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Show I ALLOTMENTS. The progress made in allotment work since the last a11onal report is as follows: On reservations.-To the following Indians the patents issued last year have been delivered: Cheyennes and Arapahoes is Oklahoma ..................... 3,294 Citizen Pottawstumies in Oklahoma ......................... 1,363 Ahsontee Shawnees in Oklahoma ........................... 561 Patents have been issued and delivered to the following Indians: Pottawetomies in Kansas.. .................................. 115 Senecas in Indian Territory ................................. 301 Eastern Shawnees in Indian Territory ....................... 48 Sao and Fox in Kansas and Nebraska ........................ 76 Oneidas i p Wisoonsin.: ..................................... 1,500 Patents have been isaued, but not delivered, to the following Indians:' Sisseton and Wahpeton Sioux in North Dakota ant1 South Dakota ................................................... 1,339 Medawakanton, eto., Sioux on Devil's Lake Reservatiox, in NorthDakota ............................................. 776 Tonkawas in Oklahoma ..................................... 73 Allotments have been approved by this office and the Department, and patents are now being prepared in the General Land Office for the following Iudisns: Pottswatomien in Kansas. ................................... 150 Pawnees in Okl~iharnm.. ..................................... 820 Umstiiles, Capaes, and Wall* Wallas in Oregon ............ 893 Klamath River Indians in California.. ...................... 161 Schedules of the following allotments have been reaeived in this office, b i ~ht a ve ndt yet been finally acted upon: Iowas in Kansas and Nchmek a,.. ........................... 142 Nez PereEs in Idaho.. .......................................1 ,699 Medawakanton, etc., Sionr in North Dakota.. ............... 356 Indiana on Sileta Reservation. in Orngon .................... 636 Work is progressing in the field as follows: Ponca and 0toe.reservations in 0kl;thoma. Warm Springs Reservation in Oregon. On Jnly 16 last the allotting agent reported that 674 out of 800 allotmerlts had bee11 made. Yalrama Reservation in Washiugton, nearly completed. Moqui Reservation in Arizona. This is referred to more particularly on page 93. Pottawatomie and Iiickapoo reservations in Kansas. Allotment work among the Prairie band of Pottawato~nies in Kansn,s is in a rather unsatisfactory condition. The special agent instructed Feb-ruary 9,1891, to make allot~nentsto them and t,o the Kialiapoos, had succeeded up to August 1, 1893, in making allotments to only 278 out of about 500 Pottawatomies. The delay is owing to the opposition of the turbulent element of the band, led by Wahquohboshkuck and |
