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Show XIV REPORT OF THE COMMISSIONER OF INDIAN AFFAIRS. a s ct~!ployf~o,r for supplies actuslly ft~rr~isl~toe tIlu dinns. The accoullts 11po11e xnlnin:ttion are fo11nr1 to be correct juat, and r r c o ~ ~ ~mp ~ ~ d n tiou is inadi. chat Ireislation be urged ill i~ehnlt'oft he cliti~t~nutws.) ~aor e sucferil~g1 10th ttardkllip and ~ I ! ~ I I R ~ I CbUy prolun=rcl drlay i ~l,~ n i ~ n e ~ l t . The detirieuri~e!r~e :lted 1111ril1gth e .y~arb y i t~i~~l e t jiutla~tl~)r ol~~.iatio~~for the Sioux and A~ a c h e sw ere met bv an6ro1jriatfons bdcolinress a t its last dessio~~,andtol far :IS I call 11ow>u6i&t berc will b< no dhci rnry to be rel~ortrrlf or the ti.<t:al .ve>~eio. tliug .Innu RU, lSX, rxcrpr ilu nol~11111t of 83,1s.4.5.5,I~ri11ga bali~nvrd ue on contr:tcr t j r the con>trueti#no~f ~ir ant1 grist 111il1 ill Oreg011, nhich item i~ e ~ ~ ~ b r xi~l l :trh~e la nnual estimate of' approprintio~~rtsq oiretl ior t l ~ e1 ~1lilcna ervicc li,r tbr fiscal year ending Juue30,lSiS. THE SIOUX WAR. Por sereral years past a camp of Sioux on the Pellowstone River have been known as the northern, or hostile, or non.treaty Sioux, or more co~nmonly as Sitting Eull's baud. the^ are in no sense a recognized baud or branch of the great SiouxXation, but consist of representatives from all the bands, who bave rallied around one as their leader who claims never to have been part,y to any treaty rrith the United States, ~11dw ho styles himself chief of the followers whom llis personal power nod avowed hostility to civilization and the United States Government bave attracted around him. This camp at last became a rallying-point . , for malcontents from the various agencies; 'a paradise for those who, tired of Government beef and restless under agency restraint, mere reu-luresome enough to resort again to their old life by the chme; a field of glory for the ;young braves whose reputation for prowess was yet to be made ; and an asylum for outlaws among the Indians themselves, who, fleeing thither, might escape retributiou fbr crime. Havinc their headonarters in the center of the buffalocountrr. sir-rour~ drdi y;, l~~~ndanocft ;g ;ulie, it~&~,vudenotf the. aid oi the GL;.eru-lueltr, s c o l . ~ ~iits~ a~ugr l~ority,r letjing it$ po\\.tr, ~ I IdeJri iling its Army, t l~r sc~ l r s~, c r ;~~hlaowr s ~l,illtullra 1111 snccesst't~lel~v ;~dct~ll~ rt' ro~~ticl~. 1 iarrisons'and roamed at will over the plains of ~ g s t e r Dn akota and par ions of Montana and Wyoming, not only plundering, robbing, and fre-quently taking the lives of settlers, but extending their hostilities to every tribe of Indians in their vicinity friendly to t t ~ eU nited States. That the Crows, the Shoshones,Eaunacks, Ariekarees, D.Iandans,Utes, and the Blackfeet Nation have braved a11 threatsaud resisted all ioduce-ments offered by these adventurers, and, in spite of repeated losses by depredation, have stwadfastly adhered to their friendship to the Govern-ment, hassufficiently proved their 10,yalty; but their pathway to civili-zation has bpen neriouslv obstructed. An Indian cannot be tauebt to ~ ~~~ ~ ~~ ~ ~~ work with hoe in one 11ad and gun in the other ; and repeated exukples of unponished marauding beget restlessness and want of confideuce in the Government and inoreased reluctance to a d o ~ tth e white man's ways. The number of this so.called band was estimated last winter to bc not . o.v er 3.000. From this number not more than six or einht hundred war- ~ . . riorschnld hr~r eb et211 mustered. lircognizi~~I gI O ~o ulx t l ~ eir rrp;truble clamage to settlcmrnts c:au?;ed l ~ gtll rse desprlniloes, l ~ ta~lntu t l~r i rt lis-astrous iutluence in retarding cirilizatio~e~u ~ongth e iricudly tril~rs:,t t~d the de~uornl~zingrffroaft t l ~ ep~ror r irr~it.yi n j~ro~norinngn urleax.!. li.rlir~g anlong the rrsrrvatic~uS ioux, aud in stionlil~ga refuge t i~rc riu~in:ilst.4 u J>epn~tmcnti,l l Decclnher litst, decided to make a final atlrlngt to i~nluce |