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Show v4"" XLVllI REPORT OF THE COMMISSIONER OF INDIAN AFFAIRS. to the Indian Territory, to secure their lands in severalty on either the old or new reservation, in accordailce with their wishes, and to settle all mat,ters of difference wit11 these 111clians;" the a~noullt so appro. priated to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of t l ~ e11 1- terior : (1) For the purchase of the aforesaid reservation in Indian Ter-ritory, $50,000; (2) for distribntion per capita among the Ponca Illdiaus iu IndiauTerritory, $10,000; (3) to purchase : - cattle and dranglit animals for the Pollcas in Indian Territory, $3,000 (4) to erect dwell. I ing-houses, purchase agricultural implements, c3 stocli and seed, for school ! purposes, and to distribute per ci~pitato the Poncas in Dakota, $25,000. Seventy thousand dollars were also appropriated LL'tboe held as a per-manent fund in the Treasnryof the United States, at 5 per cent. inter-est. the iuterest to be distributed annually among all t11e Ponca In-dians in cash." The amonnts thus appropriated have been, so far as practicable, expended for the pnrposes for wllich they were appro-priated. It has not beer~practicablea s yet to devote the money appro. priated for the erection of houses for the Poncas in Dakota to that use, for the reason that they ha*e as yet no settled title to any land in tbtat Territory. With aview to securing a permanent iome for those Poncas who left the Ponca Reservation in Indian Territory uuder the chief Standing , Bear-being the Indians referred to in the aforesaid appropriation bill as the "Poncas nonr in Dakota'~de1egationsfromt he Omaha aud Win-nebago Indians in Nebraska, and from the Sioux in Dakota, mere brought to this city in August last, and under date of 30th of that month the delegations of Sionx from Rosebud, Piae Ridge, and Stand-ing Rock Agencies sigued an agreement to give to these Ponoas land for homes n-here they formerly resided. The agreement is as follows : Wheress by B mistake made io the treaty between the United States and the Sioux Iodisns oo April 69,1868, iojuatioe was done to the Pooca Indiann by taking sway from them and giviug to the Sioos lsnda whioh bslbnged to the Poocm; and Whereas the Sionx Indians, in co!~noila aaernbied in the oity of Wi~shingtona, re de-sirous of correcting that mistake in order to do justice to the Puooas; and ' Whereas tho United Ststes has given lands to a portion of the Poncas who removed to t.he Indian Territory, opoo which they are now living and contented; and Whereas it is desired to provide lands for suoh of the Poncas as &I8 now in Dakota, ss well as thoae io t,he Indian Territory : Now, therefore, tbis agreement, made tbis 20th day of August, 1831, by the Sionx 10- dims resident opon the reservation in the 'Territory of Dskots, reprasented by their chief8 and headmen now present in Wahington, and ooder the supervisiou sod with the tlpproval of the Secretary of the Interior of the United States, witnessetb: The said tribes of Sioux Iodiaoa do hereby cede and relinqoish to the U~iitedS tates so much of that portion of the present Sioux Reaervntion as was fannerly occupied by the Panoa tribe of Iodiaos, set forth sod described by the supplemental treaty between the United Sratea of America and the Ponoa tribe of Indims concluded Dlsroh 10,1865 - (14 Stats., 675), ss may he nqcessclry for the settlement of that portion of the Ponca tribe under Standing Bear now on or residing near theold Ponoa Reservatioo, for their use sod aooopation, iu the proportilo aod to tba extent of as many tracts af G40 acres each ;ls there are heads of families and male members now of the axe of tvcuty-one yew9 and upwarils sod onmarried. |
