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Show June last some of the Cheyennes and Arapahoes attacked citizens of Kanw settled upon the Republican, Smoky KIU, and Saline Rivers, killing a number of men women, and children, capturing others, and destroying or carrying ok considerable property. The love of plunder and the spirit of revenge seem not to have been subdued in many of the Indians of these tribes by the chastisement they received heretofore, nor by the magnanimity of the government in promising to provide for and treat them as friendly if they would go upon their reservations. Active and severe measures by the military against them have resulted in the destruction of many, and compelled others either to surrender or come in and ask to be located upon a reservation with those of their people who are peaceably disposed. The discontented of the various bands of Sioux have also shown a determined spirit of antagonism to the government, in acts of occasional murder and depredations in Da-kota and Wyoming Territories, but the main body of the Sioux who, under General Haruey, were loeated on the great reservation provided for them by treaty stipulations, are comparatively quiet, and it is thought can be kept so, as well as induced to change their mode of life. In Montana a part of the Piegans have been on the war path, and ap- . prehension8 have been entertained of serious troubles; murders ' of citizens have been committed by other Indians, and citizens have retaliated, but the danger of a serious outbreak, it is believed, is past. Wlth the wild and intractable Apaches, in Arizona, ,there I seems to be a continual state of warfare and outrage which the mhtary arm in use there is unable to wholly suppress, and this will be the case ~ always, until these Indians can be induced to leave their almost inac-cessible retreats and settle upon a reservation. Members of the Kiowas , and Comanches have beeu renewine their attacks uDon citizens of Texas aud their propert,y, but no extrusiv;? raiding by th; trihrri, as in fnr~l~er gears, bas occ~lrrcdd uring the p;ta sear, nor Laye othrr ~ I ~ \ JhPa.dY : la much' cause for comolaiiit akinst thbe bands as heretofore. The Apaches :i11d ~ a v a j o i sha 17t2 $SO beeu charged with ollrrages agahst citizens oi Ke\v hlexico, H I I ~SO tronblesorne lievr il~eyb een tkat the .e. overnor of the Territorv deemed it his dutv to issue a nroclamation de- <:laringt he Kavajoes onilnws, :%ud: i ~l thur i r~thne~ p ropie to deti:nd their person$ and proprrty agtiinst their attacks. Artention ia a%iu called to the inmurti~nceo f snmr thio~h cinc d011e to put a srop to ijtc rai,lin# illto T&S I J K~ i rkal~ooa ucl "iher 1;leliand residing iu the rt.p~~bliocf hlcxico, not tar i~omt he Rio Graude, as iie-rious difficultieu illas :lrise \vitli that nation. should the citizens i,f Tvxas. suffering beyond firther endurance at the hands of these marauders; undertake to redress their grievances by invading the territory of that republic in pursuit of the offeuders. Although the Kickapoos may be regarded as having forfeited their claim to the protection of the United States, and their rights to the home they abandoned in the Indian coun-try, yet, in view of their desire to return, as well as for the welfare ofthe people on the border of Texas, it is thought that steps should be taken as early as practicable to have them brought back and placed some-where in the Indian territory. For this purpose Congress was asked last Sear to legislate and provide the necessary means. By the treaties of 1866 vith the Cherokees, Choctaws, Chickasaws, Creeks, and Seminoles, it is agreed on their part, if Congress shall so pro-vide. that there shall be orcaniee- da eeneral council in the Indian terri- ~~ -~ ~ ~- tor,~t;o he compu*ed of delFgates liom tile various tribes, and convened a~~r~u awl li.th~ ,p ower lo legiilate npon a11 sol!it:vts prrtni~~intog t he inter. course and relations of the h~diausresidentil l the Indian ternwry, and |
