vided for subsisting the Sioux on a stated ration until they should become self-supporting; for furnishing schools, and all necessary aid and instruction in agriculture and the mechanical arts, and for the allotment of lands in severalty."

In accordance with this act, a eommission was sent to select a location on the Missouri River for the two new Sioux agencies (the Red Cloud and Spotted Tail)

"For the former the site cho8en is the junction of Ycllow Medicine and Missouri rivers, and at that point ageney build ings have just been orccted," says the Report of the Indian Burcau for 1877, "For the latter the old Ponca Reserve was decidcd on, where the agency buildings, storehouses, one hun- dred and fifty Indian homes, and five hundred acres of cnlti vated fields, left vacant by the Poncas, offer special advantages for prescnt quarters."

The commissioner says: "The removal of fourteen thousand Sioux Indians at this scason of the ycar, a distance of three hundred miles from their old agencics in Nebraska to their new 77 quarters near the Missouri BRiver, is not a pleasant matter to contemplate. Neither the prescnt Sccretary of the Interior nor the present Commissioner of Indian Affairs is responsible for the movement, but they have carried out the law faithfully though reluctantly. The removal is being made in accordancc with the Act of August 15th, 1876. It is proper to say here that I cannot but look on the necessity thus imposed by law on the executive branch of the Government as an unfortunate one, and the consequences ought to be remedied as possible.

"Let us for a moment consider that the Spotted Tail Agency was in 1871 on the west bank of the Missonri River, where the apeedily as whites became exccedingly troublesomc, and the river afforded abundant facilities for the introduction of intoxicating liquors In 1874 the Red Clond and Spotted Tail agencics were removcd to what a subsequent surrey proved to be the State of Nebras