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Show REPORT OF THE COMMISSIONER OF INDIAN AFFAIRS. LXY air of the Idaho Mountains, can never be eradicated, and any longer delay, wit.11 the hope of a final contentment on their part with their present situation, is, in my judgment., futile and unnecessary. 111 view of all the facts, I am constrained to belieoe that the renlna~~oft this tribe should be returned to Idaho, if possible, early next spring, and I respectfully suggest that this matter be submitted to Congress at its next session, with a recomn~endation that an appropriation be made sufficient to meet the,necessary expenses of ren~oval thither. But if Congress should decide that the best interests of all conrerned will be best snbserred by retaining these Indians where they now are, it will be necessary to have such legislation a,s will perfect the title to the lands which have been selected for them ancl upon which they now reside. PONC AS. In my last annual report reference was made to the mistake which occurred in the treaty between the United States and the Sioux Indians, concluded April 29, 1868 (1.5 Stat., 635), by which lal~dsb elonging to the Poncaa were taken uwayfrom then1 and given to the Sioux. It was stated that an agent was then among the Sioux Indians, parties to the treaty of April 29,1868, to obtain the ratification of the agreement en-tered into at Washington, August 20,1881, by certain chiefs of the Sioux, for the purpose of correcting the mistake in part. Since that time the agreement has been signed by 722 members of the bands located at the St andi~Kg ook Agency ; by 416 of t,hose located at the Chegenne River Agency; by 908 of the Ogallalas, located at Pine Ridge; and by 292 of the Lower.Brul6s; making a total of 2,335. The Indians at Rosebud Agency having refnsed to sign this agree-inent., the agent was instructed, under date of Jaunary 27,1882, to make a written statement on the back of the agreement that the Indians at that agency refused to sign an a.greement to givemore than 160 acres to beads of families and 80 acres to single adults, but that they do agreeto sign one giving the amount as above. Eleven hundred and sixty-seoen of these Indians thereupon signed the following modified agreement: We, the undersigned Illdians of Rosebull Agenc~D, akota, refuse to sign thisagree-merit giving 640 aores to heads of families, hut we do hereby agree to give 16U acres for the use and ooonpation of each head of family, and SO aores to eaah single male or female over eighteen years of age, and we have as an evidenoe that we oonsent toand ratifji this amended agreement herelinto s~tbsonberol ur names this 28th day of March, A. D. Three thousand fioe hundred and five of the Sioux Indians, therefore, have consented to the agreement either as originally prepared or in the modified form. The Lower Yanktonais, located at Crow Creek Agency, refused to sign t.be agreement on the ground that they had no interest or right in the , lanth en~bmcedin t,he Great Sioux Reservation, and that their rights and interests, if they had any, were in the lands on the east sideof the Mis- IN-Y |
