TONGUE RIVER AGENCY. [Post-office address: Muddy P. O., Mont.] NORTHERN CHEYENNE RESERVATION. How established.-By Executive order, November 26, 1884. Acres cultivated.-The Indians have 75 acres under cultivation in 1886.2 Tribes and population.-The tribes living here are the Northern Cheyenne. Total population, 818.3 Location. The agency is located on Lame Deer Creek, a tributary of the Rose Bud about 4 miles from the mouth of the Lame Deer.1 Government rations.-Seventy-five per cent. of these Indians subsisted by Government rations in 1886.5 Mills and Indian employés.-None reported. Indian police.-Organized in 1886.6 Indian court of offences.-None reported. Missionary work.-Roman Catholic Church has charge. $3,420 69 Treaty with Northern Cheyenne and Northern Arapahoes, made at Fort Laramie, Wyo., May 10, 1868. Peace established. White offenders against Indians to be punished. Indian offenders to be delivered up to punishment by law. Loss of property to be examined as prescribed. (Art. 1.) Reservations and cessions.-Indians agree to make their home on reservation designated for southern Arapahoes and Cheyennes by treaty of October 28, 1867, or else to live on reservation set apart for Sioux Indians by treaty April 29, 1868, or to attach themselves to Crow Agency as established by treaty of May 7, 1868. Northern Cheyenne and Arapahoe cede to the United States all claim to territory outside said reservation, "except the right to roam and hunt while game shall be found in sufficient quantities to justify the chase." (Art. 2.) Land in severalty.-Any head of a family authorized to select 320 acres, or person over eighteen 80 acres, on any of said reservations, selections to be recorded in "Land Book," and certificates issued. President may order survey, protect settlers on their improvements, and fix character of title. United States to regulate alienation under descent of property. (Art. 3.) Provisions for seed, implements, and prizes, same as in articles 8 and 14 of preceding treaty. Educational provisions same as article 7 of preceding treaty. In lieu of annuities under other treaties, clothing provided as stipulated for thirty years, also $10 for each Indian roaming and $20 for each Indian engaged in agricult1 Report of Indian Commissioner, 1886, p. 336. Ibid., p. 186. + Ibid., p. 185. Ibid., p. 418. 2 Ibid., p. 432. 7 Ibid., p. 402. 3 Ibid., p. 402. 8 Ibid., p. xciv. ure for ten years, to be expended by the Secretary of the Interior. If deemed best Congress may change appropriation for clothing to be used for other purposes beneficial to said Indians. Army officer to be present at distribution. Any Indian over four years of age, settling permanently on a reservation and complying with this treaty, to receive for four years 1 pound of meat, 1 pound of flour per day, if he can not sooner furnish his own subsistence. Any family beginning farming to receive one pair of oxen, one cow. (Art. 6.) United States to furnish employés. (Art. 7.) Future treaties for cessions not valid unless signed by a majority of adult male Indians interested in the same. No one to be deprived of his selected lands. (Art. 8.) Proclaimed August 25, 1868.1 Agreement with Northern Cheyenne and Arapahoe and Sioux Nations, made at Sioux agencies from September 26 to October 27, 1876. Ratified February 28, 1877.2 See Sioux treaty same date, page 276. ARAPAHOE TREATIES. Unratified treaty made with Northern Arapahoe, Cheyenne, and other tribes, at Fort Laramie, Wyo., September 17, 1851.3 See Blackfoot treaties same date-Montana. Treaty with the Arapahoes and Cheyennes of Upper Arkansas River, made at Fort Wise, Kans., February 18, 1861.+ See Cheyenne and Arapahoe treaty, same date-Indian Territory. Treaty with the Arapahoes and Cheyennes of the Upper Arkansas, made at Little Arkansas River, October 14, 1865. See Cheyenne and Arapahoe treaty, same date-Indian Territory. Treaty with the Arapahoes, Cheyennes, and Apaches, made at Little Arkansas River, October 17, 1865.6 See Apache treaty same date-Indian Territory. Treaty with the Arapahoes and Cheyennes, made at Medicine Lodge Creek, Kans., October 28, 1867.7 See Cheyenne and Arapahoe treaty, same date-Indian Territory. Treaty between the Northern Arapahoes, Northern Cheyennes, and Sioux, made at Red Cloud, Spotted Tail, Standing Rock, Cheyenne River, Crow Creek, Lower Brulé, and Santee Agencies from September 26 to October 27, 1876.8 See Northern Cheyenne and Araphoe treaty same date, page 276. Unratified treaty made with Arickaree and other tribes at Fort Laramie, Wyo., September 17, 1851.9 See Blackfoot treaty, same date-Montana. Unratified agreement with Arickaree, Gros Ventre, Mandan, and other tribes, made at Fort Berthold, Dak., July 27, 1866.10 See Mandan treaty same date-Dakota. 1 United States Statutes at Large, Vol. XV, p. 655. 2 Ibid., Vol. XIX, p. 254. 1163. Ibid., 8 Ibid., Vol. XIX, 3 Indian Laws, p. 317. + United States Statutes at Large, Vol. XII,) 6 Ibid., p. 713. Indian Laws, p. 317. 7 Ibid., Vol. XV, p. 593. 10 Ibid., p. 322. p. Treaty with Bannock and Eastern bands of Shoshones, made at Fort Bridger, Utah, July 3, 1868.1 See Shoshone treaty same date-Wyoming. Executive order, November 26, 1884.2 It is hereby ordered that the following-described country, lying within the boundaries of the Territory of Montana, viz: Beginning at the point on the one hundred and seventh meridian of west longitude (said meridian being the eastern boundary of the Crow Indian Reservation) where the southern 40-mile limits of the grant to the Northern Pacific Railroad Company intersect said one hundred and seventh meridian; thence south along said meridian to a point 30 miles south of the point where the Montana base line, when extended, will intersect said meridian; thence due east to a point 12 miles east of the Rosebud River; thence in a northerly and north-easterly direction, along a line parallel with said Rosebud River, and 12 miles distant therefrom, to a point on the southern 40-mile limits of the grant to the Northern Pacific Railroad Company, 12 miles distant from said Rosebud River; thence westwardly along the said southern limits and across the said Rosebud River to the place of beginning, be, and the same is hereby, withheld from sale and settlement, and set apart as a reservation for the use and occupation of the Northern Cheyenne Indians, now residing in the southern portion of Montana Territory, and such other Indians as the Secretary of the Interior may see fit to locate thereon: Provided, however, That any tract or tracts of land included within the foregoing described boundaries which have been located, resided upon, and improved by bona-fide settlers, prior to the 1st day of October, 1884, to the amount to which such settlers might be entitled under the laws regulating the disposition of the public lands of the United States, or to which valid rights have attached under said laws, are hereby excluded from the reservation hereby made. 1 United States Statutes at Large, Vol. XV, p. 673. sioner, 1886, p. 339. CHESTER A. ARTHUR. 2 Report of Indian Commis CHAPTER XVI. INDIAN RESERVATIONS OF NEBRASKA, NEVADA, AND NEW MEXICO. NEBRASKA. For the early history of the Territory from which Nebraska was formed, see Dakota. It was organized as a Territory May 30, 1854,' and admitted as a State February 9, 1867.2 Of the Indians originally residing here, the Pawnees, Otoes, Cheyennes, and Arapahoes have been removed to the Indian Territory. The Omahas are the only original inhabitants left, the other Indians having been placed on their present reservations by the United States. There are six reservations, containing an aggregate area of 372,394.97 acres, and an Indian population of 4,425. There are two agencies, the Santee and Flandreau Agency, having charge of Niobrara Reservation, Ponca Reservation in Dakota, and the Sioux residing at Flandreau, Dakota; the Omaha and Winnebago Agency, having in charge the Omaha and the Winnebago Reservations; an Executive order reservation consisting of a small strip adjoining the Pine Ridge Agency on the Sioux Reservation. The Iowa and Sac and Fox Reservations lie partly in Nebraska and partly in Kansas, and are under the Pottawatomie and great Nemaha Agency, Kansas. SANTEE AND FLANDREAU AGENCY. [Post-office address: Santee Agency, Knox County, Nebr.] NIOBRARA RESERVATION. How established.-By act of Congress approved March 3, 1863; treaty of April 29, 1868; Executive orders, February 27, July 20, 1866, November 16, 1867, August 31, 1869, December 31, 1873, February 9, 1885. Area and survey.-There have been 32,875.75 acres selected as homesteads, 38,908.91 acres selected as allotments, and 1,130.70 acres selected for agency, school, and mission purposes." Acres cultivated.-Number of acres cultivated by Indians, 3,860.* Tribes and population.-The tribe living here is the Santee Sioux. Population, 1,010.5 United States Statutes at Large, Vol. X, p. 277. 21bid., Vol. XIV, p. 31. 3 Report of Indian Commissioner, 1886, p. 386. 4 Ibid., p. 432. 5 Ibid., p. 402. Location. The reservation is located on the west bank of the Missouri River, in townships 31, 32, and 33, ranges 4 and 5 west, in Knox County, Nebr., occupying about two-thirds of the land of the six townships named, or 69,099.46 acres allotted to Indians, 492.60 acres retained for agency and Government industrial school, 480 acres for American Missionary Association, and 158.10 acres to Protestant Episcopal Mission, making a total of 70,230.16 acres allotted to and held by Indians and retained for agency, school, and missionary purposes. Sometimes a quarter or whole section would be left, which was taken by white peo ple when a portion (44,770 acres) of the Santee reservation was restored to the public domain by Executive order of President Arthur dated February 9, 1885. So that white people own land and are living adjoining the Indians. Sometimes a white man will have an Indian adjoining him on either side, and the same with an Indian, and again there are many places where the land is occupied by Indians solidly. One hundred and thirty-two patents for 160 acres, more or less, have been issued to these Indians under sixth article of treaty concluded April 29, 1868, one hundred and twenty-three of them having twentyfive years' restrictive clause as per "An act making appropriation for the current and contingent expenses of the Indian Department, and for fulfilling treaty stipulations with various Indian tribes for the year ending June 30, 1884, and for other purposes." So that the title to the same can not be transferred for a period of twenty-five years, or the land held for any debt contracted by the Indians, and no contract or incumbrance or liability of said land for payment thereof shall be valid.1 By the severalty act of February 8, 1887, these Indians are made citizens of the United States. Government rations.-Two per cent. of these Indians subsisted by Government rations as reported in 1886.2 Mills and Indian employés.-Mill established and Indian employés reported. 1 Report of Indian Commissioner, 1886, p. 189. 2 Ibid., p. 418. |