The New York herald., 1868-01-10
indian Trenty CommIssioners' Repor.

We have received copy Of the long but
interesting and important report Of the Com
missioners appointed under the act of Con-
gress approved on the goth Of July, 1867,
"to establish peace with certain hostile
Indian tribes" BY that act tho Commits
sioners were authorized to call together
tho chiefs and head men Of such bands of In
dians as were then waging war, to ascertain
their reasons for hostility, and, should it be
found advisable, to make treaties with them
having the following objocts:-First, to re-
move, If possible, the causes of war; second,
to secure, so far as practicable, our frontier
settlements and the safe building Of our rail-
roads towards the Pacific; and, third, to sug
gest or inaugurite some plan for the tiviliza-
ton of the Indians.
The full account which the Commissioners
the principal Indian chiefs, and Of the investi-
cations which, according to instructions, they
made relative TO districts suitable for reserva-
tions of sufficient area to receive all the hostile
tribes east of the Rocky Mountains, and of the
recent Indian war, its causes and its thrilling
incidents, has already been anticipated by the
correspondents of the NEw YORK HERALD. But
the information which 1t presents in official
form will thus bring again to the attention Of
Congress and the country tie momentous
question, in which both national honor and
interests are invoived-What shall be done
with the Indians!
The history OF tho Indian war, which ba,
IoJ tarv akaI Ia t,,.t
q continuation OF the sad record OF the wrongs
to which the red man has been subjected for
two hundred years by the white invader OF his
hunting grounds. The Commissioners unite In
at.ributing the late Indian outbreak to viola
ton Of treaties on our part They discover, for
instance, that, in the burning Of the Cheyenne
village by General Hancock, he acted on
reports by Major Douglass, which subsequently
turned out 10 be entirely false.
The Commissioners recommend that two re-
servations bo exclusively set apart for Indian
occupation. One Of these they would assign
to the Cherokees, Creeks, Choctaws, Chicka-
saws, Seminoles, Osages, Wachitas, Kiowas,
Comanches. Cheycnnes, Arapahocs, Apaches,
Pottowotom,es, the various tribes Of Kansas
Indians aud the Nayajoes Of New Mexico, num-
bering in all S6,435. This reservation should
be bounded north by Kansas, east by Arkansas
and Missouri, south by Texas and west by TIE
1O0lh or l0lst meridian. The other, bounded
north by the 46th parallel, east by the Missis-
sipp river, south by Nebraska and west by the
10ath meridian, they would assign to the Yanc-
ton Sioux, Poncas, Lower Brulcs, Lower Yanc-
tonais, Two Kettles, Black Feet, Minneconyons,
Umpquas, Ogallulas, Upper Yanctonais, Sans
Arcs, Arickarces, Gros Yentres, Man
dams, Assiniboins, Flatheads, Upper Pend
d'Orcilies, Kootenoys, Picgans, Bloods, Crows,
WinncLagoos Omahas, Brule ami 0gallula
Sioux, Northern Cheyennes, Northern Arapa-
hoes and santee Sioux, numbering b4,l26.
The Kansas tribes, however, and the Winnie
bagoes, Omahas, Ottocs, Santce Sioux, end
perhaps other tribes, the Commissioners think
it may be advisable to let remain where they
arc and finally become Incorporated, tho
former with the citizens Of Kansas and the lat
ter with those OF Nebraska.
they also recommend that hcaceforth the
stipulated annuihes .shall be paid TO the
Indians, mot In money, but in agricultural
implements, food and clothing; that as, aside
from nobler considerations, "it is cheaper to
civilizs than 70 kill" rodoubled efforts should