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Show 1 XX REPORT OF THE CO&lMIliSIONER OF INDIAN AFFAIRS. I authority to use funds belonging to the Osages for their benefit failed to be given. I most earnestly hope that such authority will be granted by Congress at an early stage in the coming session, the funds thus placed at the disposal of the oftice to be expended in the purchase of supplies to be issued only in return for labor, in the coiitinuauce of the manual-labor boarding-school, and in giving assistance in agricultural pursuits. PAWNEES. The removal of the Pawnees from Nebra~ka to the Indian Territory, begun in the winter of 1873, h& been completed duriug the year, and the whole tribe are now upon a valuable reservatioll in the forks of the Arkausas and Cimarron Rivers, on land ceded to the United States by the Cherokees for Indian occupation. They are well pleased with their new home and have made praise-worthy efforts to establish themselves therein on a civilized basis. The exigency which led to the removal of the main body of the tribe in the 1 fall of 1874, the failure of the Forty-third Congress, in the hurry of its closing hours, to pass a bill authorizing the sale of the Nebraska reser-vation, and appropriating funds (to be reimbursed from the proceeds of such sale) to defray expenses of removal and establishment, and the consequent necessity laid upon the Department to proceed, wlth the approval of the Presideut, but at great disadvantage, to furnish snp-i plies, obtain employbs, erect agency-buildings, and open farms, trusting to the next Congress to provide for the payment of the indebtedness thusincurred, were fully reported to Congress in January last, in H. R. Ex. Doc. No. 80. As already stated, action thereon was delayed until April, and in the mean time the full amount of indebtedness authorized by the President having been incurred, employ6s were discharged, the work stopped, and the Pawnees were compelled by hunger to leave their reservatlon and seek amoue border-settlements such scanty subsistence ~ ~ ~ . as they were able to pick up. Notwithstanding all drawbacks and discouragements, sixteen agency-buildings and twelve Indian houses have been erected during the year. Thrcu hundred and fifty acres have been under cultivation. Two day-schools have met with exceptional success in securing a regular attend-ance of 100 pupils. Indian labor has been largely and effectively used. The cultivation of the agency-farm in Nebraska during the past season nuder contract mill yield some revenue to the tribe. Tile act of April 10,1876, provides for the appraisement and sale of the Nebraska lands and for an advancement of funds (to be reimbursed to the Treasury from the proceeds of such sale) to carry on the work of putting the Pawnees into a oontlition in which they may reasonably be expected to support themselves by their own labor in civilized pursuits WILD TRIBES OB THE INDIAN TERRITORY. I take pleasure in inviting attention to. the reports of the agents for the Uheyenues and Arapahoes and t,he Kiowas and Comanches. With the exception of the Arapahoes and a portion or the Kiowas, these are the Indians who last year surrendered uucondit~onally, after eleren montbs' hostilities; who were dismounted and disarmed; and whose ringleaders were sent to Saint Augustine, Fla., for imprisonment under military guard. Their complete humiliation has resulted not only in quiet and orderly behavior, but in the luanifestation of a dc-cided disposition to enter upon a civilized mode of life. The boarding-schools at each agency have been crowded and the nninber of applicants for admission ha.6 far exceeded the number that could be accommo~1ated. One chief oitered a pony for the privilege of |
