The governor also says that in the past year the Poncas lare paid out of their auuily money for all the improvcments whieh had been made on lands occupied by certain white scttlers, who ejected from their new reservation by the terms of the last treaty

In the report for 1869 we read that the Ponca school has been discontinucd for want of funds." The Departnent ear- nestly recommends an appropriation of $25,000 to put it in operation again. The new Governor of Dakota scconds the recommendation, and regrets to say that, "for the enlighten ment of the 35,000 Indians embraeed in the Dakota Superin tendency, there is not one school in operation."

In 1870 a were appropriation of $5000 was made by the Depart- ment from a general educational fund, for the purposc of re suming this sehool. The coudition of the Poncas now is, on the whole, encouraging; they ly anxions to learn the arts by which thcy may become self supporting, and conform to the usages of white men the comparatively snall advantages that have becn afforded them, their advancement has been very great." are "not only willing, but extretue With

In the summer of 1869 they bailt for themselves sixtcen very comfortable log-houscs; in the summer of 1870 they built forty-four more ; with their annuity money they bonght cook stoves, cows, aud useful implements of labor. They worked in their crops, but lost them all by drought, aud are in real danger of starvation if the Govern All this while they sce hcrds of most assidnously in putting ment does not assist them. cattle driven across their reservation to feed the lately hostile Sioux tlour, eoffee, sugar, tobacco, by the wagon-load, distrib- uted to them-while their own always peaccable, always loyal, long-suffering tribe is digging wild roots to eat, and in aetual danger of starvation, Nevertheless they are not discouraged, knowing that but for the drought they would have had ample food from their farms, and they make no attempts to retaliate