Interior may deem proper for a term of ten years. Congress may by law permit money used for clothing to be expended for other purposes. President to detail an army officer to be present at delivery of goods. (Art. 9.) To the validity of any treaty çeding lands the consent of a majority of adult males shall be necessary. No cession by the tribe shall deprive any individual member, without his consent, of the tract of land selected by him. A prize of $50 shall be given for three years to each of ten persons growing the best crops each year. (Art. 11.) Treaty ratified in 1869.1 Fort Hall Reserve.2 (This reservation is included in the Executive order of June 14, 1867, and preliminary correspondence, under the head of "Coeur d'Aléne Reserve.") Department of the Interior, Office of INDIAN AFFAIRS, July 23, 1869. SIR: I have the honor to submit herewith a letter from Charles F. Powell, special United States Indian agent, Fort Hall Agency, Idaho Territory, dated the 30th ultimo, which letter was forwarded to this office, with indorsement dated the 6th instant, by Hon. D. W. Ballard, Governor and ex-officio superintendent of Indian affairs for said Territory, and would respectfully call your attention to that portion of Agent Powell's letter relative to a selection of reservation for the Bannock Indians. It is provided in the second article of the treaty concluded with the Eastern band of Shoshones and the Bannock tribe of Indians, July 3, 1868, that whenever the Bannocks desire a reservation to be set apart for their use, or whenever the President of the United States shall deem it advisable for them to be put upon a reservation, he shall cause a suitable one to be selected for them in their present country, which shall embrace reasonable portions of the Port Neuf and "Kansas prairie" countries, and that when the reservation is declared, the United States will secure to the Bannocks the same rights and privileges therein and make the same and like expenditures therein for their benefit, except the agency house and residence of agent, in proportion to their numbers, as herein provided for the Shoshone Reservation. By virtue of Executive order, dated June 14, 1867 (herewith inclosed), there was set apart a reservation for the Indians in southern Idaho, including the Bannocks. This reserve, it will be observed from the diagram accompanying said Executive order, embraces a portion of the country which the treaty provision above quoted provides the reservation for the Bannocks shall be selected from. It appears from the letter of Agent Powell that the Bannocks are at present upon the reserve set apart by Executive order, as above stated, and that they desire to remain there. I think the area embraced within this reserve is sufficient for the Bannocks and any other Indians that it may be desired to locate thereon. I therefore respectfully recommend that the same be designated as the reserve provided for in the treaty of July 3, 1865, as herein before recited, and that the President be requested to so direct. Very respectfully, your obedient servant, Hon. J. D. Cox, E. S. PARKER, Secretary of the Interior. DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR, SIR: I have the honor to submit here with a communication from the Commissioner of Indian Affairs, dated the 23d instant, and accompanying papers, relative to the designation of a reservation in Idaho for the Bannock Indians, as provided by the 1 United States Statutes, Vol. XV, p. 673. 1886, p. 325. 2 Report of Indian Commissioner, second article of the treaty of July 3, 1868, with that tribe, and for the reasons stated by the Commissioner respectfully recommended that you direct that the lands reserved by an Executive order dated June 14, 1867, for the Indians of southern Idaho, including the Bannocks, be designated as the reservation provided for said tribe by the second article of the treaty referred to, dated July 3, 1868. With great respect, your obedient servant, J. D. Cox, Secretary. EXECUTIVE MANSION, July 30, 1869. The within recommendation of the Secretary of the Interior is hereby approved, and within the limits of the tract reserved by Executive order of June 14, 1867, for the Indians of southern Idaho, will be designated a reservation provided for the Baunocks by the second article of the treaty with said tribe of 3d July, 1868. Unratified agreement of 1880.1 U. S. GRANT. The chiefs and head-men of the Shoshones and Bannocks of Fort Hall agreed to cede to the United States a portion of the southern half of their reservation, including Marsh Valley and the settlements therein. By the terms of the agreement the United States, in consideration of such cession, agrees to pay to the Fort Hall Indians the sum of $6,000 per annum for twenty years, in addition to any sums to which said Indians are already entitled by treaty provisions. The United States further agrees to cause the lands of the Fort Hall Reservation to be surveyed and allotted to the said Indians in severalty, in the proportions mentioned in said agreement, and to issue patents therefor with restrictive clauses against alienation, etc., so soon as the necessary laws are passed by Congress. By act of Congress of July 3, 1882, an agreement made July 18, 1881, granting a right of way to the Utah and Northern Railroad, a strip of land not exceeding 100 feet in width, except for certain "depots, stations, sidings, etc., and containing in the whole by actual survey 102 acres, more or less." In consideration the United States to pay $6,000, to be deposited in the United States Treasury to the credit of said Indians, to bear interest at 5 per cent. Said agreement ratified and confirmed. (Sec. 1.) The money to make the aforesaid payment appropriated. (Sec. 2.) The said railway company to pay all damages sustained by the United States or "said Indians individually or in their tribal capacity, or any other Indians lawfully occupying said reservation," by reason of acts of said company or on account of fires originating by or in the construction or operation of such railroad. Damages to be recovered in court. (Sec. 3.) Moneys recovered on account of such damages to tribal or Indian property to be placed to the credit of said Indians and expended by the Secretary of the Interior for their benefit, except in case of an individual Indian, when the amount shall be expended for his sole benefit.2 (Sec. 4.) LEMHI AGENCY. [Post-office address: Lemhi Agency, Idaho.] LEMIII RESERVATION. How established.-By unratified treaty on September 24, 1868; Execu tive order, February 12, 1875. Area and survey.-Contains 64,000 acres, of which 500 are tillable.3 Not surveyed. United States 1 Report of the Commissioner of Indian Affairs, 1850, p. xxx. Statutes, Vol. XXII, p. 148. 3 Report of Indian Commissioner, 1881, p. 306. Acres cultivated.-The Indians had 265 acres under cultivation in 1886.1 Tribes and population.-The tribes living here are the Bannock, Panaiti, Sheepeater, and Shoshone. Total population, 557.2 Location. The Lemhi River runs through the length of the reservation. About one-sixteenth of the land is capable of being cultivated; the rest is mountainous.* The arable land lies along the river valley or cañon 12 miles in extent, and irrigation is needful to crops. Government rations.-Twenty-five per cent. of the Indians were subsisted by Government rations in 1886.5 Mills and employés.-A mill was built in 1882.6 No Indian employés reported. Indian police.-Established in 1878. Indian court of offences.-Not reported. School population, attendance, and support: — School population, as estimated in 1886. Boarding-school accommodation Average attendance... In session (months) Cost to Government 134 20 12 9 $2,584.34 Missionary work.-No missionary work has ever been undertaken here, although urgent demands for it have been made.8 Lemhi Reserve. EXECUTIVE MANSION, February 12, 1875. It is hereby ordered that the tract of country in the Territory of Idaho lying within the following described boundaries, viz: Commencing at a point on the Lemhi River that is due west of a point i mile due south of Fort Lemhi; thence due east about 3 miles to the crest of the mountain; thence with said mountain in a southerly direction about 12 miles to a point due east of Yeanun bridge, on the Lemhi River; thence west across said bridge and Lemhi River to the crest of the mountain on the west side of river; thence with said mountain in a northerly direction to a point due west of the place of beginning; thence due east to the place of beginning, be, and the same hereby is, withdrawn from sale, and set apart for the exclusive use of the mixed tribes of Shoshone, Bannock, and Sheepeater Indians, to be known as the Lemhi Valley Indian Reservation. Said tract of country is estimated to contain about 100 square miles, and is in lieu of the tract provided for in the third article of an unratified treaty made and concluded at Virginia City, Montana Territory, on the 24th of September, 1868. NEZ PERCÉ AGENCY. [Post-office address: Nez Percé Agency, via Lewiston, Idaho.] LAPWAI RESERVATION. How established.-By treaty June 9, 1863. Area and survey.-Contains 746,651 acres, of which 300,000 are classed as tillable. Outboundaries partly surveyed." Acres cultivated.-The Indians have 5,900 acres under cultivation.3 Tribes and population.-The tribes living here are the Nez Percé. To tal population, 1,460.4 Location.-Situated in the northwestern part of Idaho. The Clear Water River flows directly through the reservation, branches out in the North, Middle, and South Forks, greatly benefiting the locations that have been taken in the valley. Government rations.-No Government rations reported. Mills and employés.—In 1862 a saw and grist mill was erected at Lapwai, and in 1879 a similar mill at Kamia. In 1875 Indian apprentices were reported and Indian employés in 1876. The limited sum allowed by the Government to be paid to Indian laborers made it difficult to secure them at the agency, since four times the amount could be earned outside the reservation by Indians skilled and willing to work. Although the time set by the treaty for the maintaining of the mill has expired, the Government has recently put both mills in repair.9 Indian police.-A police force reported.10 Indian court of offences.-Established in 1883.10 The school population, as estimated in 1886". Agency boarding and industrial school accommodation.... Agency boarding and industrial school average attendance11 Cost to Government (agency, boarding, and industrial school).. 375 60 60 5 $10,644. 24 9 Missionary work.-Under the charge of the Presbyterian Board of Foreign Missions. Three churches and three missionaries are reported in 1886. SYNOPSIS OF TREATIES. Treaty between the United States and the Nez Percé Indians, made at Camp Stevens, in the Walla Walla Valley, June 11, 1855. The Nez Percé tribe of Indiaus ceded to the United States the lands lying between the Bitter Root and Blue Mountains and the Palouse River on the north to the month of the Powder River on the south. (Art. 1.) The land reserved for the use and occupation of the Nez Percé and other friendly tribes and bands of Indians in Washington Territory lay between the spurs of the Bitter Root Mountains and crest of the Blue Mountains, including the valley of the Snake River between a point 15 miles below Powder River to a point 10 miles below the month of the 1 Report of Indian Commissioner, 1884, p. 306. 2 Ibid., 1884, p. 259. 3 Ibid., 1886, p. 428. 4 Ibid., 1886, p. 396. Ibid., 1879, p. 55. 6 Ibid., 1862, p. 395. 10 Ibid., 1883, Ibid., 1879, p. 57. 8 Ibid., 1875, p. 261. p. 58. Ibid., 1883, p. 57. Alpo-wa-wi River, the reservation, so far as necessary, to be surveyed and marked out for the exclusive use of the tribe, no white person to be permitted to reside on the reservation without the permission of the tribe, the superintendent, and agent. If any Indians had made substantial improvements on the lands ceded to the United States, sach as fields inclosed and cultivated, houses erected, and which they may be compelled to abandon in consequence of this treaty, such improvements shall be valued under the direction of the President, and payment made there for in money, or improvements of an equal value upon the reservation and no Indian will be required to abandon his improvements until their value in money or other improvements shal have been furnished him. (Art. 2.) The United States agrees to pay $200,000-$60,000 to be expended under the direction of the President the first year after the ratification of the treaty, in providing for the removal of the Indians to the reservation, breaking up and opening farms, build. ing houses, supplying provisions and outfit, the remaining $140,000 to be paid in diminishing instalments of the capital for twenty years, beginning September 1, 1856 These sums to be applied to the use and benefit of the Indians, the Superintendent of Indian Affairs each year to inform the President of the wishes of the Indians in relation thereto. (Art. 4.) The United States agrees to furnish and keep in repair for twenty years two blacksmith shops-one to have a tin-shop and the other a gunsmith shop attached, oue carpenter, and one wagon and plow-maker's shop, and one saw-mill and one flouring mill; to employ one superintendent of farming, two farmers, two blacksmiths, two millers, one tinner, gunsmith, carpenter, and wagon and plow-maker, to instruct the Indians in trades and to assist them; to furnish a hospital and employ a physician. The expense of all these employés, as well as the transportation of annuity goods, to be defrayed by the United States. (Art. 5.) The United States agrees to pay to such head chief as the tribes.may select a salary of $500 for twenty years, and to build and furnish a comfortable home, and to plow and fence 10 acres of land for the use of said chief. (Art. 5.) Within one year after ratification of treaty, United States agrees to erect and furnish suitable buildings for two schools, one of which to be an agricultural and industrial school located at the agency and free to all the children of the tribe. One superintendent and two teachers to be employed for the term of twenty years. (Art. 5.) The President may from time to time cause the whole or portions of the reservation to be surveyed into lots and assign the same to individuals or families, as provided in article 6 of treaty with the Omahas in the year 1854. (Art. 6.) Roads may be run through the reservation, if necessary, for the public convenience, and the use of streams flowing through the reservation is secured to citizens of the United States for rafting purposes and as public highways. Indians to have the right in common with citizens of the United States to travel upon all public highways. (Art. 3.) The exclusive right to fish in streams running through or bordering on the reservation secured to the Indians, also the right to fish at all usual places in the Territory in common with citizens, and of erecting temporary buildings for curing, also to hunt, gather roots and berries, pasture horses and cattle upon open and unoccupied land. (Art. 3.) Indians acknowledge their dependence on the United States and pledge themselves to commit no depredation on citizens, and to surrender offenders and compensate out of annuities any one suffering loss. Also agree to make no war except in self-defense, nor to shelter offenders against the law of the United States. The annuities not to be taken for personal debts. (Arts. 7 and 8.) Any Indian bringing upon the reservation or using liquor may have his or her portion of annuities withheld for such time as the President may determine. (Art. 9.) Proclaimed April 29, 1859.1 1 United States Statutes at Large, Vol. XII, p. 957. |