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Show XEW MEXICO SUPERINTENDENCY. 189 No. 48. FORTBR TDOEAR GENCY, Etaitah Tem'tory, July 15, 1867. SIR : Your commnnieation of June 3, in regard to the mixed hands of Indians who range about the head waters of the Yellowstone, Galitan, Madison, Snake. and Green rivers. around Bannack and Boise, frequently, in the Territory of Utah, was dtily received. According to your request, I have had chversations with Washakee and other headmen of the eastern bands of Shoshones, also with Tabjee, the chief of tbe Banoacks, and find that there does exist a very large hand of Bannacks, numbering more than 100 lodges ; I also find a few lodges of Shoshones with them. There also exists another band of Too-roo-reka, or Sheep eaters, a branch of the Shoshones, who live almost entirely in the mountains, and very seldom visit the white settlements. The last-named band speak the Shoshone dialect; the former have a dialect of their own. All of these Indians are very poor, and require the fostering hand of the govern-ment. They are very friendly, and desire to cultivate the m3st friendly rela-tions with all whom they meet. Large numbers of Bannacks visit this agency every year. More than fifty of their lodges were present at the distribution, to the eastern hand of Shoshones, of their annuities this year. I made a request of Washakee for them to share in the distribution of their goods, but he peremptorily refused. I also held a long conversation with the chief, Tahjee. He informed me that his Indians feel very mnch h n t~ t o think that the Great Father had not made them presents, knowing. as they d ~ dt,h at a11 the Indians by whom they were surrounded were receiving goods every year. They claim that they are good Indians,and that the government ought to, in viewof the fact that their country has been settled with the whites. give them a fair compensation for their loss. The settlements of Boise, Beaverhead, Bannack, and Virginia City, have driven them to seek for other hunting grounds, and they are compell~dto travel a long distance, and that too, in an enemy's country, where they are liable to lose their horses, the only wealth they possess. They informed me that they lost sixty head last winter. I would most earnestly recommend that some proviaion he made for them in the future. LUTHER XANN, JR., United States Indian Agent. Hon. F. H. HEAD, Sxperintendent Indian Afairs, Salt Lake City, U. T. NEW JIESICO SUPERINTENDENCY. No. 49. OFFICE SUPERINTENIDXEDNTIAA FFNAIR S: Santa Fd, New &Ia%co, Augwt 24, 1867. SIR : I n obedience to the reqnirements of the department, I have the honor to submit this ae my second annual report. My last annual report, made up by actual observation and inspection of the various tribes of Indiana within my superintendency, and-upon which I spent much time and labor, met with such poor favor at the hands of your ~redecessor, that I feel little encourwement or inclination in my pn:=cnt at& of bealth to spend much tinrt.and]abor upon this, althongh that report contained my views and those of a great majority of |