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Show eried tribes and bands of Cheyennes, Arapahos and Apaches." This treaty 'will soon be laid before you, with a special report in reference to it. The new agent, Mr. Taylor, who waa lately appointed to the Upper Arkan-sas agency, was directed to report to Governor Evans, or to his sneoessor, Gov-entor Gumming, for assignment to such duty as he should denignate in connex-ion with the Indian service. As the Indians, nndet arraugements made at the council above referred to, are to wide temporarily on the reservation made by the treaty of Fort Wise, aod at the lace where the impuovement,s we* being made for them, this agent has been sent to that pointto remain with the Indiana there until ihe necessary steps can be taken to remove the latter to their new seservation south of the Arkaneas river. The report of the commisamn above referred to will he found among the doe-nments acwmpanying thispport. DAKOTA. This superintendency, comprising the Territory of Dakota, has been for a considerable time the scene of interesting events, it being the region in which General Sully has carried on his campaigns against the Sionx Indians of the upper Ivlissouri and country adjacent thereto ; *bile General Conner's operations ~ against the Sioux and other Indians of the upper Plntte, whose agency was at Fort Laramie, have driven those Indians far up into the region attached to Da-kota for judicial purposes, but lying west bf that Territory, and between Col-orado on the south and Montana on the north. There are five agencies in this superintendency, via : Yamtom, at their reservation on the Missouri river, near Fort Randall, and near the aoutbern boundary of the Territory; P. H. Conger is the agent, the number of Indians'being 2,300. Pmcas, near the Yancton reservation, on the Niobrara river, wb3chforms part of the boundary between Dakota and Nebraska; Agent Potter has them in charge, uumbering at the last eensua 1.100. Crow Creceek Agency, near old Fort Pierre, on the Missouri. This is the point . selected for a home for both the Winnebagoes and Sioux of tbe Mississippi, who . were removed from Minnesota. The Winnebagoes have gone down to the Oma-ha reservation, in Nebraaka Territory, leaving the Sioux, numbering 1,039, by a late enumeration, under the charge of Agent Stone. Umer Missumi Siouz. This agency has scarcely a loeal habitation ; Mr. 8. N. Latta, who held, until recent1 , the office of agent, and who has from time to time distributed the annuity goo& due to the Indians, having had of late very little to do with tbem, an tbey have for the moat part been included among the hostile tribes. Governor Edmunds, ez-o@cio superintendent, estimate8 the num-ber of the various hands a% follows : Two Kettles, ?SO; Minnecongos, 2,220 ; Yanktonnais, 4.200 ; Uncpapas, 2,400, and Blackfeet Sioux, 1,200 ; Sioux of the \Iississippi (not on the reservation) about 800, making a total of about n 3 1~6JIl --'$$r Mia~opcn'. The tribes held as belonging to this agency, having its head-quarters at Fort Berthold, far up on the Misaauri river, under the charge of Agent Wilkinson, are the Gms Ventre*, Arickarees and Mandana, togethernum-bering 2!600 ; the A~sinaboinese, stimated at 3,280 ; and the Crows at 3,500; the latter tnbe, however, ranging into what is now Montana Territory. New agents have, during the past season, been appointed for the Yanctons, Poncas, and Sioux at Crow. creek. the commission of Mr. Burleieh at the first-named agency having expired, thi second having been vacant fir a year, and Agent Baleombe, who had ellarge uf both the Sioux and Winnl:h:i~oes, having -zo ne down to the Omal~ar tservation with the latter tribe. Su~.eidlr e1.,o rta. rc- . quired hy the superintendent of each of these new agents, in regard to the con-ditionof affairs as tbey found tbem, were forwarded to this office, and from these and the monthly reports since sent in we obtain much valuable information. |