Of how they lived, and where, during the winter following this fight, there is little record. In the next year's reports the Chey ennes are said to be very anxious for a new treaty, which will as can dwell safely. "They sign to them a conntry in which they said they had learned a lesson last summer in their fight with General Sumner that it was useless to contend with the white man, who would soon with his villages occupy the whole pra rie. They wanted peace; and as the buffalo-their principal dependence for food and clothing (which even now they were compelled to seek many miles from home, where their natural enemies, the Pawnee and Osage, roaned), would soon disappear entirely, they hoped their Great Father, the white chief at Washington, would listen to them, and give them a home where they might be provided for and protected against the encroachments of their white brothers, until at least they had been taught to cultivate the soil and other arts of civilized life. They have often desired ploughs and hoes, and to he taught their use."

The next year's records show the Government itself aware that some measures must be taken to provide for these troublesome wild tribes of the prairie: almost more time of peace than in time of war is the problem of the dis position to be made of them. Agents and snperintendents alike are perplexing in pressing on the Government's attention the facts and the bearing of the rapid settling of the Indian lands by the whites; the precariousness of pcaccful relations; the dangers of Indian wars The Indians themselves are deeply anxious and disturbed

They have heard that all of the Indian tribes to the east ward of them have ceded their lands to the United States, cx cept small reservations; and hence, by an Indian's reasoning, in a few years these tribes will emigrate farther west, and, as a matter of necessity, ocenpy the hunting-grounds of the wild tribes."