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Show REPORT OF TEE COM31ISSIOXER OF INDIAN AFFAIRS. 21 except Cahuilla, Twenty-nine Palms, San Pasqual, San Jacinto, Agna Caliente, Los Coyotes, Torros, Santa Rosa, Morrongo, and Cabezon. On three of these, Cahuilla, Agua Caliente, and Morongo, the commis-sion recommended that allotments be made. They me large and impor-tant reservations, and it is hoped that obstacles in the way of issuing patents for them will soon be removed. Round Valley Reservation, Ca1.-The work of formally allotting the agricultural lands of this reservation was begun during the past year. These lands had been subdivided into 10-aaretracts, with the intention of allotting one tract to each Indian entitled. Owing, however, to the fact &hat many of the Indians who had left the reservation for the pur-pose of seeking their livelihood outside decided to returu and take allotmen6s, the number of Indians was found to exceed the number of tra,cts available for allotment. ' In order to supply land to all entitled thereto, the Department authorized the allotment of 5 acres only to married women whose husbands also received allotments. Although this course added considerably to the number of tracts available for allotment, the continued arrival of scattered Indians again rendered the number of tracts insufficient, and the Department aocordingly authorized their settlement upon the gracing and timbered portion of the reservation. This latter portion will, for the present, be held in common by the tribe, but may, in the discretion of the President, be allotted in severalty. Pottawatomie and Kickapoo reservations in Kansas.-As indicat,ed in my last annual report, work among these Iudians is in a rather unsatisfac-tory condition. The latest reports from Special Agent Aten indicate that 187 allotments remain to be maae to the Pottawatomies (50 of which will probably be made within a short time), and 30 to the Kick-apoos, and that these Hickapoos and 137 Pottawatomies will not volun-tarily make selections. The question whether lands shall be assigned these Indians at the expiration of the period of four years from the date of the President's order authorizing allotments to be made to them, as may be doneunder the provisions of the act of February 8, 1887 (24 Stats., 388), was sub-mitted for your consideration August 23,1894, and under your instruc-tions of August 25,1894, Special Agent Aten was directed, August 31, 1894, to notify the Indians that uliless they made their selections within thirty days from time of notice assignment.8 would be made to them. Chippewa reservations, Minnesota.-The condition of allotment work. among the Chippewas is given in detail on page29. FortBertholdResemtion,N. Dak,--Instructions approved by the Depart-ment were issued November 20,1893, for the guidance of Agent Grady in making allotments to the Indians of the Fort Berthold Reservation. The probability that "Crow Flies Highn and his band of then roving Indians, some 200 in number, might come to the reservation and ask |
