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Show XIAVI REPORT ',OF THE COMMU810NER OF .INUIAN MFAIKd. Twentysix patents wereissued January 27,1890, in favor of deceased Kickapoo Indian allottees, under the treaty of June 28, 18G2 (13 Bats., 623), and the act of August 4, 1886 (24 Stats., 219). The work on the Absentee Shawnee and Citizen PottawatomieReser-vation, in Oklahoma, has been continued during the year by Special Agent Porter. Many difficulties have been encountered by him, owing to the opposition of some of the influential Pottawatomies and one band of the Shawnees. It is expected, however, that he will be able to com-plete the work during the present season. The number entitled to allot-ments on this reservation is nearly two thousand. The work on the Oneida Reservation, colnmeuced June 18, 1889, has been continued and is understood to be nearlg completed. The number of Iodiaus entitled to allotments is some seventeen hnndred. The allotments will absorb the entire reservation. The work on the Devil's Lake Reservation, North Dakota, which was interrupted by the death of Special Agent Erebs in September of last Fear, was resumed by Special Agent Joseph R. Gray, in 'April last. He report6 that he has succeeded in overcoming in great part the oppo-sition of the Indians, and t.hat he is making good progress. Some eight hnndred Indians are entitled to allotments on this reservation. Special Agent Fletcher resumed work on the Nez Percd Reservation, Idaho, in April last. The number of Indians on this reservs.tipn en-titled to allotments is probably about two thousand, but no accurate and reliable census has ever b'eeu taken. The work is extremely diffl-cult and slow, owing to the mountaiuous and broken chara.cter of the reservation. She appears to. be executing the difficulc task with .en-ergy and determination ; but it is hardly possibletbat the work will be completed during Lhe present season. In June last, Special Agent Hatchitt was directed to resume and complete the work of making allotments on the Crow.Reservation, Montana, which had been commenced in 1887 by Special Agent How-ard, continued during 1888 and suspended during 1889. Some twelve hundred Indians are entitled to allotments,one-halfof which were made by Special Agent Howard. The Indians are settled in remote locaii-ties, and the reservation is but partially surveyed. Other surveys are now in progress. It is not probable that the work can be completed before next summer. The work at the Quapaw Agency, Iud. T., has been continued by Special Agent Hartwig, who expects to finish itduring the present month on all the reservations belonging to that agency except the Quapaw re-serve, The Indians of the latter reservation are dissatisfied with the unequal quantities of laud allowed by the general allotment act, and a bill providing for the allotment of 200 acres to each member of the tribe, and for the sale of surplus lands, is now pending in Congress. The number of Indians at this agency, exclusive of the Peorias and Miamis, is some seven hnndred and fifty. |
