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Show 4 REPORT OF THE COXMISSIONER OF INDIAN AFFAIRS. The second class, to the number ofi 52,113, is snma~ed as follows: 5,769 Chippewas and Menomonees inMir~nesotaa nd Wisconsin, 338 Sac aucl Fox in Iowa, 4,G22 Sioux,730 Poncas,alld975 Arickarees in Dakota; 3,289 Pawnees, Omahas, Otoes, and Sac and Fox in Nebraska; 1,829 %I;~tl~eaiinls M ontana; 2,700 mixed Shoshones, Banuacks, and Sheep- E;~terisll Idtiho and Wyouriag; 1,200 Nee Perebs in Idaho ; 365 Kick-apoos, 365 Eaws, 345 Comanches, and 2,372 Osages ill the ludiau Ter-ritorx ; 1,200 Pai Utes on reservatio~~ins Nevada; 575 Utes in Utah ; 1,900 Xojaves, Chemehneris, and Eanala,pais in Arizona; 9,068 Navajos in New Mexico, and 15,056 among the different. tribes in Washington Territory, Oregoa, and California. The third class, numbering 100,085, include&5 ,140 Se~~e caansd other Indians in New Yorlr. 11.774 Cl~i~)aewiarnsd other Indians in Michiean. Creeks, 6,000 ~hick~warv2s,,4 38 Se$inoles, r7,517 bherokees, an& 4;141 belonging to smaller balldv in the Iudian Territory; 1,000 Eastern Cherokees in Xortll Carolina: 1,307 Nex Percbs in Idaho; 5,122 Yaka-was aud others in Washi~~gtoTne rritory, and 10,905 Pueblos in New Mexico and Arizona. Within the third class, modified somewhat, might be included 4.300 Pimas and Maricopas, and 6,000 Paytgoes, it! Arizona, and a majority otthe 5,000 Mission Indians in California, all of whom were once citi-zens under the .Mexican goverument, audakl receiving no gorer~~me~ital aid beyond the care of an agent and a s~naldl isbursement for educa-tional purposes; snd if at any time during the last geueratiou it hat1 bee11 possible for them to have received suitable lands in severalty, they wo111d now be in as tolerable a coudition of comfort as most of their white neighbors. A fourth class of roamers and vagrants might be enumerated, con-sivting of 600 Wiunebagoes and Pottawatomies in Wisconsin, 250 Sac and Pox in Emwas, known as Mokohoko's band, 6,000 ,Yhosl~onesa, nd otl~erisn California, 2,500 Indians on the Columbi:b River ; 1,945 Wester11 Shoshones in Nevada; 3,221 Utes in Nevada, Utah, Goloraclo, and Ari-zona; 2,420 Yu~uasa nd others in Arizona, and 500 scatteredlndiaus in North Caroliua, Tennessee, Georgia, Florida, and Texas. TEE WILDER TRIBES. Resnectinn the Indians enumerated in the first class. this general srnetient ictroe: A tlecidctl atlv;u~ce1 1ns been ma~leil urihg r h ~ j e i l rin tile dirertiou of securiop control a1111i ~ ~ f l ~o~r rer~ tl~lcscae th e \\,ililc~socf the tribes in the countrj; and the way has opened quite perceptibly for a lpucl~ larger and more hopeful work among them during the colning Sear. They are as yet unreached by missionary vork, and are in their native ptganism, whose sul~ervtitiou ofteu forbids their being counted for e~lrolluienat nd the attendance of their ct~ildreua t school. It is from Indians in this class that auy such host~litiesa re to be apprehended a s hereafter to rennire tlre uresence or use of the military: and, with the exceptio~o~f l~u<siblySC V;II ~ I IOI I SRI I I It i* reu t b t ) u s~~n~o, I~,~ ott! tllese :ire properly (lrsiguated hostile; nud rho bodtiles the~n.irlvrs; ireso sc:lrtered and tlivi8It.81 i l l rli<lnca;indb a1111tsl lst, rxcr[,t u u ~ l c r u x t ~ ~ ~ ~ oprr~ol\.io~. ~ a cation.. or iu circulustances not a t ali to be annrehendad. it is uot urob- ~ ~ ~ ~ . . tible that ;IS I I I ; I I I ~: I$ 500 1n11i;11!1\ ~:~rriowrt?il l c\-cr I I ~ O ~ lI ~I ur~ iistert~at~ l oue yuiut 1Lr a light; aud \vith the couflieti~~iugt err3rs ul' the d.lYereut |