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Show REPORT OF TIIf: COMXISSIONEK OF WDIAN AFFAIRS. 21 in southweetern Colorado. They and the Jicaril#a Apaches, having lwg been neighbors and intermamid, expressed to Agent Lahadi c emng daeire to con-tinue united, which desire &odd certainly he ptifid. The Oapotes and Watlnemncbes (Guignimuohes) ax replwented as friendly tsibes of the great family of Utaha, powerful, warlike, and independent. Agent Archnleta repnaents them as a wandering people, living partly h~ the chase, partly by the aid of government, and partly by stealing and begging; &at they are utterly debased, and of the lowest grade of intelligence. They are disinclined to aettle upon aoy reservation, and the superintendent appears to think that snch conoentration is unnecessary at p~eent; aud that when the progress of white population shall demand it, it ean be effected without serious di&oulty. The Pueblos Indians, eonceming whom an elaborate repart was furnished last year by Agent Ward, showing their nnmher in the different villages, with mneh other vdable information, remain in much the same oondition, except that two or three of the villages or settlements have aoffeced greatly fmm drought, and from sudden overflow of shams, destroying their crops of grain and fruit, 80 that relief is aeeessary to keep them from starvation. fluch directions have been given as will enable this office to know to what extent relief is necessary, and such relief will he given as the fnnda at hand will allow. Thae Indiaos are a quiet agrieultnral people, industrious and nelf-sustaining, and need only, in o r d k y o immstaneee, aid in the way of ~gricaltortlli mple-mnts; but they are very desirous to have schools established among them, and this will be done as soon as it can be aa~ertaioed where, among the many viL lages. schools can he established to the best advantage, ss it is apparent that the fnnda at the disposal of this office will not allow of provision for a school at each of the nine+een villages. In regard to the Navajos, now established at the Bosqne Redondo reservation, tbeaocumulated testimonv is so conflictine: derived fmm sonrces euuallv entitled tooredit, and from perno& who should h&e,and, so far as appears; have had but one object inview-the best interest of the government and of the Indians, that I am rkluctaut at present to express a decided opinion in regard to the perma-nent policy to he adopted. The difference is wide between the riews of the late supekinteudent, Dr. Steck, who urgad, and was snpporte,d by excellent author-itv in ureine, that the Bouqne Redondo reservation was barely sufficient for the ~p a c h e s~f ow;h om it was 'eot apart-that the Naeajhe and Apaches could not live together upon it; that the Navujna could best support themselves upon a nservation in iheir own eountrr, where they had diim been an wricuitnral and pastoral people, raising large crops, andmaking thbir own from the produce of their own floeke, and that the enormous expense of feeding them s t the Boeqne Redondo, counting by millions almoet, was an nnnecessary ex-penditnr- nd those of General Oarleton, the military cmnmandant of the di~trict,w ho insisted that, for &e sake of permanent peace, the Navajos must he taken entirely away from their own eanntry, and that whenonce settled npon a reservation they would pmvide for their own support. General Oarleton took the responsibility of testing the question by removing the Navajos to the re~ervation; and this being done, they have been supported there by the War Department, with the aid of an appropriation of a cornpara-. tively small amount by Oongresa, placed at tlie disposal of the Interior Depart-ment. An attempt was made late in 1864, by sending a special agent to the Temtory, to obtain such definite iuformation as to the case as to enable Congreen to act finally upon the subject, but the report of the agent did not reach this ofice in time for action ; and. indeed, while much valuable testimony was furnished oa both sides of the mooted question, and much light thrown upon bothsides, it seemed aa difficult as eve1 to make a j n ~ dt e cision. On the whole, inasmuch as the Navajos are at the reservation, where, as appears fmm Superintendent Del- |