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Show REPORT OF THE CONfiIISSIONER OF ISDIAN AFFAIRS. DEPARTMENOTF THE INTERIOR, OFFICE OF INDIAANFF AIRS, Wmhinglon, D. C., November 1, 1874. SIR: I have the honor to submit herewith my annual report, acc'orn. nauied b~ the rcnorts of the superintmdeots and agents ot' t l ~ eIu diau gain in all mat.e~:i,pl rdsperitS, increased iuterest in and facilities ibr education, and a grol~ing general disposition of good will toward t.he Government. I helieve that no year in the history of Indian relations with the Gorern~nerh~at s witnessed sucB a marked genersl movement toward the civilization of the Indian. For three years the appliames of civilization have been bronght to bear with increasing force upon the red men of t l~eco untry, and the results produced are gratifyiug and rr~osth opeful for the future. At twenty-one agencies, Indians who at the heginning of this period made no etfort aud showed no iualination toward labor or selflau.u.u ort,. or edneatio~if or their ehil~lrena, twn now to Ilt~ves ettled illto : I ~ Ie wurst plrrposu to :idopt a rivilizcld u~odr of liir, ;u~d to lear~i to vrovide fur themselves. - For conve~lieuceo f reference and remark, the Indians of the country may be classified nuder three heads: First. Tl~osat hat are wild and scarcely tractable to any extent beyond that of coming near euough to the Govern~neuat gent to receive rations and blankets. Secoud. Indians who are thoronghly convincetl of the uecessity of labor, and are actually undertaking it, and with Illore or less readiness accept the direction and assistance oE Government agents to this cud. Third. Indims who have come into possession of allotted lauds hnd other property in stock and i~nplementsb elongi~~tog a laucled estate. A CENSUS OF TEE TRIBES BY OLASSES. In the first class are ennmerated 98,108, wl~om ap be catalogned as fol-lows: 46,663 out of al~oo5t 3,000 Sioux ; 420 Mandans ; 1,620 Gros Ven. tres; 4,200 Urows; 5,450 Blackfeet, Bloods, and Piegdns; 6,153 Ute8 in Colorado and New Mexico; 9,057 Apacl~es iu New Mexico and Ari-zona; 2,000 Navajoes in New Mexico; 4,975 Kiowas and Coma~rchesi n Iudian Territory; 6,318 Cheyennes and Arapahoes i11 Indian Terrilorr, Wyoming, aud Uakot,a; 5,352 Ohippewas inMinnesota, Wiscoosin, and Michigan ; 300 Nez PercOs in Idaho; 1,600 Slloshones and Bauuacks in Wyoming; 1,000 Shouhoues and Bauuacks in Oregon. |