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Show INDIAN DELEGATIONS VISITING WASHINGTON DURING THE YEAR Several nnusuallrlarge and important Indian delegations have vjsite.d Washington during the past year. The tribes represented and t.heper-son& of the delegations may be characterized as follows: (a) Tlie Red Cloud or Ogalallnla Sioaz.-This delegation consisted af thirty Indians. The chiefs were Red Cloud and Red Dog, (their second risit to lITashington,) Little Wound, Red Leaf, and Blue Horse. Tlie ostensible object of the visit of the delegation was to affect, without the use of force, the removal of the Red Cloud agency from its teniporary location on the North PlatteRiver to some poiut within theGreat Sioux reservation. The opposition of Red Cloud and his people to this re-moral has its root,not in any preference for the present location, rrliich is indeed uninviting and inconvenient, bat in the fear that their retire-ment from the Platte will be in effect, at least in the result, the sor-render of the left bank of that stream, to which these Indians cling ' with the greatest determination. The Department in inviting the dele-gation mas, howerer, more particularly infloenced by the desire to im-press the Ogallalas with a sense of the power of the Gover~~menint, view of the approach of the Northern Pacific Railroad to the rich hunting-grounds of these Indians upan the Powder Rirer. The Red Cloud Sioux form the nearest and most natural re-enforcement, in case of war to the 66 hostile camps" of the Upper Missouri. The<Tisit of the delegation, though it has neither resulted in the re-moval of the agency this fall, nor pre.rent!d a great deal of insolence and some yiolence on the part of these Indians, botl! at the agency and toward the surveying parties of the Northern Paclfic Railroad, is be.- lievecl to have had a real and considerable effect, both in the way of making progress toward the acooml)lishment of the wish of the Depart-ment in the former direction, and in restraining t.his large and warlike band from joining in the attacks on the military expeditions to the head-waters of the Iellowstone. A score or two of young braves are believed to constitute all there-enforcement receired by Spotted Eagle and <'The Gall," the chiefs who are understood to have led the night at,tncks on Ma,jor Baker and Colonel Stanley, out of the camps of the Ogalltllas. (b) Spotted Tail's ba.nd of BrulB Siow.-This delegation consisted of twenty Indians. The chiefs were Spotted Tail, Two-Strike, Swift Bear, and Iron-Shell. The object of inviting this delegation was to arrange amicably for the removal of the so-called "Whetstone" agency fmm the head-waters of the White River to the forks of that river, near its jnnc-tion mith the Missouri, and also to confirm the friendship of the Brut6 Sioux toward the Government in view of the disaffect.!on of the Opal-lalas, and the possibility of an earlj collision. The r i s ~its reported as having been in a high degree successful. The fi~diansg ave a cordial assent to the wishes of the Deuartment in reswct to the remoral of the had pre%o~~smlya nifested great repngnance, and shown none but the best disposition toward the Gorernment. (o) Indians of Arizona.-The visit of this delegation resulted from the mission of General Howard to that Territory in April and &Pay of |
