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Show I REPORT OF THE COMMISSIONER OF INDIAN ATFAIRS. 5 the Senate. That bodv advised the ratification. with amendments. of ~~~ ~ those iii:~~iwei t11 the ~;naaatomiea,e on~iet~eratesci~ erain d ~oxe softi le JIissis8ippi, and the Srlrecas, Shawllees, Quapaws, Peori~ls,W eas, lias-kaaki;~~ Pi.; tnkeahaws, Ottuaua, and Wyandotrs. That with the Potta-w. 1to111ieIst as been nititietl; the other8 Xet rc.~a:iinf or the :~ctiono f r l~e Prc8ickmr. thnncceutanee ot'theami~utlmcntubx theIndi ;~nsl i ;~-v bie~e~up but recently received. A treaty was concluded on the 2d day of Maroh last by the Commis-sioner of Indian affairs and the governor of Colorado Territory at Wash-ington, with the Tabequache, Muaohe, Capote, Weminuchee, Pampa, Grand River, and Uintah bauds of Utes or Utahs, the principal feature of which is the placing these bands--some being in Colorado and others in New Mexico-upon a large reservation in Colorado, and the establish-ment of two agencies there; it also provides for them schools, and that they shall be taught in agriculture and the mechanic arts. The Senate has advised the ratification of this treaty with amendments. Information has been received that some of the bands have accepted the amendments, and that it is highly probable all will accept them. On the 27th May ultimo a treaty was entered into by myself, Superin-tendent Murphy, and Agents Boone and Snow with the Osage tribe, in their country, by which the Osages agree to sell about 8,000,000 acres of land in Kausas for $1,600,000 to the Leavenworth, Lawrence, and Gal-veston Railroad Company, and they agree to remove and settle in the Indian oountry southof Kausas. The same commissioners also negotiated a trea.ty on the 1st of June fol-lowing with the Swan Creek and Black River Chippewas, and the Mun-see or Christian Indiaus. Both of these treaties are before the Senate of the Unibd States. A treaty was made by the Commissioner of Indian affairs on the 9th of July last, at Washington, with the Cherokees, as supplementary to, and explanatory of, the treaty concluded with that people on the 19th July, 1866; it haa not yet been acted upon by the Senate. Dunng the past spring, by authority of the President, Special Agent J. W. Cullen was instructed to visit the different tribes in Montana Ter-ritory toeffect such treaty rtrrangements as might be best for the iuterests of the Indians and the citizens of that Territory. Mr. Cullen has recently reached this city, and submitted to this office treaties made by him with the Blood, Piegan, and Blackfeet Indians, Gros Veutres, Missouri River Crows, and the Baunocks and Shoshones. These treatiesproride for the extingmshmeut of the title of the Indians to a lar-ee extent of co~intrv.a nd for their location unon districts of ~ cuuntry suited to their wanii, where ugtbnvies are to b; rstilblitibed ti,; thelu, and where thrs mug receive the bellefits derivable from rhe uuuui-ties stipulated to be paid%hem. It is earnestly hoped that the several treaties with the tribes in Kan-sas, yet before the Senate, may be Gcted upon, and their ratification advised at the next session of that body, in order that the contemplated removal of the IndansJrom Kansas to the Indian country may be speedily effected. I n expectation of the change they thought would take place ere this, many of the Indians felt little or no iuterest in cultivating and improving their lands, and ceased their labors in a great measure. They have also been very much annoyed by the encroachments of the whites> who are but too eager to get, even by unfair means,, possession of thew lands. I renew the recommendation made in a prevlous annual report that the treaty negotiated in 1865, by Superintendent Irish, with nearly all the bauds of Utah Indians in Utah Territory, contemplating I A 2 |