Annual Report of the Commissioner of Indian Affairs - 1872

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REPORT OF THE COMMISSIONER OF INDIAN AFFAIRS. 73 of these efforts among t,he Indians of North America, and it mar fairly be said that allnost the only enterprises of this kind which hare secured a permanent footing are those which preceded the Government coutrol of the Indians, and which had founded themselves ou the co~~fideucane d sympathies of the natives too strongly to be shaken by official hostility or neglect.. While, however, the importance of securing harmony of feeling and concert of action between the agents of the Government and the mis-sionaries at the several agencies, in the matter of the moral and reli-. gious advancement of the Indians,was the single reason forrnally given for placing the nominations to Indian age~lcies in the ha,nds of the denominational societies, it is, perhaps, not improper to say that. the Execntire was also influenced by the consideration that the general character of the Indian service might be distinctly improved bj,taking the nomination to the office of agent out of the domain of p o l i t~can~d l~lacing it where no motives but those of disinterested be~~evolence could be presumed to prevail. The following schedule exhibits the present apportionment of Indian agencies among the several religions associations and missio~lary socie-ties. The figures refer to the number of Indians embraced in the sev-eral agencieti : niends, (Hicksite,) the Xorthcrn nuperinter~dency and the agencies therein, viz: Great Nemaha, 313; Owalla, 969; Wiunebago, 1,440; Pawnee, 2,447; Otoe, 464; and Santee Sioux, 965; all located within the State of Nebraska.. Eriends, (Orthodox,) the Central superintendency and the agencies therein, ria : Pottamatomie, 400 ; Kaw, 290 ; Kickapoo, 598 ; all locat,ed in Kansas; and Quapaw, 1,070; Osage, 4,000; Sac and POX, 463; Shawnee, 663; Wichit.a, 1,250; Kiowa, 5,490 ; and Upper Arkansas, 3,500; all located in the Indian Territory. Baptist, the OBrrokee, 18,000; Creek, 12,300, in the Indian Territory ; Walker River,. 6.,00 0.; and Pi.Ute, 2,.5 0P,. i l l Nevada; and Special, 3,000, in Utah. Predbyterian, the Choctaw, 16,000; and Seminoles, 2,398, in the Indian Territorj; Abiquiu or Tierra Amarilla, 1,920; Na.va,jo, 9,114; Mesca-lero Apache, 830; 'Pularosa, or Southern Apache, 1,200, in New Mexico Territory; Moquis Pueblo, 3.000, in Arizona Territory ; Nee PercB, 2,807, in Idaho Territory; and Uintah Valley, 800, in Utah Territory. Chriutia7b, the Poeblo, 7,683, in New Mexlco; Nceah Bay, 604, in Washineton Territorr. ~ethozist~, o o ~ a ~ ~ a .7l2l5e ;y R, o und Valley, 1,700 ; and Tule River, 374, in California ; Yakama, 3,000 ; Skokomish, 919 ; Qoioaielt, 5'20, in Washington Territory; Warm Springs, 6?G; Siletz, 2,500; and Kla-math, 4,0UO, in Oregon ; Blackfeet, 7,500 ; Crow, 2,700 ; and Mllli River, 19,565, in Montana Territory; Fort Hall, 1,037, in Idaho Territory; and Michigan, 9,117, in Michigan. Catholic, Tulalip, 3,600 ; and Colville, 3,349, in Washington Territory; Grand Itonde, 870; Umatilla., 837, in Oregon; Flatbead, 1,780. ill Mon-tana Territory ; Grand River, 6,700 ; and Devil's Lake, 720, iu Dakota Territory. Reformed Dutch, Colorado River, 828 ; Pima and IIaricopa, 4,342 ; Camp Graut, 900; Camp Verde, 748 ; and White Mountain, or Camp Apache, 1,300, in Arizona Territory. Congrega,tionalJ Green Ba.y, 2,871; and Chippewas of Lalre Superior, 5,150, in Wiacousm; and Chippewas of the Mississippi, 6,455, iu Min-nesota.