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Show I REPORT OF THE COMJIISSIOSER OF INDIAN AFFAIRS. 49 of obtaining and retaiuing a position among civilized people equal to that which our best hopes for t.11em have conceived. I t is to he regretted thnt, with all this apparent prosperity, reasons exist for expecting, in the case of most of these tribes, a check to their progress in cirili-zation. Allusion ha8 heretofore been made to the difficulties wl~icli~e in their way, arisiug from the crowding into the immediate vicinity of their reservations ' of white settlers upon the public lands, lying in every direction, suhjectto public , entry, around those reee~~ationsA. mong these settlers are too many who are 1 unscrupulous as to the rights of the Indians; their timber, scarce in Kansas at the beat., is cut down, and their stock run off in many iustances, and the hope of redress is very small. On account of these and other troubles most of the In-liians, including many of the most intelligent and best educated, are anxious to remove to the Indian country south of Iiausas, where white settlers cannot in-terfere with them. When once settled upon new and fertile reservations there, it may he hoped that they will realize their hopes of earning a comfortable living in peace; but the business of op. enin.e. and u.r e.~ ar i.n, en ew farms and homes is a trdit.os and lalrorioua one., and r$Sml. t i r ~ r~n1tu .t nccur h+f ,rc tllcrt, thiogj XTP BC-coml~ lisl~ed.'I 'lle State o i Kilnnm in fist king fillet1 by ,111 c>orrgericp ~ p o l ~ ~ i o n who nppt.rcintc good land, nnd the Itldi:~r~e,3 ervarionn were rt.lc~ctcda a bein-c the best i; h e Stat; But one result can be expected to follow. Under the head of the Northern Superintendency reference was made to cer-tain difficulties between Indians and frontier settlers, resultinr in an attemn,~ted ~ p r l l~r i n go ?volt~tlrrerf~ro m tho rrservariu!~r ril~csn, nd to the &liar, uf tl1i.i uifice th, rrupon. It ouly relnains t u :~ddtL irr, ulmn the rrt'crrnrt, to Illid ufiee of tht; clncitiorl :ts to permittioz tllr Indian3 to clll131 f j r ir 11.rra of veal.3 in tile rr,-e ttler &my, under recent enn&ments, authorizing the enlistment if certain regiments for frontier service, there was no hesitation in granting the desired permission. The Kickapoos, the northernmost of the Kansas tribes, nnmheriug 242 in all, are represented by their agent to be in a favorable condition. They have cnlti-vated 1,083 acres this year and broken 251 more for planting; a d their crops have realized for them ahont 48,000 bushels of grain and 1,300 bushels of pota-toes. Thcv own ahont 700 head of stock, and their iudividual wealth is atate4 at $44,290.- One strong evidence is given of their good disposition and conduct in the fact that, although both the overland route and Atchison and Pike'a Peak railroad pasa through their resermtion, there is little or no drunkenness among them. These Indians having-expressed a desire for the re-establishment of a school among them, their wishes have been granted, and at last accounts four-teen children were in attendance in a portion of the old mission building, re-paired for the pnrpose, and were learning rapidly under a faithful tearher. The opportunity of introducing the Kindergarten system has been given to this school. The agent thinks that it would be well to establish a rnlnnal labor school iu the building as soon as the funds of the tribe are increased, as they soon will he by payments for their lands sold under the last treaty ; hut it is qnes-tionable whether it is best to undertake such a movement until it is certain that the majority of the people will co~lclodeto remain in Kansas. The conditiou of this little tribe is somewhat peculiar, as now organized and resident upon their reservation. The majority of the people are not Kickapoos . by blood, but Pottawatomies, who some years since purchased a right to a share in the lands and annuities of the tribe; and when, under the last treaty, allotments were made upon the diminished reserve, amnjority of those who took them were Pottawatomies, while most of the genuine Kickapoos continued to live upon the common lands. But, somewhere in the.south, lost to view among the fragmentary tribe8 driven hither and thither by the events of the rebellion, there is supposed to he 4 C I |