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Show REPORT OF THE COMMISSIONER OF INDIAN AFFAIZS. 97 locate the Spokanes on the Cmur d1A16ne Reservation in permanent homes npon one tract without in some measure interfering with the Coeur d'Al4ne Indians. But as Article 2 of said agreement provides that the Spokanes shall be permitted to select their farms and homes on a tract of land to be laid off and surveyed and the bonnd. aries marked in a plain and substantial manner, under the direc-tion of the Secretary of the Interior, on saidCceur d7A16neReservation, Speoial,Agent T. P. Smith was recently instructed to proceed to that reservation at his earliest opportunity and, in conjunction with Special Agent Hardman and the U. S. Indian agent of the Colville Agency, Washington, to lay off and describe therein a tract for the Spokanes, and to explain the whole matter in council to the Oceur d7A16ncs. Owing to the death of Agent Ronan, of the Blathead Agency, Special Agent Smith was recalled from these duties and ordered to take charge of that agency. The acting agent of the Colville Agency was at the same time instructed to perform jointly with Special Agent Hard-man the duties previously assigned to Special Agent Smith. Some opposition having been shown by the Cmur d'Al6nes in the matter of selecting lands for the Spokanes, the business has been temporarily SUE-pended. STOCKBRIDGE AND MUNSEE INDIANS IN WISCONSIN. Perhaps there is no tribe of Indians in the United States whose affairs have been so complicated and confused as the Stockbridge and Mnnsee tribe in the State of Wisconsin. Their troubles have been due to internal dissensions engendered and kept alive by the intrigues of ambitious members of opposing factions of the tribes; to the intermed-ling of designing white luen living in the vicinity of their reservation, who have sought to make money out of the timber on the reservation; and to unwise legislation enacted npon therepresentations of interested parties, who claimed that it was for the purpose of healing the divisions existing among the leading elements of the tribe,hut which really made the situation more perplexing and intricate. The troubles of these Indians began in 1831 with the treaty of that year between the United States and the Menornonee tribe of Indians (7 Stats., 342) by an amendment to which a reservation of two town-ships of land was made " for the use of the Stockbridge and Munsee tribes." In order to settle the dissensions that existed among the mem-bers of the tribes named, treaties were eutered into rrith them on Sep-tember 3,1839 (7 Stats., 580), November 3,1848 (9 Stats., 955), andFeb-ruary 5,1856 (11 Stats., 663). 111 the meantime acts of Congress,liaving in view the same purpose, were approved on March 3,1843 (5 Stats., 645), under which each and every member of the tribes became a citi-zen of the United States January 1,1844; August 6,1846 (9 Stats. 7899 1 A-7 |