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United States. Office of Indian Affairs / Annual report of the commissioner of Indian affairs, for the year 1865
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Northern superintendency, pp. 397-434
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exhibit of-the present condition-of the various tribes embraced within tho: northern superintendency." , , The brief period which has intervened between the date of my appointr ment and the lime designated for the rendition of this report has neces- sawily rendered it exceedingly difficult to collect and embody all theiaformA. tio which it-is desirable should be presented in such a paper. Few tribes of Indians are embraced within this superintendency-at:thee present time. The aggregate population of the tribes, according to the most reliable data at my command, is 17,182, as follows: Sioux, (Brul and Ogallalla,) Upper Platte agency...7, 865 Arapahoes, Upper Platte agency...1, 00 Oheyennes, Upper Platte agency................. 20 Pawnees, Pawnee agency...............................Go.21 80 Winnebagoes, Winnebago agency.............1, 900 Omabas, Omaha agency............... 1, 000 Sacs and Foxes, (of Missouri,) Great Nemaha agency ..95 lowas, of Missouri, Great Nemaha agency.". 294 Ottoes and Missourias, Ottoe and Missouria agency...............18I Total number........................................17, 182 These tribes are embraced within six agencies. I subjoin, a list of the agencies, with the names of the agents and their post office address: Upper Platte agency, Vital Jarrot agent, Fort Laramie, Dakota Territory. Pawn-e agency, Daniel H. Wheeler agent, Genoa, Nebraska Territory. Winnebago agency, St. A. D. Balcombe agent, Omadi, NebraskaTerri- tory. Omaha agency, Robert W. Furnas agent, Omaha agency, Nebraska Ter- ritory. Great Nemaha agency, John A. Burbank agent, Mohart, Nebraska Ter- ritory. Ottoe and Missouria agency, William Dailyr agent, Dennison, Nebraska Territory. UPPER PLATTE AGENCY. The Indians embraced within this agency consist of the Brul6 and Ogal- lalla Sioux, the Arapahoes, and the Cheyennes. They numbered in the ag- gregate, in 1862, (since which time no reliable census has been taken,) 10,982 souls. They have at no time within the past ten years, I believe, been confined to any particular reservation or locality, but have been permitted to roam at will over a vast district of country, subsisting chiefly by the hunt. These Indians have inhabited the country adjacent to the headwaters of the Platte river, and contiguous to the great overland route between the Missouri river and the Pacific coast. Frequent outrages were perpetrated 'y them'upon emigrants, stage passengers, and telegraph operators during the latter part of 1863, but it was hoped that these were the work of irre- sponsible bands, maddened by liquor, not unfrequently sold to them by out- side traders, and that the tribes would eventually disavow afid punish these outlaws, and mlaintain their former relations of amity'and good will towards the government and the people. But this hope has proved groundless. Em- boldened by exemption from the swift and certain punishment whicbh should ailways follow such acts of wanton cruelty andlawlessness, and believing, no' dibt,-that the general-government, by: reason of-te continuance ofa great RL NORTHERN-UIOWTJ1wDB14 Y.-
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