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Show . , . . ... ..~ < ~&ada.- here are three small reservations, the Western sh&hone, . ..: ., , ~ ~ Pyramid Lake, and Wilker River. Negotiations referred to on page 74 ' ':: ' ''+ ' I. . : ; .+re now in progress looking to the removal of the Indians from Walker . . . . . River to the Pyramid Lake Reservation. No allotment work has yet ,. . . ' . . " ' . ,. been i~ndertakenin Nevada. ~. . . .: Utah.-The Ute Indians upon the Uintah 'and Uncompahthgre resep- - ... .. ._ i - vations are not sufficientlya dvanced to warrant the allotment of their ~. : :.~ ;.: ..' - , . lands in severalty. , . ~ r . : . . . . .Ad#ona.-The only allotments which have been completed in thiis , ~' I~.~.~~ . . , Territory ara those to the Papagoes on the San Xavier Reservation. - . . . . The workis in progress on the Noqui Reservation. ~ . . ... ,'The Apaches on tlii White Mountain or San Carlos Reservation are . . . ~, , . . . ., not qnaliGed for allotments. . . . . The character of the lands of the remaining reservations is inch is ' . : . to rendertheir allotment unadvisable, at least until further irrigation. . . . '- . facilities have been provided. ~. .. . . .Colorado.-No steps have been taken in regard to the allotmGnt of the ~... - , lands of the Southern Utes, as legislation looking to their removal ha8 . ,, ::, :. -: < . .. 'been pending in Congress for seyeral years. . . -.. . 1Vm dla%co.-Allotments have been made in the field to the .Jicarilla ~ . . , ':~ Apaohes, and surveys have been ordered on the Mescalero Apache Res- . . : :.. . . - er+&tion. . ~ ' , ' .. The various villages of Pueblo 1ndia.nh~o ld their lands for the most . , , . . ... . . .. part by patent and they are not subject to allotment. . ~. ' . , . A portion of the Navajo Reservation is also in this Territory. . . ,, ....- - Kansas.-The only ~eservationns ow existing, except a portion of the . ' . ' ; Iowa and Sac and Fox reservations referred to under Nebraska, are . . .. . .. those of t b Prairie Band of Pottawatomies and theEickapoos; These . -: . i; . , . . Indians have bitterly opposed allotments, but 115 have been made te .; . . . thePottawhtomies add approved by the Department. . . . .. . Oklahoma.-Allotments have bean completed to the Sac and Fox In- .. : -. ' i rlians, the Absentee Shawnees, the Citizen Pottawatomies, the Iowas, . .. .~. .~ and the Cheyennes and Arapahoes. 'They,are in progress on the several reservations &ached to tke Ponca Agency, and agreements have been completed, although not yet ~ . ~ . ~.j ... .. : ratified, by wbich the Eickapoos and Wichitas are to take their lands- , .- in severalty. - .. Theremainingreservations are thod60f the Osages, the Kawa, and the ,. .; Kiowas and Comanches; which tribes. are probably as-ready to receive . . allotments aa were the Cheyennes and Arapahoes. The reservation of . ~ .- the Osages is exempted from the operation of the general ~llotmenlta w. -i: Indian Territory.-Nlotments have been made on all of the reserva- :_ . tions attached to the Quapaw Agency, except that of the Quapaws. . I . .. .L The lands of the Five Civilieed Tribes are not subject to allotment.' ,'. . , --'Fromt. his brief r6suni4 I am led -to the conclusion that the allotment :, ' - . ' ~' :" $ ! ' , : of land to all of the Indians to whom application of the severalty law - . - . . . . . . . - . - . . - . :. -' .. I . . . . . ,-- . .. ' ~ ..~ - -8 - -;.. ' ":I, _ ~ - . ~ ..- ., .., |