Annual Report of the Commissioner of Indian Affairs - 1873

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62 REPORT OF COM3nSSIONEE OF INDIAN AFFAIRS. idate all thew Indians, namely the Indians slredy.qn the Mslheor Reservation, the sn.oUected tribes in Western bevada and Northeastern California, and the Indiw who belon to the WalkerRiver wd Pyramid Lake reservations. The tot*? number of such Indians would beabout 2,300. RECAPITULATION. The tribes wllose condition haa been thus bri?fly diaoossed, and for whose disposi-tioqreoommen~ lationsh eve been made, are sosttored over a great extent of territory, embracing rhe greater psrt of the region between the Rocky Mountains and the Sierras. The boundaries of t h i r~eg ion may be indicated in a general way as fallows : Beginning on the north line of Oregon where that line erassea the Sierras, and con-tinuing south along the cress of this nnge of mountains to Walke.lker's Pasa in Southern California, and from thenae east to the s sou the art corner of Nevada; and from thence llortheilst to the point where Ssn Ju=n River omS8e8 the northern line of Arieona; and from thence east dong this line to the southeast corner of Utah; and from theooe north along theeastern line of Utah and beyond the line of. Utah to the Wind River Mountains ; and from thence in a northweeterly direction along'the WindRiver Monn-tains and the mountains which separate Montma from Idaho to a point directly east of the northern line of Oregon, and from that point to the lace of baoinniug. The , region of country thus described embraces the greater part ofldaho, nea& two-thirds of Oregon, nearly onefourth of California, the entire Stste of Nevada, and the Terri-tory of Utah, one-fifth of Arieona, rand one-sixth of Wyoming, and contains eboat 410,000 square miles. Within the territory thna deecribed there are tvo small rresevatians, of which no mention has been made in this report, an the eastern slope of. tho Sierraa in Oregon. The Indians who belong to these reservations originally oaoupied the country weat of the Sierrw, snd do not belong to the great family of tribes we have been disouasing. The'Shashanes'&nd:,Bannooks, of the Wind River Reservation are without the bound-aries of the country described, but they belona to the same faLily oftribes. The same is true with regmi to the tribes o? Utes rrhioh belong to the great ressrva-tjon in Westen, Colorado; and the Comanches of Texas are also a branoh of this pea-ple. The Indians who inhabit this great district of couutry are estimated to number nearly 27,000, inthe last annual report of the Borean of Indim Aftairs. The facts ?hioh me have collected show that there are not more than 9,359 ; and adding to this 300 Cbem-a-hue-vie, belonging to the ame race that live to the south of the district deaorihed, we have 9,ffiY. It ia proposed to collect all thePai-Utes of Sonthern Nevada, SoutheastemCalifornia, Northwestern Arizona, and Southern Utsh, together with the Chem-a-hue-?is of South-eastern California, on the Mot-a-pa reservation, in Southern Nevada. The total num-ber of these Indims is2,327. It is proposed to collect the Utea of Utah, the Pah-vents of Utah, an$ the Go-si Wes .of Utah and Northeartern Nevada on the Uintah reservation. The total number of thew Indims is 1,150. It is proposd to collect the Bannocks and ShosLones at Fort Hall; tbe Sho-shone tribes of Salmon River, the Northwestern Shoshones of Sonthern Ideho and Northern Utah, sod the Westarn Shoshones of Central Nevada, Sontitwestern Idaho, and Southenst.ern Or-, on the reearvation at Fort Hall. The total number of these Indians is 3,882. It, is proposed to colleot the Pah-Utes, Shoshones. &.&, who are a3ready on the YaIhenr reservation, thepah-Utea or Pa-vi-0'-baa, who arenow on the rewrvation at Pyramid Lake and Walker River, md the unoollected tribea qf Western Nevada and Northeastern California on the reservation at Malheur River. The total number of these Indians is 2,300. On the aooanlpanying map, being a part of the map of theunited Statea Terri-tories compiled in the General Land-Office the sever4 dietncts of country Inhabited by the tribea included in this report lsre i&lioated by oolors numbered to correspond with a tabular statement. The Indians inhabiting the districts colored with oarmine are Pei-Utes, aud the reservation recommended for them is of the same color, b o r d d with black. The brown eolors indicate the tribes which should be collected at the Uintbh reservat,ion. , This reservation is also colored brown, bordered aith blaok. The yellow colors indicate tribes wbich shvnld go to the Fort Hall reservation, WW is also oolored yellow, bordered with black. The Indians that should be oolleoted at the Malhlheur reservation inhabit tbe region of eonotry included within green lines, and the Malheur raservstion is colored green, with black border. Embraced within the boundaries of the fonr rererv%t,iooo there are about h thou-mndsquare miles of lwd. Only a smdl portion of this land. ia fit for agricultnral . purposes, mnch of it baing aandy desmt and mountain witete. The diatrict of country relieved of the presence of the Indians is a b u t foul hnn-dred and ten thousnod square milcs.