838 THE GHOST-DANCE RELIGION [eth.ann.14 



in April, while in fact, it may lie but skin, horns, and bones, and weigh scarcely 600 

 pounds, while he has done bis best to care for them during the severity of a Dakota 

 winter. The Indians do not understand why they should be made to suffer all this 

 shrinkage and loss, and it is a useless and humiliating attempt to explain. The 

 agent is not to blame. The department of Indian affairs can do only the best it can 

 with a limited and tardy appropriation. The remedy in the matter of food supply 

 seems to be: A sufficient and earlier appropriation of funds. All contracts for the 

 beef supply should call for delivery when required by the agent. The agent should 

 be allowed a percentage of wastage to cover unavoidable loss in issue by shrinkage 

 and wastage. The government should bear this loss and not the Indians. 



Complaint 1: No remarks. 



Complaint 2: Is before Congress. 



( 'omplaint, I : Should be remedied by adequate home schools. 



Complaint 5: Suggests its proper remedy. 



Complaint 0: No remarks. 



Complaint 7: Can be remedied only by earlier appropriations. 



Complaints: This reservation is not agricultural land. The climate makes it a 

 grazing country. The Indians now can raise cattle successfully and care for them 

 in winter. All attempts at general farming must result in failure on account of 

 climatic conditions. 



In connection with complaint 9, I respectfully invite attention to tabular state- 

 ment accompanying this report, marked B, showing rations as issued up to Decem- 

 ber (i in present fiscal year and amount required to make the issues according to 

 article 5, treaty of February 27, 1877, and special attention to columns II and 7 therein. 



Appended to this report, marked C, is an extract copy of treaties of 1877 and 1808. 



In submitting this report. I desire to commend the administration of the affairs of 

 this agency, as it has appeared under my daily observation since August, 1887. So 

 iiir as this reservation is concerned, the present unrest among the Indians is not 

 attributable to any just cause of complaint against the former or present agent or 

 employees; nor is it due entirely or largely to failure on the part of the government 

 to fulfill treaty obligations. 



Very respectfully, your obedient servant, 



.1. 11. Hukst, 

 Captain, Twelfth Infantry, Commanding Post. 



APPENDIX C— EXTRACT COPT— TREATIES OF 1877 AND 1868 

 Treaty of 1S77 



Article 3. The said Indians also agree that they will hereafter receive all annuities provided by the 

 said treaty of istis, and all subsistence and supplies which may be provided for them under the present 

 or :m\ future act of < !ongress, at such points and places on the said reservation and in the vicinity uf 

 the Missouri river as the President of the United States shall designate. 



Article 5. In consideration of the foregoing cession of territory and rights, and upon full compli- 

 ance with each and every obligation assumed by the said Indians, the United States agree to provide 

 all necessary aid to assist l lie said 1 mlians in the work of civilization ; to furnish to t In-m schools and 

 instruction in mechanical and agricultural arts, as provided fur by the treat \ of 1868. Also to pro- 

 vide the said Indians with subsistence consisting of a rat inn fur each individual of a pound and a 



ball' of beii' u»r in lieu thereof, one-half pound of bacon), one 1 1 ill I I ud of 1 1 our, and one- li all pound 



of corn : and fur every one hundred rations, lour pounds of coffee, eight pounds of sugar, and three 

 pounds of beans, or in lieu of said articles the equivalent thereof, in the disrretion of the Commis- 

 sioner of Indian A Hairs, Such rations, or so much thereof as may In necessary , shall be continued 

 until the Indians are able to support themselves. Rations shall in all cases be issued to the head 

 of each separate family; ami whenever schools shall have been provided by the government tor 

 said Indians, no rations shall be issued for children between the ages of si\ ami fourteen years (the 

 sick and infirm excepted), unless such children shall regularly attend school. Whenever the said 



Indians shall be Located upon lands which are suitable for Cultivation, rations shall be issued onh to 



the persons and families of those persons who labor (the aged sick and infirm excepted); and as an 

 incentive to industrious habits the Commissioner of Indian Affairs may provide that persons be fur- 

 nished in | >ay n lent for their labor such other necessary articles as aro requisite for civilized life. . . . 

 ARTICLE 8. The provisions of the said treaty of 1868, except as herein modified, shall continue in 

 full force. . . . 



