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Show 34 REPORT OF THE COMMISSIONER OF. INDIAN AFFAIRS. COLORADO. No annual report from this snperintendency has been received,.hut from our files of correspondence we have to report that the condition of affairs is very uasatisfaclory.* There are two agencies, one for the Grand Riverhand of Utes,,with thehead-quarters at Denver, and the other for the Taheqnache Utes, in the southern part of the Territory, the latter being under treaty stipnlations. The Grand River hands have beenin a state of discontent for some time,and have been Visited by the superintendent, Governor Gnmmings, who has reported by telegraph that he has effected a satisfactory arrangement with them, huc the mails have not yet brought on the details of that arrangement. The governor has also recently visited the Tabequache Utes, finding them restlese, and some of the hands threatening trouhle on account of the failure of their goods to come to hand ; hut this office was advised by telegram that the governor left them qniet. Almost immedintely upon the receipt of this despatch came another, with advices from Fort Garland, in the southeastern part of 001- orado, stating that some of the Utes had broken out into open hostility. The Indians alluded to, so far as we are advised, are a-part of the Mohuache and Tahenoche Utes, properly belonging in New Mexico, hut it was apprehended that the Tabequaches might hacame involved. The superintendent intended to cdist~ibuteth e goods to the latter at once, they having fortunately arrived. DAKOTA. A change in anperintendents very receptly made in this very important die . <trict is probably the reason why we have not received the usual careful sum-mary of events and recommendations from the goveruor and superintendent a .oficio. This is much to he regretted, as the late governor, honorable Newton Edmunds, has not only been in charge during the occurrence of highly import-ant eventa among the various tribes of Dakota, hut has been one of the commis- ..sioners appoiuted by the President to treat witl? the Sioux and the other tribes residing in the northern part of the Territory. Possibly annualreportsmay yet he received from the superintcndent and agents; and if eo, theywill he inserted .among the accompanying documents. Meantime, however; I proceed with a -summary of events, derived from the various and voluminous correspondence of the year, relating to Dakota and its Indian population, which greatly exceeds in nomhora that of the whites. The tribes of Dakota are the Yanctons and Poncns, in the southeast; having ~eservat,ionso n the hlissouri and between that river and the Niohrara, the varl-on0 hands of Dakotas or Sioux, hitherto claiming the country on both sides of the lfissouri for a long distance towards its great bend to the westward, and the Arickarees, Gros Ventres of the plains, and bfandans, confederated and resident in the neighborhood of Fort Berthold. A portion of the extensive range of the Oxows lies in that district of country south of Montana,whichis temporarily at-iached to Dakota ; while the remains of the Santee Sioux, formerly in Minnesota, and who fled to the north after the outbreakin 166% are also in Dakota, or in the British dominions directly north of and near the boundary line, Thd Winne-haeoes. who were for some time located at Crow creek. near old Fort Randall. haGe heen entirely removed, and provided with new homes upon lands purchased from the Omahas ; and that part of the Santee Sioux who accom~aniedth e Win-nehapoes to Crow creek hape also been removed. and furnished-with a new res-ervaGon near Niohrara, in Nebraska. A very full statement of matters relating .The S~xpelperintendent's snnnal report arrived at s later day, aod is printed among the accompanying documents. |
