they might take that rest so much required for the recupera tion of their physical natures," the Government had made for that "rest"' and "recnperation," surely "mnch required" and fairly earned. Not onc dollar had been appropriated for establishing them in their new home; not building had been put up wilderness without one Now let us see what provision This people provision of any kind for their shelter. was sct down in a one

It is a matter of astonislinent to me," says Agent Howard (p. 100 of this "Report"), "that the Governinent should have ordered the removal of the Ponca Indians from Dakota to the Indian Territory without having first made some provision for their settlement and comfort. Before their removal was carried into effect an appropriation should have been made by Con- to have located them in their new home, by gress sufficien building a comfortable home for the occupancy of every family of the tribe made by Congress except of a sum little more than sufficient to remove them; and the result is that these people have been placed on an uncultivated reservation, to live in their tents as best they may, and await further legislative action."

This journal of Mr. Howard's is the best record that can ever be written of the sufferings of the Poncas in their removal from their hones. It is "highly colored;" but no one, however much it may be for his interest to do so, can call it "a sensational fabrication," or can discredit it in the smallest particular, for it is an "official reeord," autliorized and endorsed by being published in the "Annual Report" of the Secretary of the In- As the case now is, no appropriation has becn terior is still in Indian Territory,

The remainder of the Ponca tri awaiting anxiously the result of the efforts to restore to them their old homes, and to establish the fact of their indisputable

legal rigt to them.^[1]