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Show 6 REPORT OF THE COMJIISSIONER OF INDIAN AFFAIRS. lying !rest of the 100th meridian atlil north of the south divide ofthe i o r r a R e . Good fairh with the Indians will therefore make it necessar.y to lay this matter before Congress and ask for at1 nppropria-tion in the snul of $23;000. THE SIOPS I'EOBLE31. For a full <liscnssiou of the question of the future of the Sions, atten-tion is resl)ectti~llyin r,itecl to my litst ;lntloaI report, page 0. I t atforils me no sn~allg ratification to fill11 t l ~ eob ser\'ations ant1 eon-clusior~ sre ached a t that t,uue npou this subject fully confirmed by tbe report of the Red Cloud iurestigating oo~n~nissionaf, ter many weeks spent in the Sious country-in careful inqniry into the condition and prospects of these lodiails. The problem for these. people has not apDroached a solutiou during the year, unless it shall lle found that the discussio~a~r ising fro111 the Black h'ills excitemeut and the inwstiga-tion at Recl Cloud agency have so nmnkenetl the put~lic attention to the preseut necessities ;ind pitiable condition of tlle Sionx as to lend to immediate, appropriate, and vigorons measures for their relief, b , r~em or-iog the Indians at the I:ed Oloud aud Spntted Tail Agencies to the JIissonri Biver, by driving out t l~os qua\r-men who infi?st the 111dian country, and by compelli~~lga l~ora s a return for mtions. These three essential nu<lertakings \rill require for success three things : (1) Largely increaseci appropri;?tious for the Sioux during the next two Tears, n.llich may tberealtrr be steadily clin~i~~isliteildl t l~eyc euse altogether; (2) tho most cnicient and bearty co-operntion of t,l~e,W;D~er partment; (33 in order to atford n suitable location for Red Clond and his people, the remornl of tho Po~icasfi om tl~eirl~ rvxentr eservation, whicii is a part of their Sionx eouotrr, and their consolitlation nit11 the Omahns in Sa- I)mska. Sooner or later tl~eseo r utbcr ra~licnli neasnres most be adontetl. the only alteruutire being to co~~t iontoe ratio11 and clothe the 1Ci1ili;sds as ~ d l ean d insoleilt ragmnts n ~ ~pialu pers. I do not believe it possible to subsist the Sioos Inany ,years lo~igeru pon t l ~ ea ppropriatious mhiel~ Congress can bc induced to malcefor f e r d i ~ ~pugr poses ouly. The whole sl~iriot f 011s people aud of American i~~st.itut.io~r!es volts against auy process that ttluds to panperism or taxatiou for the support of idlers. Tile bril~gingo f tlwse wild Sioux nnder such wl~olesomer estraint ~ o u l t l also be of a tuateri:~la id to t l ~ ep rocess of civilizatinl~n ow progressing among other b:inds of the nation aloug the 31issonri Sirer, opou w1io111 it has as yet beeu iu~possibleto euforce lxoper discipline in the require- ~neuotf labor lor rations, beeaose of the proximity and erample of lled Jood and Spottetl Tail ageucies. Bnt the reports of ageucies nlong tlre river: wit11 t l~np ossil~lee sceptio~l of St:uilling Roclr, shotv thet it is entirely feasible to oirilize tho Sionx, prorided a soitable co~ultryc nu 'be fol111d for their occupation rmd the Gorerumeut ail\ its agents are capable of cootiuuance iu well-doing. At Cheyenne River, b:tnds of 8ioox who three ycars ago mere as iutract-allle, as i~npatie~oift labor, and in other rt?spects as fbr f?orn the first stepsoof civilizatiou as Sl)ottc?ll Tail's immediate follolrers are to-day, bare bceu induced to erect log l~onsesa nd ope11f arms to such at1 extent that the agency is able to report 240 111diar1fa milies living in hooses, 240 male Iuilinus who labor iu cirilieed pdrsuits wiLh their own bauds, :?nil 138 (:liilclren in sr:hool. ~~~~ The report of the Cr0.w Creek agent, as nu account of a first success- Cul gear's eifitrt in civilization, is equally encoort~ging. The reports of |