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Show in as good a position as any of the tribes to he inclnded in the arrangement. I feel that such provision as will he satisfactory to this people ought to he made soon, if possible, as their case is an exceptional one, and a hard onepaud has been borne with a degree of patience nnusnal to the race. The greater portion of the four bands of Sioux mentioned as being in charge of this superintendency are still hostile, and military operations against tbem have continued through the year. Those who were removed to Gn ~wC reek with the Winnebagoes amounted to abont one thonsand three hundred in nnm-her, being mostly women and children, the families of those who were taken prisoners by the military after the massacre of 1862, together with such of the men as came in and gave themselves np, and returned some hundreds of the white captives who had been taken by the hostile parties. Altogether there were about one hundred men able to hunt. Some addition has since been made to this number by prisonere released from confinement at Davenport. Un-nestionably great injustice has been done to many of these people, whose ziendly acts were repaid by harsh treatment and by confinement. The state-ment of Reverend Jtr. Williamson shows this vely clearly. The Sioux at Crow creek have remained quietly on the reservation, but, owing to the cansen above referred to, have been unable to provide for themselves. Siuce the out-break of 1862, the annuities of the tribe have ceased to be paid, and they are provided for by direct appropriations by Congress, and I recommend the subject of an early additional appropriation to your favorable consideration. Superin-tendent Thompson suggests that they could nid themselves to some extent by the hunt, and recommends that fifty horses and some guns should he given them for the purpose. I t does not appear to me at all certain that the pod likely to result to the Indians from this course would offset the possible evil which might follow a capture of these arms and horses by the hostile bands of Sioux; hut if there is to be no snfficient garrison at or near Crow Creek, the Indiana must have the means of defeuding themselves. The school among the Winnebagoes has been suspended during a part of the summer, but was to be reopened on the 1st of October. Even with the largest portion of the tribe abset;t, the nchool, taught by tducntcd Indians, wils quite succrssrhl. Therc is no niisaio~o~f any kind among this people, and the axcot iu~iteath e attention of the val.ious inis6011 Loards ot' the country to thia fgct. There are two missions amone the Sioux. which have been auite-success- ~ ~ ~ ~~~ . ~-~ ~~ ful in indueing thia people to remainon terms with the wlriten,~ttrnd to t l~ec l~ltivariono f the soil, and seek aud ohrain the advautagea of educntion. If these Sioux could be morcfavorablv located. better results innll tlrederernects might reasonably be expected. The Chippewas of Mississippi, numbering about fonr thonsand souls, have continued on peaceable terms with the whites, this being particularly the case with the Mille-lac hand, who have expressed the greatest unwillingness to go to the Crow Wing agency for their annuities, lest some of their people might be nnfavorahlv influenced hv those of other hands whose fidelit"v the"v thi.nk o.ne n to snspici&. An arrangement has been made which will he satisfactory to them in this respect. Some of these people are much dissatisfied with their unsettled condition, the failure of the Senate to reach and ratify the treaty L, made with them last year having left them m a state of uncertainty as to what is to be their ultimate location. The extensive region which they propose to cede to the United States is ttnderatood to be very valuable, particularly for the business of lumbering, while the country reserved to the Indians is well adapted to their various wants, and quite satisfactory to them. I trust that at the coming session of Congress this treaty will he ratified without delay. The Pillager and Lake Winnebagoshish bands of Chippewas have been peace-able and quiet, and have found in tlte pmsuit of game and sale of furs at high prices, the planting of some five hundred acres of land and care of the |