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Show I REPORT OF $HE COMMISSIONE$ OF INDIAN AFFAIl28. 43 home with an intimate knowledge of the seamy side of white civilization, hisdesire for change and excitement intensified, his all too faint aspirations for the benefit8 of civilization oheckad, if not destroyed, and with a, conviction that the boasted morality of the whites is nothing to be proud of or to copy. The agenoy physician states that nearly all of the nnnamable diseases now occurring on this reservation are traceable to thoae Indians who have returned from shows and expositions. I ALLOTMENTS AND PATENTS. The progress made in allotment work since the last annual report is as follows : ON EESEEVATIONS. During the year patents have been issued and delivered to the following Indians: Sioux of the Devils Lake Reservation, N. Dak ..................... 260 Round Valley Reservation, Cal l.. .................................. 18 Hoops Valley (addition), Cal.. .................................... 414 Southern Ute, Colo ................................................ 860 The issuance of patents to the Rosebud Sioux has been suspended until the requirements of the agreement concluded with these Indians March 10,1898, referred to below, can be complied with. Allotments have been approved by this office and the Department as follows : Chippewas of Lake S~pperio.ro n the Lao dm Flambeau Reserva- - tion, Wis ....................................................... 353 Sioux on the Rosebud Reservation, S. Dak ......................... 469 Certificetea iasued to members of the Kiowa and Comanohe tribes, Oklshoma ...................................................... 11 Schedules of the following allotments have been received in this office, but have not been finally acted upon: glamath Reservation, Oreg ...................................... 1,179 Otoe and Missonria reeervations, Okls ............................ 632 Ydxima Reservation, Wash ....................................... 440 Colvillq Wash ................................................... 198 June 24, August 31, and October 31,1898, the Uncompahgre commis-aion submitted to this office schedules of 295 allotments made to the Uncompahgre Indians. Each of these schedules embraced allotments on both the Uncompahgre and Uiutah reservations; but only one schedule was rendered in duplicate. By the act of June 7,1897 (30 Stats., 62), all the lands in the Uncom-pahgre Reservation remaining uuallotted on April 1, 1898, became open on that date for location and entry. But none of the allotments on that reservation had been made prior to that date. Therefore, by the act of March 1,1899 (30 Stats., 924), the Secretary of the Inte-rior was authorized, in his discretion, to approve 83 allotments made to the Uncompahgres within the former Unoompahgre Reservation in |
