364 CHEROKEE NATION OF INDIANS. 
This would give an increase for the latter from 40.47 cents to 47.49 per 
acre. The adoption of this standard was therefore recommended to 
the President and was by him approved and ratified.! 
In addition to the Osages, Kansas, and Pawnees there have been re- 
moved to the Cherokee lands west of 96° the Poneas, a portion of the 
Nez Percés, and the Otoes and Missourias. 
Poncas.—An appropriation of $25,000 was made by act of Congress 
approved August 15, 1876,’ for the removal of the Poneas, whenever 
their assent should be‘obtained. After much trouble and a threatened 
resort to military force, their assent to remove to the Indian Territory 
was secured in the beginning of 1877.5 They came overland from Ne- 
braska in two different parties and encountered great hardships, but 
finally reached the Territory, where they were temporarily located on 
the northeast portion of the Quapaw reserve, a few miles from Baxter 
Springs, Kansas.? 
They were not satisfied with the location, which was in many respects 
unsuitable, especially in view of its proximity to the white settlements. 
They were, therefore, permitted to make another selection, which they 
did in the Cherokee country, on the west bank of the Arkansas, includ- 
ing both banks of the Salt Fork at its junction with the parent stream. 
To this new home they removed in 1878,° but it was not until 1881° 
that Congress made an appropriation out of which to pay the Cherokees 
for the land so occupied. This tract embraces 101,894.31 acres, for 
which the price of 47.49 cents per acre, fixed by the President, was paid. 
Nez Percés.—The Nez Percés, previously alluded to, are the remnant 
of Chief Joseph’s band, who surrendered to General Miles in 1877. 
They were at first removed from the place of their surrender to Fort 
Leavenworth, Kansas, where they arrived in November of that year as 
prisoners of war, to the number of 431. Congress having made pro- 
vision’ for their settlement in the Indian Territory, a reservation was 
selected for them on both sides of the Salt Fork of the Arkansas. To 
this tract, which adjoined the Ponecas on the west, they removed in 
the summer of 1879,’ having in the mean time lost a large number by 
death, the mortality being occasioned in great measure by their unsan- 
itary location while at Fort Leavenworth. The reserve selected for 
them contains 90,735 acres and was paid for at the same price as that 
of the Poneas. 
Otoes and Méssourias.—By act of March 3, 1881,° provision was also 
' June 23, 1879. ° 
> United States Statutes at Large, Vol. XIX, p. 187. 
3 January"27, 1877. 
4 Report of Commissioner of Indian Affairs for 1877, pp. 21-23. 
‘Report of Commissioner of Indian Affairs for 1878, p. xxxvi. 
6 United States Statutes at Large, Vol. XXI, p. 380. 
7 Act of May 27, 1878, United States Statutes at Large, Vol. XX, p. 63. 
§ Report of Commissioner of Indian Affairs for 1879, p. xl. 
