release to the United States the Crow Creek reservation, and are to have erected for them a steam saw and grist mill, and to receive 100 cows, 400 horses, 20 yoke of oxen and wagons; all the necessary buildings for a com-plete agency are to be erected for them, and they are to be paid the expenses of removing and of subsistence for one year. The work upon their buildings and breaking of land for farms has been rapidly prosecuted during the summer and fall, and a year or two of good management will place them in a very comforta-ble condition again. Po!tawatomies: Supplementary to treaty of 1861; concluded March 29, 1SGG: ratification advised April 26, 1866, and ~roelaimed May 5, 1866. This treaty has but a single provhon, extending to 'women the sake right3 of citi-zenship and share in the capital fund of the tribe as was heretofore provided for the ad& males of the tribe: TREATIES MADE IN 1866. Bois Fort bandof Ch&xwas: Concluded April 7,1866; ratification advised, with amendments, April 26,1566 ; amendment accepted April 28,1866: ratified by the President Nay 5, 1866. These Indians are a portion of the Chippewas of Lake Superior, who were parties to the lreaty of Septemher, 1854, by which a large cession of land was made to the government, and a division was made of the annuities due to the great, body of Chippewas, the bands being divided between two agencies-one in Wisconsin, the otl~er in Minnesota. The Bois Fort band,liviug in the far north near the British line, were separately provided for, and provision wasmade for the seleGion for them at a future time of a res-ervation, wllich by sttbsequent action was partially located near Vermillion lake. Within the laet two years discoveries of gold have been made in that region, and the attention of shitrs was turned to the country, and several ex-pedjtions were fitted out for its exploration. The Indians became alammd and exc~tedo n acconnt of this invasion of their country, and the probability of col-lision between the partie8 made it desirable that an attempt should be made to obtain peaceable possession of tho country, and render it subject to entry as other public lauds. A delegation from the tribe accordingly visited, this city. I t was found for some time impracticable to effect any arrangement with them, as sundry parties had filled their minds with extravagant jrleas as to the extent of conntly which the Indians owned, and of its value as a geld region. This' hand, in the treaty referred to above, hnd reserved its rights in the Chippewa land west of the western boundary of the cesaion of 1S54, and tl~ie, together with their right to a m8eruation, not vet clrnrly defined, was all that e o ~ ~ lhde conceded to them. After much negotintion the treat:- mas finnllj made, by whicl~ they ceded all rights to any land wl~atercr except tn-o rescrmtions, to be selected as soon as practicable-+% of 100.003 acres, iucluding Set lake ;. the other of one township at the mouth of Deer creek; these locrrtious, however, being su1,jcct to the contingency that tlley should not be such as n-ould lead to conflict between the xv11ite miners and settlers and the Indians. Tlie govern-ment agrees to establish a blacksmith shop and school-lrouse, to build eight houses for chiefs, an agency house and storehouse, to expend annually for the tribe for twenty years $14,000, and to pay 830,000 for the establishment of the band upon its nerv rescn.ation and for presents to the t~iben, nd to pay $10,000 for the transl~ortationa nd expensCJ of the dclcgxtiou to this city. Under instrile- |