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Show REPORT OF THE COMMISSIONER OF INDIAN AFFAIRB. 27 tribes, number about six thousand. The agency provided nuder the late treatr, to which reference has been made, js situated on Teton River, serenty-five miles from Fort Benton. Dissatrsfaction exists among them on account of the nou-fulfillment of the treaty. They cannot un-derstand xhy it was not ratified, and complain bitterly of their treat-ment in this regard. A willingutxs is manifested by them to locate near the new agency, and live on farms, if they can be satisfied that agricultural iwplements, seeds,,animals, and subsistence will be sup-plied. Because of their disappointment, and the killing of some of their people bs citizens of Fort Benton in retaliation for the murder by some Indians in July last of two white herders, there is reason to fear that either hostilities may be commenced by aportion of these tribes, or their managementi so as to keep them peaceable, will be found exceedingly difficult. It is said old British traders and half-breeds have been en-deavorine to excite the Blackfeet to war arrainst the government. Ban-anrha, ~/;"xhonrx, uad Shwp Entrvh., nun~beEinn~ho ut h v n hl~utlredc, l~~im 6olne of the rieheut portions of the Tt.vritor,y, iucludiug Virginia City ;i11(1o ther uoiuts. Thevarr l e n r ~ ~ ~ e r ~l,t.t ~indrvt loli. e .e ut iiud IO.. TR. I.Y-C .~S ~ ~ o obru,t, &illiig to wo;k, a1141; 'xpre'sa desire to live on the rc.servrctioo of the Mor~ntaiuC rows, with rrl~c,m rhcy aro friendly. Slrperiotendeut General Sullv is of the oninion that the< should be removed to the Fort Hall reservahon in ~dabo. By the treaty concluded with them on the 24th of September, 1869, a reservation of two townships on the north fork of the Salmon River, in Idaho, is provided for the& use,,but as the treaty is yet pending before the Unlted States Senate, noth~ugc an be done to establish them upon it. DAKOTA. In regard to the condition of Indian affair8 in this Teiritory by the joint adn~iuistrationo f civil and military anthonties, the superintend-ent reports that the salutary effects of the policy are plainly seen, and the evidence of its workings apparent in the almost perfect subordina-tion of the tribes, md in the efficient action and prompt obedience of the agents and employds. Ponca Agmy is represented to be in a fair condition. The Poncas, numbering 768, located upon a reservation in Dakota, north of the Nio-b r a~a hR iver. near its confluence with the Missouri. are a n.e~wa ble ~ peol~l~r.,e ~ l ~ n i obni ~t.l~&~ reservntiou, null dispuseci to :~gr ier r l t~iu~ n~ itti hiftlpIc l i ~ r u ~isu, whicl~t lrqv Jnrer with f;~isrr rrccss. T11r.y h:lve five hundnrd and twenty-right acre* ill cors, whicl~w ill l~ndurua good crop, un1t.s it be damaged by the gm~ ~ h o p ~ ~ cTrhsei.r whool, discontinr~e~l last Jullc for want of t'unils, slroul(l l ~ epu t i l l operelion again, as it has proved ot'gna:~tb enetit to thihm. IJor this purpose :in annual a1,propri. arior~fo v ir of'%2,5OOi fl reeomlueudeil. A,~ricolteni~~lr rplemeutnh, orses, anil tkucing art, rnnt.11 ~lrmded to illace thtm ill f'avorabln cire~~~us~au~~m. Pankton Agency is located uDon the reservation for the Yankton Sioux, on the east bank of the Missouri River, a short distance above the mouth of the Niobrarah. The Indians number near 2,500, and have under cultivation about twelve hundred acres. In consequence of the failure of their crops for the past two years, they hare suffered very much, and but for the timely arrival of supplies furnished by General Harnev serious difficulties with them would doi~btless have ariaeu. They Lare in a great me;teurc nbnudoned the chnar nud 11r-coltre tillers ol'tlre soil, a~ld ;ire in the possrssiou of marl1 uf thr t!om-fons of life. The 8uperiutnudeut recon~meuilsa resurvey of rbeir reser. |