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Show RFPORT OF THE COJIXISSIONER OF INDIAN AFFAIRS. XXXT~II QUAPAWS. This tribe, numbering about 200, has a reservation in the northeast corner of the Indian Territory, consisting of 56,685 acres, about three-fourths of which are said to be good tillable lands, the remainder being timbered and well adapted to grazing purposes. The location of these Indians so near the border, and close to Baxter Bprings, has pro~ed somewhat dangerous to the interests of the tribe. In spite of the safe. guards thrown around them, they could at all times easily procure intori-eating iiquors, through the agency of worthless whites, a,nd a large pro. portion of the tribe formed habits of dissipation, became indolent, and made but very little progress in civilized pursuits. To escape these evils, the principal chief and at lcast half of the t,ribe, in 1876, remored to the Osage Agency, and have been joined since by nearly all the mem-bers of the tribe, there being at the present time only 35 of their nnm-ber at the agency. They have intermarried with the Osages, speak t,he same language, and properly belong with them. The agent of the 0sages reports that thosc at his agency seem cheerful and contented, and havc no idea of returning to their own reservation j that they are anxious to work, and during the past gear hare made quite an effort to raise some-thing to subsist npon. The tribe take much interest in the education of their children, and those who have had school privileges for the past few years have made commendable improvement. Encouraged in these praiseworthy efforts, these children ma.v, in a fern years, become nsef~~l and efficient edncators of their tribe and exemplary members of society. SAC AND FOX INDIANS OF IO'iVA. These Indians are located in Tarna County, Iowa, on the line of the Chicago and Northwestern Railroad, and number inall about 355. The1 belong to the Sac and Pox of the Mississippi, aunrl formerly resided with that tribe upon a reservation in Kansas. At the time of the allot-ment of lands in severalty to the members of the tribe, nntler their treaty of 1859, somc of them, headed by the Chief Maw-mew-wah-ne-kah, were bitterly opposed to receiring lands in severalty and refi~sed to be en-rolled for that pnrpose, and it was charged that this chief used his influence to impede and prencut the execution of the treaty. For this contnmacions co~~duhcet was deposed from his chieftainship, and there-upon, with some five or six lodges u.40 were induced to follow him, he left his people in Kansas and rcturned to Iowa, whero he was snbsc-quently joined by other members of the tribe and by straggling Potta-watomies and Winuebagoes. From tlie time they left Kansas up to 1867 they received no aid from the government, but lived by cnltirating small patches of land in summer, ml~erevert hey could get the pririlege of doing so, trapping in winter, and begging when there was a necessity. In 1860, attention was called to their destitute condition, and a special |
