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Show IP REPORT OF THE COXMISSIONER OF INDIAN AFFAIRS. 1 The demands upon the office for implements, tools, kc., to enable ;them to perform manual labor, come from the Indians at a large ma-jority of the agencies, and are far beyond the means at the disposal of the department for that purpose. Many cases could be cited where it has been necessary to deny the requests made for funds to supply the wants of the Indians in this respeot, simply because of the inade-quate appropriations provided for the purpose. In some cases the office has been unable to supplement the insufficient facilities already pro-vided for farming, and what had been accomplished in such instances has become of little or no avail, because of a lack of means to continue the work thus imperfectly begun. The education of 111dian youth is a subject whose import.ance cannot be over-estimated. As will be shown hereafter, the progress during the yeas has not been commensurate with the desires of the office, priuoi-pally because of the insufficiency of the funds appropriated for the pnr-pose. While the sum provided by Congress for educating Indian chil-dren seems to be a large one, yet it barely suffices to continue the work already begun, and is insuificient to permit of any extended incream I in educational facilities, and wholly inadequate to meet the increasing r demands of the service. The past year hasbeeu an eminently pcacefi~lo ne amongst the Indian tribes. Excepting the incursions of Viotoria and his band in Arizona and New Mexico, aud the semi-hostile attitude of Sitting Btlll and his followers, but little, if any, trouble has been experienced iu the Indian country. . . POPULATION. The number of Indians in the United States, exclusive of Alaska, is 255,938. These are distributed among sixty-eight agencies at present established in the following States and Territories : rate I". Stntes and Territories. A5 i. . if. * fg, ;P b POPula- ~ . Arirona.. .......................................................... .;.. ... 1 : Calimmin. ............................................................... 148,,170048 Colorado (White River Agsncg abandoned) ............................... a 2.530 Dakota ................................................................... 10 21.1G8 Idaho.. ................................................................... 3 3,420 Indian Tenitow. ........................................................ 7 17,398 Indim Territory (aiuilied tribes). ........................................ 1 59,11 Iowa ..................................................................... 1 355 KB~B.B....B..... ......................................................................................................................... . 1 W bbiohigm 1 10,141 MinnssotE ................................................................ 1 8,198 Montana .................................................................. 5 a], 650 Nebmaak~.. .............. ..:. ............................................. 4 4,308 wevads. ............................................................................................................................... a 6, ROO New Mexico 3 .2%4, 52 New Pork ................................................................ 1 5,139 Ore on ............................................................... 6 4,655 U+A% ................................................. :.:I ................ 1 450 Wsahin$ton Territaq .................................................... 7 14, 189 Wiaconsln ................................................................ 2 7, 637 Wyoming ................................................................. 1 2. UG3 Total. .............................................................. 68 240,138 |