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Show REPORT OF THE COMMISSIONEE OF INDIAN AFFAIRS. LXV harefuudsbelongingto the~n,Congresshassolegislatedthattheirmoneys now can be used only for the purchase of agricultural implements and educational purposes. This baud is without a superinteudent or agent, and, so far as this office has supervision, is in an anomalous aild unsat-isfactory condition. The bitter feuds that have existed so long between the several factions have added to the many difficulties which embarrass the band and retard its progress in civilization and wealth. The Cherokee national authorities in Indian Territory last spring appointed a delegation to visit North Carolina and to invite and induce these Indians to remove to the Indian Territory. The principal chief of the nation, D. W. Bushyhead, offered every reasonable inducement to them to remore, and this office encouraged the effort, and it was hoped Congress would have furnished the necessary authority and means for remorad. Notwithstanding this disappointment, quite a number of applications have been filed asking assistance to effect their remoral, and one party, consisting of fort^-one adults and thirty-two children, started on their own resources; but on reacl~ingT ennessee their means were exhausted, and, on their urgent appeal, this department furnished the means hereby they reached their destination. Since then nineteen others have arrived in Indian Territory, and I have no doubt many more, if not all, might be induced to remove were the proper facilities fu-uislled them. That is their home and there they should be settled. INDIANS IN WASHINGTON TERRITORY AND OREGON. The treaty provisions with the "confederated tribes and ba11ilds"and the Walla Walla, Cayuse, and Umatilla tribes in Oregon, and the D' Wamish and other allied tribes, Makahs, Quinaielts, Quillehutes, S'Eallams, and Yakamasin Washington Territory, expiredwith thefiscal year ending June 30,1580. Congress, however, in compliance with the request of this department, made appropriations for their benefit, and their condition is still such that the aid and assistance heretofore ex-tended should be continued. An inspection made this year of all the agencies in the Territories above alluded to has added to the desire of this office that increased cdncational facilities be provided, and that the several reservations occupied by them be surveyed and titles in severalty given to the In-dians. The principal agency by which these Indians can be elevated is believed to be the "industrial school." Several such schools are now in successful operation at their agencies and others are contemplated, and the requisite appropriations for this purpose and for other neces-sarj- objects are respectfully recommended. MALHEUR RESERTATION. The appraisement and sale of the 1\IaIhenr Reservation in So~~theast-ern Oregon, as recommended in the last annual report of this bnreau 1 IND-V |
