Wyandottes. The Wyandottes number at the present time 222 souls. Ten years ngo there were 435. They oceupy a reserva tion of 20,000 acics, lying between the Sencca and Shawne res- ervations. This tribe was located for nany years in Nortli-western Ohio, whence they removed, pursuant to the tcrms of the treaty made with thcm in 1842, to a reservation within the present lim- its of Kansas. By the treaty made with them in 1867 their pres- ent rescrvation was set apart for those members of the tribe who desired to maintain their tribal organization, instcad of becoming citizens, as provided in the treaty of 1855. They are poor, and havin no annuitics and but little force of character, aro making slight progress in industry or civilization. They have bcen latc- ly joined by nenbers of the tribe, who, under the treaty, acccpted eitizenship. These, desiing to resume their relations with their people, have been again adopted into the tribe

Pottawattomiea.-Thesc Indians, who formeriy resided in Michi gan and Indiana, whence they removed to Kansas, before going down into the Indian Territory numbered about 1600. They have, under the provisions of the treaty of 1861 made with the tribe, then residing in Kansas, become citizens of the United States. By the terms of said treaty they received allotments of land, and their proportion of tlhe tribul funds, with the exception of their share of certain non-paying State stocks, amounting to $67,000, hcld in teust by the Secretary of the Interior for the Pottawattomics. Hav- ing disposed of their lands, they removed to the Indian Territory where a reservation thirty miles square, adjoining the Seminole Reservation on the west, had been, by the trcaty of 1867, provided for suclı as should elect to maintain their tribal orgunization. It having been decided, however, by the Department that, as they had all beconie citizens, there was conscquently no part of the tribe remaining which could lay clain, under treaty stipulations, to the reservation in the Indian Territory, legislation was had by Congress ut its last session Act approved May 28d, 1873-by which these citizcn Pottawattomies werc allowed allotments of land within the tract originally assigned for their use as a tribe, to the extent of 160 acres to cach head of family, and to cach other person twenty-one years of age, and of eighty acres to each minor. Most if not all of them are capable of taking care of themselvcs; and many of them are well-educated, intelligent, and thrifty farmers.

Absentee Shaonees.-These Indians, numbering 663, separated about thirty years ago from the main tribe, tlen located in Kan