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allotments and the sale of the remainder of their reservation. As the 

 terms of the Medicine Lodge treaty, under which they hold their present 

 reservation, do not expire until August 25, 1898, the Indians were 

 opposed to any change in tlie existing conditions, but by bringing strong 

 pressure to bear ujron them, an agreement was finally reached by which 

 the reservation was to be thrown open immediately upon the ratification 

 of the contract by Congress. On learning the true nature of the instru- 

 ment, the Indians denounced the interpreter and demanded that their 

 names be stricken from the paper. This being refused, they repudiated 

 in council the action of the cliiefs who had signed, and elected other 

 representatives to go to Washington to jirotest against the whole 



Fig. 54 — A group of Kiowa 



proceeding. The delegates chosen were A'piataO, already mentioned, 

 Apache John (GofiFoil, "Stays-in-tipi") and Piauii'vonit, "Big-looking- 

 glass," for the Kiowa, Apache, and Comanche, respectively, with Captain 

 Scott, U. S. A., and Andres Martinez {A'ndali), an intiueutial Mexican 

 captive among the Kiowa, as interpreter. The delegation arrived in 

 March, 189-4, and made such representation of the matter that no action 

 was taken upon the agreement, and it is still unratified. 



PRESENT CONDITION — AGENTS IN CHAKGE OF CONFEDERATE TRIBES 



Realizing that a change is inevitable in the near future, the Indians 

 are going to work, and with the aid of the money received for tlieir 

 grass lands invested in houses, cattle, and improved breed of horses, the 

 opening of small farms, and the general educational work of the schools, 



