Press and daily Dakotaian. (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1880-1889, 1883-12-05
farming should receive SO PER y..r, or

farming should receive $40 per year, or
$40 more than If he continued to roam
over the reservation. The treaty Of 1858
provides that schools shall b. maintainsd
at government expense for every thirty
scholars; also that the United states
would furnish to each family that should
commence farming one good Amerioep
COW and one good weil-broken pair of
American oxen. The treaty Of 1875 pro-
vides that the government should erect
comfortable houses for such OF the In.
dians AZ should desire TO farm. Il Il
very evident that the great obiest IN
making the treaty was to induce tho In.
dians to settle on farms and become
farmers But little effort has been made
to comply with the conditions Of these
treaties on the part of the government.
have shown in another part of this 70.
port that there is due the Sioux, under
the provisions for the support Of schools,
$l,49l.600. The Indians have built
themselves on tho reservation 2,5l9
houses. The government should have
constructed these houses, which the In.
dams have constructed enthusiastically
without government aid.
This item alone. allowing $40 for each
honse, which il as little - they can
be built for. leaves the government
indebted to the Indians the sum of. n. .lse sm
Ii the government had furnlahed one
COW and "ne yoke Of oxen to each
family so locating. there would have
been expended on this item alone. s0ysO
The extra $40 TO each Indian locating
One hundred dollars for cash famii, 'N'
10 locating would require. ......... 7sl,o0O
Twenty-hve dollars for three years,
equal TO $75 one year ................ 1o008
Or a total Of. J. sasa1
perly be charged to their account. N7,l10
Leaving /. total Of. :.......... 80. 2ol2l7s
To this must be added the sum due on
account OF failure to furnish schools
according to the treaty.............. l,lo1 900
Making total of................ s,O,776
Besides this the government il under
obligations to build houses for al Indi.
ans not having houses, and furnish each
with yoke of oxen, COW, seeds, TO-, as
the Indians shall be entitled to, by loca-
ting on land of their own. The propos-
ed agreement provides for the delivery
of 25,0O0 COWS and 900 bulls, of total
value of not less than $850,OOO. The
provision for the continuance Of the sp-
preparation for the support of schools
for an additional sixteen yeas will re-
qulre an annual appropriation of about
500. or, in the total, about $l7O, 600,
or total under the present agreement
of S2.65O,000 for these two items alone;
other provisions of tho agreement viii
require an additional sum. It is doubt
full whether the Indians will be bene.
fitted by these large appro-
priations. If the conditions of the
treaties of 1868 and 1876. together with
these in the present agreement, arc
carried out in good faith on the part of
the government, the Indians will need
no further aid from the government, and
can readily be made self supporting
within the next ten years. The total
annual appropriation for these Indians
for the fiscal year was about s., zoo, 900.
the most of which is for subsistence, and
its expenditure does little for
the Indian except to keep him alive.