Year: 1872

be made with their cheerful assent next year.
There their habits OF industry and the knowledge
they already possess OF agricultural pursuits will
doubtless enable them to make rapid progress IN
the direction OF sefsupport and civilization.
or plan for the proper organization and settle
ment Of the Indian Territory lying south OF Kansas
The events OF the year nave seemed 10 connrm the
opinion expressed in my last annual report. that
the interests OF both Indians and whites Will be
subserved by organizing that country under q ter
lands into farms Of proper area among the Indians
now thereon, and using all proper influences to
settle other tribes therein, In the same way.


in the work OF civilization while the Indians are
suffered to roam at large over immense reserva-
neighboring tribes. 1t is only as they are led into
habits OF industry and learn the advantages OF
labor that anything can be done to elevate them.
Industry Is the great clyilizer without 1t no race
can be permanently benefited. Efforts should all
tend in that direction which will most effectualy
placing them upon farms and giving them such
material aid and practical instruction as will en-
able them to cultivate their farms proftably. In
vantage Of our form OF life and abandon their
present habits: This must be the work OF time;
but but confidently believe the result viii yndicate
little In the past to encourage the belief
that the adult Indian Of to-day can be
little more than to hold him in restraint, confne
him to smaller reservations, and induce him to re-
main at peace, while we devote the energies OF





generation. The policy OF reducing the area OF
present reservations, and consolidating friendly
Or tS Pc m n as fne st step
farms. We have now under control Of the Indian
ONCE tribes In every stage OF civilization, from the
with their schools churches and written language,
to the hostile tribes OF Arizona which know
nothing Of the habits Of civilization. The former
are, no doubt, as well fitted as they will ever be-
come In their present mode OF life for settlement
upon farms OF proper size. The latter can
ton, the frst step toward which, as has
been said, Is confning them to smaller reservations
than they at present occupy. This subject has
been presented to the various delegations which
have visited the East, and by the several commits
sons to the Indian tribes their homes. 1t has been
them are not vet saiilcienty convinced OF the ad-
vantage and necessity Of an agricultural life to ap
preciate the Importance OF removal, those who
have made some progress In farming have ex-
pressed a Willingness to adopt the suggestion, II
some OF their leading chiefs be allowed to visit
new homes. judicious management viii, in few
years, secure the removal OF large portion OF the
tribes east OF the Rocky Mountains to the Indian
Territory.


cannot regard the rapid disappearance Of the
game from its FORMER haunts as q matter prejudi-
contrary, as they become convinced that they can
no longer rely upon the supply OF game for their
support will they turn to the more reliable source
OF subsistence furnished at the agencies and en-
dsavor to so live that that supply will be regularly
dispensed A few years OF cessation from the
chase VIII Ccnu TO uHJ CneH IOr ILelT lOTule IuOuc
OF liie and they will be the more readily led into
new directions, toward Industrial pursuits and
peaceful habits.


In the present imperfect system Of detailed re.
ports from agents as to the condition Of the tribes
In regard to their progress in industry, 1t Is dlfl-
cult to furnish any statement in figures as to the
condition of all the tribes. The following state
ment, however, will show, the progress made by
twenty tribes in the Southern Superintendency
during the past four years in the work OF farming
and stock raising. They do not include the larger
and more civilized nations-Cherokees, Creeks,
Choctaws and Chickasaws-occupying the Indian