with a view of satisfying themselves as to the desirableness of the Their wishes in this respect should be granted early next season, that their removal and settlement may be effected location. during the coming year. Notwithstanding their willingness to have shown but little interest in education. -Congress makes an appropriation of $75,000 annually for goods and labor, they provisions, for their instruction in agricultural and mechanical pursuits, for salaries of employe's, and for the education of their children, etc.
MONTANA.
The Indian tribes residing within the limits of Montana are the and Piegans, the Gros Ventres of the Prairie, the Assinaboines, the Yauktonais, Santee and Teton (so-called) Sioux, a portion of the Northern Arapahoes and Cheyennes, the River Crows, the Mountain Crows, the Flat-heads, Pend d'Oreilles and Kootenays, and a few Shoshones, Bannocks, and Sheep-eaters, Blackfeet, Bloods, in the aggregate about 32,412. They are all, or nearly native to the regions now occupied by them respectively. The following table will exhibit the population of each of these numbering all, tribes, as nearly as the same can be ascertained
Blackfeet, Bloods, and Piegans Assiuaboines Gros Ventres Santee, Yanktouais, Uncpapa, and Cut-head Sioux, at Milk River Agency River Crows Mountain Crows Flat-heads Pend .320 d'Oreilles Kootenays Shoshones, Bannocks, and Sheep-eaters Roving Sioux, commonly called Teton Sioux, including those gathered during 1872 at and near Fort Peck (largely estimated)
Estimated total
7500 4790 1100 2625 1240 2700 460 1000 677 8000 30,412
The number of Northern Cheyennes and Arapahoes roaming in Montana, who, it is believed, have co-operated with the Sioux un der Sitting Bull, in their depredations, is not known it is proba bly less than 1000.
The Blackfeet, Bloods, and Piegans (located at the Blackfeet Agency, on the Teton River, about seventy-five miles from Fort Benton), the Gros Ventres, Assinaboines, the River Crows, about 1000 of the Northern Arapahoes and Cheyennes, and the Santee and Yankton Sioux (located at the Milk River Agency, on the Milk River, about one hundred miles from its mouth), occupy