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Show REPOET OF THE COMMISSIORER OF IXDIAN AFFAIRS. 93. LOWER BRULfi SIOUX ON ROSEBUD RESERVATION. In the last aunual report of this officereferenc?e is made to the " Eose-bud agreement," so-called, concluded under authority of a clause con-tained in the Indian appropriation act of March 3,1891 (26 Stats., 1009), whereby such of the Lower Brule Sionx as desired to do so might settle and take lauds in severalty upon the Rosebud Reservation, S. Dak., the Indians so transferred to cede and relinquish to the Rose-bud Indians d l their right, title, andinterest in and to the Lower Brul4 Reservation. This proposition was rendered null and void for the reason that it failed to secure the consent of three-fourths of the Lower Brul6 Indians, which, it was understood, would be required in order to make it bind-ing upon the tribe. The action of the Indians in the matter was deolared by the Department to be final, and all parties interested were informed of that fact. There are some 500 or GOO of the Lower Brul6s now living south of White River and on the Rosebud Reserve, and efforts have been made to induce them to remove to their ornil (the Lower Brnl6) reservation or to the Sioux ceded lands, and to take allotments thereon, if entitled to do so under the law and existing Depastmental instructions; but they still linger on the Rosebud Reservation. However, Special Agent Thomas P. Smith recently reported to this office, after an investigation of the matter, that, in his opinion, these Indians would remove to their own reservation when the ag.ency and the bnildi~igsb elonging thereto shall have been removed to the nem Lower Brul6 Reservation. Steps are now being taken to remove the agency thither. When the removal of the agency is completed and an issue house has been constructed on the reservation, steps will be taken to remove tho Lower Brul6s from the Rosebud Reserve. HOQUI RESERVATION. Nothing of special interest has occurred respecting the 1ndia.n~of this reservation during the past year. The work of allotting their lands in severalty has becn in progress since January, 1802, but the progress is slow. The peculiar formation of the land and habits of the Indians together k t h the opposition of one of the three bands or vil-lages of Indians have been the cause of greatly ret,arding the work. They are now and for some time have been much exercised over the intrusion of some of their neighbors, the Navajoes, a number of whom have been for some years located upon certhin tracts of land desired by the Moquis. Measures looking to their removal are now being pushed. |