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Show I REPORT OF 'IRE COMLJISSIONER OF INDIAN AFFAIRS. 7 the plan of locating these 111dians upon the Eau Plaine River, in the northwestern i~a rotf tile State, where there are bot few whites. If this were l , ~ ~ ~ l i ~i:t ~IViOdI I Ir~,I l ~ c ~ l ~Lw: l~~el t~tilsvt o .-a e<t :~l~l iIIsIClI~II I ~ I : I I I to remove t b r ~ !il~g: ti~lslr lceir \risl~~.s-tl~pr~ ubal~i l ibttj~ illg t11;1r some wo111d e~31lteil e etYorts of the I l q c ~ r t ~ ~to~ vet!~i11ict!v e I I I ~ I I I 3. 1111 ~~t l~e r s ! after being rr~no\.erlr, ro~~l<dl oabtl~zfisn d rhrir \\;I?b. ;~cl;: I ~ : I ~ I I . Tlro ralions l u d i n~tr~ib es in tlic 11ldi;11T1.l r~itor,vW ~ C ( ~rl,l r [vtst SIIIII- 111er. noritied. t h r o .u ~ lt~l~ tl.) ronrhvs u ~ ~ ~ r i ~ ~ toef u11d1deii~11~i1f erh irs. f111t ~ . . coligress 113(mi at~e3 11 iil)prol)ri:~tiotro pay tile expense3 of the g d ~ ~ e r a ~ cour~cil~ ,rovidc(flo r io tlw r re:~ti~.wc,i t11 the Cherokee a1111o rlltr rriI,es, eonelnd~din 1866. Representatives of sere~>tarli bes accordingly met a t Ockmulgee, in the Creek country, in the latter part of September last; bnt as &ll the tribes were not represented, an adjournment until the 5th of December next was agreed upon. The action of the council, so far as any policy is indicated by its proceedings, augurs veT favorable re-sults. Rcsolutions mere passed advising the Ohe.yennes, Arapahoes, Kiowas, Comanches, and other nomadic tribes in the Territory, to en-tertain the most friendly relations to the people of the United States, and inviting them to send delegates to be present at and participate in the proceedings of t.he adjourned council in December. Too much im-portance cannot be given to the consideration of a measure which promises to be of incalculable benefit to them and their posterity. Should the council be conducted on the principles contemplated in the treaties of 1866, it cannot but contribute to the advancement, in all that con-stitut~ t<ap rosl)erous i~udII :I~]I?. peol'le? of all rhr tril~cui otv i~~l~nl~i r ing tile 111din1T1r nitory, an11 III: puteltt 111 its il~flue~lrurls80 11t ri11c.a i l l more r t . n~~stuet .tio~~osi oar cooutrs. Our ilnr~ortatr~t esultn iill l)c, 1l1ee srah-lishment of more intimate reiations with each other. the recormition of the l)~,udxo f a c o ~ ~ ~ tlu~onl,t~l~ t~rl~n~rot~oplt cl,v l~:~p;Is ror~li.(ler;~rio\u~ hii:h I will be tnnr:l!llonnt to nl~rll )r ncl:c~~tlr)~y l( 'ul~gresas s n 1~1.rituriigtlo v. . - - e.rnment for t,he Indian Territory. A small appropriation vas made at the last session of Congress for the return of theheiekayoo and other stray bands of Indians, now living in the republic of Mexico, not far from the southwestern frontier of Texas, to their former homes in the United States. The Depastment will take such steps as may be deemed most practicable for their early return. and when this sball have beeu accon~nlished there mill be re- ~ ~ 111over1R I I evil of rrhi~.bl l ~ ec i t izr~0~1' s Tex;~sli vil~g01 1 flit Kio C:rnndc frontier hiivv $0 Ioug i1111l j11s1IyC O J I I ~ ~ ~ ~ I ~lI'iI~Cr1~1. . 11t l1~~ 1e1 1ests ~lirablc I~ometb r these 111tii;111c:sl n be fhurld iu nllttt is lir#i~~valsr rltc -l.e:r.;e~l ~istrict," west of the Chieknsaw country, from about which section most of them emigrated to Mexico more than twenty years ago. It will be necessary, upon their being esta1)lishecl in a nev home, for Congress to make provisiou for their support until they ca.11 be pnt iu the may of sustaining themselves. No appreelable progress has been made io taming or col~ciliatingth e wild and warlike Apaches of Arizona. Their thirst forrapine and blood seems unquenchable and unconquerable. It is claimed by persons who doubtless are cognizant of the fact. tbat the Roman Catholic clersv are 1 the only class of-men they will not molest and to whose connse1s"alone they will listen. If this be true, it is certainly n7erthv of consideration ) whether the encouragement of the government shonid not be given to the clergy of that faith, wl~o may be disposed to befriend this people, 1 to enter upon the morli and nse their best endea~orsto subdue the un-tamed and warlike nature of these Apaches, and to induce them to 1 abandon their roving and predatory habititq to settle down in some in- |
