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Show -- - INFORMATION, HISTORICAL AND STATISTICA4, ,,- I the lewdness among Indian wonben pravtiscd by the solcliers stationed 1 at Fort V'iugate, wlth the knowlodgeof their otticcrs, fiir~~ias hre cord of borl~ings hnnie to t l~c\v l~oleA nierican )~eoplc. NESPEELUXS AND SAN POELS. They are confederated tribes, numbering 500, who reside in the north-ern part of washing tor^ Territory, and belong to the Colville agency, / but have made no treaty mith the Government, and refuse to acknowl-edge its authority even by accepting presents or favor. They will be I spoken of hereafter in con~lectioum ith the S m P oels. NEZ PERC~S. Of the 2,800 Nez Perces, nearly half, located on the Eamiah and Lap wai reservations in Northern Idaho. and a few others settled 011 lands outside the reserve, are prosperous farmers and stock-growers. The rest are " non-treaties," who, with other non-treaty Indians in that region, make every exertion to induce the reservation Indians to leave their farms and join them in annual hunting and root-gathering expeditions. . ' The settlements made in the Wallowa Valley, which has for years been the past.nre-ground of the large herds of horses owned by Joseph's band of the "non-treaties," will occasion more or less trouble betreen this band and the whites until Josephis iuduced or compelledto settleupon his reserrat,ion. The prosperous condition of those cf the NezPerc6s whoare upon there-serve was fully set forth in my last report. That 110 special advancement I bas been madeduring the year is largely due to the distraction caused by the attempt of Langford to fake forcible possession of the section of land embracing the sites of most of the agency buildings, claimed by him under purchase. The nature of this claim was fully set forth in my last report. Uuder the decision of the Attorney-Geueral that Laugford's title to these lands was not valid, military aid was procured, by which he was ejected from the reservation and the buildings and lands again turned over to t,he charge of the agent to be put to their intended use NISQUALLIES. The 150 Fisquallies on the Nisqually reserve, near Puget Soun11, are in much the same condition as the Muckleshoots. OICANAGANS. They number 330, .and are on the Colville rtserv:ttion, in Washington Territory. 'A few have made a feeble attempt at farming, but the land is poor, and their chief dependence must be on fishing, hunting, and root-gathering. No genuine effort hasever been made to raise them out of barbarism. OXAHAS. 1z.e 1,005 Omahas near the Missouri River, in Easteru,Nebraslra, are in the same thrifty, prosperons condition as reported last year. They have giveu up the hunt and are settled upon allot~nentso f laud, on the cultivation of which, without any compensation from the Government, they depend for their entire subsistence. Last year they sold 10,000 bushels of corn and several hrindred bushels of wheat, potatoes, aud beans. This year the crop, though |