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how to take care of themselves according to the ideas of civilized men. 

 Whether the Indians will be happier after they become civilized is au 

 open question. They certainly were very happy when they were at 

 liberty to roam about as they lileased iu search of the buffalo herds, 

 and enjoyed themselves as well as any human beiugs could while riding 

 over the plains, lords of the ,wide-stretching, grassy prairies. They 

 acknowledged no master, and moved about from place to place through 

 the long summer days. This is now changed. The Sioux are not 

 allowed to go south of the Platte River to hunt the buffalo, nor are 

 those who are near the agency allowed to leave their reservations except 

 in small numbers. The late battles which our soldiers have had with 

 them on the Powder, Eose Bud, and Little Big Horn Eivers were 

 to drive them to the reservations, and make them stay there. The 

 Ogalallas have little gardeua directly along the banks of White 

 Earth River, where they are trying to raise something; but it is in a 

 feeble sort of a way, and if any great good is expected from their farm- 

 ing operations they must be taken to some place where they can have 

 ample fields, with good plows and horses. Some of them will make 

 good farmers, as they take an interest iu farming, while others will only 

 surrender their wild ways with their lives. 



I am convinced that the number of Sioux is greater than has gener- 

 ally been supposed, and the strength they have been able to bring into 

 the field against our troops has astonished every one. Thousands of 

 warriors have been seen mounted and armed, resembling more the 

 eftbrts of a well-trained army than the feeble attempt of a small nation 

 of savages. I have been at some pains to ascertain the whole number of 

 individuals in the Dakota nation, and find at the different agencies the 

 following result : 

 Cheyenne River agency in Dakota: 



Two Kettle, Sans Arc, Minuecoujou, and Blackfeet Sioux. . 7, 58G 

 Crow Creek, Dakota: 



Lower Yanktonnais Sioux ^ 1, 200 



Lower Brule Sioux ] , 800 



Devil's Lake agency, Dakota: 



Sissetons, Warpetons, and Cut Heads 800 



Flandreau agency, Dakota: 



Santee Sioux 350 



Red Cloud agency, Nebraska: 



Ogalallas 9,130 



Sisseton agency, Dakota: 



Sissetons and Warpetons 1,807 



Spotted Tail agency, Nebraska: 



Upper Briiles, Lower Briiles, Northern Brules, and Minne- 



conjous 9, GIO 



Standing Rock agency, Dakota : 



Upper and Lower Yanktonnais, Uncpapa, and Blackfeet 



Sioux 7, 322 



