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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 an 

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

 liberty to roam about as they pleased in search of the buffalo herds, 

 and enjoyed themselves as well as any human beings 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. Tbe 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, Rose Bud, and Little Big Horn Rivers were 

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

 Ogalallas have little gardens 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 fann- 

 ing operations they must be taken feo 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 in 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, aud 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 

 efforts 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 hud at the different agencies the 

 following result : 

 Cheyenne River agency in Dakota: 



Two Kettle, Sans Arc, Minneconjou, and Blackfeet Sioux . . 7, 580 

 Crow Creek, Dakota: 



Lower Yanktonnais Sioux , 1, 200 



Lower Brule Sioux - 1, 800 



Devil's Lake agency, Dakota: 



Sissetons, Warpetous, and Cut Heads . . S00 



Flandreau agency, Dakota: 



Santee Sioux 350 



Red Cloud agency, Nebraska: 



Ogalallas 0, 130 



Sisseton agency, Dakota: 



Sissetons and Warpetous 1, 807 



Spotted Tail agency, Nebraska: 



Upper Brules, Lower Brules, Northern Brutes, and Miune- 



coujous v 0, 010 



Standing Rock agency, Dakota : 



Upper and Lower Yanktonnais, Uncpapa, and Blackfeet 



Sioux 7, 322 



