St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1886-12-18
NORTHWESTERN REDS.
Recommendations That Are to be Made for
the Care of Our Indian
Neighbors.
Annuities Under Old Treaties - The
Amount to be Sent to Zach
Agency.
How the Million Dollars Approprfa
ated for the Sioux is to be
Distributed.
An Increase of $50, 900 for the Sup.
port of the Indian and Indus
trial Schools.
Special to the Globe.

! Opeclai TO the GlODe.
! WASHINGTON, Dec. 17.-The Indian
bill for this year is likely to be less in total
in the aggregate than it was last year as
the estimates are only about $50. 900 in ex-
cess of the amount appropriated in the first
session of the Forty ninth congress, which
was S., 52S, 573 The total amount rec
commended for appropriation this session is
S5,60S, S73. No material increase is made
in the pay of Indian agents, but additional
helpers are recommended at the various
agencies, so that the total amount to be
paid for the sixty-one agents is $4,000,
as against $50, 800 last year. The recon-
mendations of important interest in the
| Northwest contemplate very few changes.
The usual annual appropriations are to be
made for the Chippewas, of the Mississippi,
and various other tribes There will be
| $4,000 paid to the Chippewas. of the
Mississippi, under the treaty of 1S47, made
with Hole-in- the Day, and for support of
their school at White Earth. The Chip.
pewas, Pillagers and Winnebagoshish bands
will receive their usual installments of an
nuities under the treaty of 1855, and the
goods and supplies provided for by that
treaty also amount to S22, 666. The Crows,
of Montana. will receive in all SIP. 500, Of
which $50, 900 is paid, as provided for in
the treaty of 1880, as one of the
twenty-five annual installments. The
rest applies upon wooden clothing, coats,
hats, shirts, socks, dresses, hose and
calico for men and women, and the pay Of
physician, teachers and helpers on their
reservation. The Arcparees, Gros Ventres
and Mandans will receive in goods pro-
visions and various service, including med,
| Of
S35 GOO This will be expended in the Fort
Berthold agency. The ASSinaboines receive
but $50. 900 at Fort Belknap. The Black
feet, Bloods and Piegans receive $4,000 at
the Blackfeet agency. The Flatheads, OF
Carlos band, at the Flathead agency, None
tana, will get SIS, 900. The other Flats
heads and confederated tribes at the same
agency will receive $10,0 The GroS
| Ventres will receive their supplies at two
different agencies, Fort Belknap and Fort
| Berthold
FORT PECK GETS A PLUM.
| The Indians at Fort Peck agency will re-
ceive S110, 900 in goods, provisions, agricul-
turaI implements and service. The Incl
dental expenses of the Indian service in
Montana. covering the expenses of agents,
calls for SIS, 900. This is divided as follow:
To the Fort Peck and Crow agencies. 81. $50
each; Flathead and Blackfeet. each 81, 600;
Gros Ventres $500. For the support of $50
pupils in the JOcko reservation in Montana,
S22, 500 is to be appropriated. This allows
$3.50 per annum to each pupil. This is one
of the worthy appropriations which was
originally secured, and has been from time
to time increased through the persistent
and patient efforts of Father Stephan.
| The Sioux of the various tribes,
| including the Santes in Nebraska.
will receive $1,41S, 500, Of this
$780, 600 is the eighteenth Of the thirty
installments provided for by the treaty Of
| 1863 and it is to be expended for clothing
for men and women Of the tribes. One
hundred thousand dollars is the eighteenth
of thirty installmentS TO purchase such ar
tlcles as the secretary of the interior thinks
desirable, at the rate of $40 per head for
| 10000 roaming Indians. Fifty thousand
dollars is to purchase such things as the
secretary of the interior thinks ought to be
purchased at $40 per head fOr2 500 Indians
engaged in agricultural pursuits. Ten
thousand four hundred dollars is for the
pay of physicians, teachers carpenters,
millers and farmers. Twenty thousand
! dollars is for the pay of additional en-
/ ployes at the various agencies. Six thou
sand dollars is to pay for the industrial
schools at the Santee Sioux and Crow
Greek agencies. For the subsistence of the
Sioux and for the purpose of civilizng
them, according to treaty of 1877, 81. 100,-
600 is appropriated. These amounts are
distributed among the different tribes Of
Sioux as follows:
HOW IT IS DISTRIBUTED.
At Flandreau, S26, 1874; Santee, S74, 08S;
Standing Rock, 1928. 22s; Lower Brule,
S142 33s; Rosebud, 1916, 500; Pine Ridge,
1921. 800; Cheyenne River. 1902. $50; Crow
Creek, 500, S33. The ankton Sioux re-
ceive 100000, of which $25, 600 is the
ninth of ten installmentS called for by the
treaty of 1858. and $35, 900 for the support
of the tribe, which now numbers 2,00G
Sioux. They have heretofore been pro-
vided for in appropriations under the gen,
eral treaty of 1868. The $50, 600 will be-
paid out at the Yankton agency. The
! Chippewas will receive at the La Pointe
agency Wis, 81, 500 for agricultural and
educational purposes, and payment of en-
| plOyes. The ChippewaS, OF Red Lake,
| and the Pembina tribe will receive $4,000
| at the White Earth agency. in Minnesota.
| The Chippewas on the White Earth reser-
walton, which include the Otter Tail, Pilla-
ger. Pembina and Mississippi Chippewa In
dams, to assist them in farming, will re-
ceive $40, 1000. The Turtle Mountain Chip
pewas receive 81. 900, to be spent at DEVILS
Lake agency, in Dakota. The Menominees
in Wisconsin will receive $4,000 to help
them with their schools and farming. The
Sioux, of DEVILS Lake. will receive Sc, 900.
This money will be spent at Devils Lake
agency The general and incidental ex-
penses of the Indian service in Dakota calls
| for So, 900, $500 each for Yanktnn, Corn
Creek, Standing Rock, Cheyenne river,
Fort BerthoId, Sisseton. Devils Lake,
Rosebud, Pine Ridge and Lower Brule
agencies. The Sacs and Foxes OF the Mis-
sissippi receive SOL. 900 under the treaty Of
| 1887. This money is for the Sacs and
Foxes in Iowa and the Indian Territory.
The Sacs and Foxes of the Missouri, at the
Great Nemaha agency, Nebraska, receive
SS,O70 The Iowas at the Great Nemaha
agency receive S2.S75
There is appropriated for the trans
portation Of Indian supplies this year,
S275, 900, an increase of $50. 600. There is
an increase for Indian police of $1,000, the
amount recommended this year being
800, 900. No increase is made IN the ag-
gregate appropriation for the pay of farmers
| or the expense of purchasing supplies nor
for surveying and allotting lands, the
amount for this latter purpose this year,
$50. 900, as it was last year. There is an
| increase of $S5, 900 III the aggregate appro-
priation for the support of the Indian and
| industrial schools, the total this year being
$500. goo.
! Cotton.
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