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Show LXIV REPORT OF THE COMMISSIONER OF INDIAN AFFAIRS. abandon tbose i~nprovementsi, t would be but sheer justice to pay them the full value thereof, in addition to the $100 per capita which the treaty promised them if they should emigrate. I have uo reason to suppose that the Chickasaws would object to leg. islatiou requiring them to return the $55,125 to the United States, pro: rided, by the same legislation, they coiild be relieved of the presence of their freedmen. Congress has heretofore been asked to enact t l ~ e necessarylegislation for the removal oftbesc freedmen,and in my opin-ion the recommendation shonld be renewed. A special report upon the subject with a draft of the necessary legislation will be prepared and submitted for your consideration before the meeting of Congress. TI!!Ll3 OF PAWNEES TO THAT PORTION OF THEIR RESERVATION CEDED TO UNITED STATES BY CREEKS. A portion of the lauds set aparbto the Pawnees as a rcs~.rvationu, u-der the act of April 19, 1876 (19 Stats., 28), comprising 53,005.96 acres, was ceded to the United States by the Creeks by the third article of the treaty of June 14,18G6 (14 Stat&, 785). Pull payment for this land at 30 cents per acre has beeu made to the Government from the pro. ceeds of the sale of the Pawnee reservation in Nebraska, but a proper title thereto has not been given the Pawnees. Under the provisions'of the act of March 3,1583 (22 Stats., 603), the Cherokee Nation executed a deed conl~eying tkst portion of the Pawnee reservation lying withiu the Oherokee country to theUuitcd States in trast for the use and bene-fit of the Pawllee tribe. These Indians now desire, and I think they should h~ve.t,i tle to that portion of their reservation which lies withiu the ceded Creek country, and I shall take. occasion to make a special report on the subject with.aviewto obtaining the necessary legislation. MO-KO-HO-KO BAND OF SAC AND FOX BOBMERLY IN KANSAS. ~ h e s Ien dians, who, as stilted in my last annual report, were wander-ers inHansas? without any right,s there of citizenship or property, have been removed, under instructions from the.Departmeut, to the Sac and Fos reservation in the Indian Territory, where they arrived in the early part of November, 1886. They have an abundance of land on said res-ervation, and by residing there can draw their annuities, which, under the restrictions contained in the treaty with the Sacs and Foxes, made February 18,1861 (15 Stats., 495), they could not draw so long as they resided elsewhere. Every effort will be made to keep these Indians on their reservation, and to induce them to engage in civilized pursuits and send their children to school. Their head men were opposed to removal and endeavored to prevent; enrollment at the Sac and Pox agency, but were compelled to yield. They are now enrolled, and are drawing their annuities as other members of the Sac and Fox tribe, and I trust will cause no further trouble. |
