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Show 180 KEPORT OF THE BOARD OF INDIAN COMMISSIONERS. SANDY SPRING, MARYLAND, Fintmonth 10, 1872. DEAR FRIEND: Thy favor of the 4th instant was received last evening. In the present state of the weather, the roads, and my health, I do not feel able to undertake a ride of eighteen miles by private conveyance, and shall therefore he deprived of the pleasure of meeting with the Indian commission and other friends of the Indians to- morrow, as kindly invited to do by thee. My friends and neighbors, B. Ruth Roberts, who is now secretary of the Indian com-mission of Baltimore yearly meeting of Friends, and Richard F. Beutly, a member of our Indian commission, will probably attend. Both of them have their ' hearts warmly enlisted in the Indians' favor. I have made out, to the best of my ability, answers to the questions proposed in the printed circular, which I hope to be able to forward to thee by the friends above named, with ardent desires for the successful accomplishment of the objects of your meeting, and my kindest respects to the members individually. I remain thy sincere friend, BENJ'N IIALLOWELL. ANSWERS. There are six agencies under our branch of the Society of Friends. They, are located in the eastern portion of the State of Nebraska, and constitute what is called the northern superintendency. Four of the reservations border on the Missouri River. Of the other two, one is about seventy- five miles, the other about one hundred miles west of that river. Thomas Ligbtfoot is agent of the Great Nemaha agency; Albert L. Green agent of the Otoes and Missourias ; Jacob M. Troth agent of the Pawnees ; Dr. Edward Painter agent of the Omahas; Howard White agent of the Winuebagoes; Joseph Webster agent of the Santee Sioux. At the Great Nemaha agency there is one day- school and industrial home for orphans. At the Otoe agency there is one day- school. At the Pawnee agency there is an indus-trial boarding- school with about 70 pupils of both sexes, and a day- school with about 50 of both sexes. At the Omaha agency there are tbree day- schools. At the Winne bago agency, three day- schools. At the Santee agency there are tw r o mission schools. The number of scholars not known, except as given above for the Pawnees. They should all be taught to speak, read, and write the English language. Agents complain of want of funds for schools, and to enable them to put on the im-provements of their allotments, so that the Indians may support themselves. The agents all agree that there should be at least one industrial boarding- school on each reservation, to which to advance the meritorious scholars, as they are prepared there-for in the day- schools. Seven Friends at least have gone out as teachers to the Indians Mary B. Lightfoot for the Nemahas; Sally C. Ely and Lizzie R. Walton for the Otoes and Missourias; Phebe Sutton for the Pawnees; Theodore Giriiugham and wife for the Omahas, and Sidney Averill for the WT iunebagoes. The Friends have sent out various supplies, as books, maps, slates, & c., clothes for children, and for sick, aged, and infirm persons ; medicines, dried fruit, and other suitable things for the sick; scissors, needles, thimbles, & c., for the girls, with dresses ready cut out to be made up, and material for more, so as to invite them to industry. Collections have not been taken up in our meetings, but appropriations have been made from their treasuries, and sums of money and articles of clothing and other needful things have been donated by individual members, in 1869 and 1870, amounting in all to over $' 21,000. The amount for the year just past has not been ascertained. It is very desirable and strongly to be recommended that the Indians in this super-intendency may have some reliable guarantee, that the improvements they make on their allotments shall be permanently theirs to enjoy where they now are, undisturbed, as long as they desire to hold them. BENJ'N IIALLOWELL. VINCENT COLYER, / Secretary Hoard Indian BOARD OF FOREIGN MISSIONS OF THE PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH, Mission House, 23 Center Street, Rew York, January 10, 1872. DEAR SIR : Your favor of the 6th instant was duly received, containing inquiries concerning the Indian agencies, for which nominations were made to the appointment of agents by this board of missions. I reply to these inquiries with pleasure, so far as practicable. 1. The agents appointed upon the nomination of the board are as follows: Mr. Seminole agency; Mr. Miller, Navajo agency, Apache agency, New Mex-ico; Mr. Williamson D. Crothers, Moqni agency, Arizona; Mr. Orlando F. Piper, Southern Apache agency, New Mexico Mr. John J. Critchlow, Uintah Valley agency, Utah ; Mr. . e agens appone e mnon e Theophilus Griffith, Choctaw agency; Henry Breiner, M. D., Se Charles F. Roedel, Cimarron agency, New Mexico ; Mr. James H. Mi New Mexico and Arizona; Mr. Andrew J. Curtis, Mescalero Apach |
