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Show REPORT OF COMMISSIONER OF INDIAN AFFAIRS. 45' go thore. Fromthe information which your oo~nmissiouersh ave received i t is bclieved that i t will be necessary to remove the Pah-Utes or Pe-vi-o-tsoes from the Walker Rirer and Pyran~idL ake reserrdious to some better point,, as the raaonrcea of the territory they now aooup~a re inadequate to their want. The United States Indian agent, in charge of the reservatioo at Fort Rall, informs your commission that he believes that tho Indians now at that plaoe would raise no serious objection to the removal of tho oooollectod Shoshones to that place. The rights and obligations of the Indiana under aouaidoratiou havo been thus care-fully egamined that no uojubt oause of oompI8.int might arise. With regard to the fourth question, "What division of the roaming tribes do their linguistic and other affinities indicato9" muoh has yet to be learned. The names by which the tribes are known to white man and tho Department give no clue to the relationship of the indieos; for example, the Iudisns in the vioinity of the reservation on the Moddg and the Indiaus on the Walker River and Pyramid Lake , raservations are called Pai or Pah Utes, but the Indians know only those on the Muddy by that name, while those on the other two reserv?t~ons me known as P*vi-o-tsoes, aud speak 8. very different language, hot closely alllad to, if not ldeutieal with, that of the Bannooks. The Indians of Utah and Nevada, known ss Shoshaneslry the whites, are known by very different names by the Indians. The two tribesmentioned above, Pah-vnnts and Seuv-a-rite., ?peek the srsmelznguage, end are intermantied aith the Indiana on the Uint:~h reservatxons, and should be ta,ken there. The Go-si Utes speak a, langoage more uearly like that of the Indians at Fort Hall, but they are intermarried and affiliate with tho Indians at theUiutah reservation, end it is believed they would prefer to o there also. The tribes of Pai-Utes, mentionefiu the former part, ahoold be taken to the M,uddy. Of the Western Shoshones, Northwestern Shoshones, Pa-ri-o-tapes, and Washaes, sufficient is not yet known to rctnoh a couo1,lsion on this matter. Whenever theso Indians are gothored on reservations it will be necessary to mrske provision far their subsistence, ulrtil such time as tho^ osu take care of themselves, as it would be impolisible for them to liveupon tho native protluots found on the reserva tions. ' To take them there and have them soatter again would he to put them ins, condition worse than they are now in, and it wanld probably be morc rlittieult to indue* them to return. The appropriations made by the last Congreas for the support of the present reser- , vations, to which these people should be taken, are entil.ely iusutticieut for tbe support , of the Indians who are already on them, and they are compclled to leave their reserva-tions during a part of the year to obtain a living. Under these circumstances, your commissioners did not deem that it vould be wise to remove any of the Indiana at present, and they aubmit this statement of the con&- tion of affairs for your consideration. |