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Show LXXVIII REPORT OF TBE $OMMISSIONER OF INDIAN AFFAIRS. ance from the Nation West that they would be readmitted therein, as soggested by the Supreme Court, to all rights, immunities, and priv-ileges as members of that Nation, I am satisfied that they would take early action to clispose of their interests East, and remore to, and unite with, the Cherokee Nation West. With this in view negotiations should be had with the Cherokee Nation. If this can be successfully accom-plished, then snch legislation will be asked as may be necessary to bring about the desired end. BOUNDARIES OF XLAXATH RESERVATION IN OBEGON. 111 1871 the outboundaries of this reservation were surveyed, since which time a dispute has existed between the white settlers and oattle men in the vicinity and the Iudians, the latter claiming that the east-ern boundary was located too far west, thus depriving them of a large tract of country given them by treaty,and the former claiming thatthe eastern boundary included a large tract of country properly belonging to the public domain. In October, 1886, this office recommended that the boundary lines of the reservation be surveyed in ao3ordance with the provisions of the treaty of October 14,1864 (16 Stats., 707). Subsequently, upon information from the General Land Office that the survey of the eastern boundary not be satisfactory either to the Indians or settlers until its location had been agreed npon by a com-mission, I directed the agent in charge of the reservation to make afull investigation of the matter, and to take the evidence of all available witnesses. Upon receipt of his report, in view of the vague and indefi-nite description of the boundaries given in the treaty, and the fact that settlement had been mwle upon the.lancls east of the reservation, it was determined to reestablish the eastern boundary in accordance with the survey mude in 1871, although the claim of the Indians seemed to be well substantiated. When the line is re-marked, the military will be requested to protect the reservation from theenmbachments of cattle-men, concerning which the Indians have made many complaints. It is also my intention to present the claim of the Indians to Congress for an appropriation to compensate them for the lands lost by the loca-tion of the boundary line, if, upon further consideration, they appear to be clearly entitled to the same. THE ALLEGED UTX OUTBEEAX. More than passing notice should be given the recent trouble in Colo-rado, recalling, as it does, too vividly the Sand Creek and Camp Grant .massacres which blot the history of the dealings of the American peo-ple with Indians. When the body of the Ute Indians removed in 1882from their heredi-tary home in Colorado to their new reserves in Utah, several small |
