THE GEORGE CATLIN INDIAN GALLERY. 



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LOCATION AND NUMBERS (APPROXIMATE), JUNE 30, 1885. 



DAKOTA. 



Sioux at Cheyenne River Agency : 



Blackfret Sioux 224 



Sans Arcs Sioux 788 



Minnekonjo Sioux 1,382 



Two-Kettle Sioux 750 



Crow Creek and Lower Bruld Agency 

 Sioux: 



Lower Yanktonais Sioux 1, 098 



Lower Brule" Sioux 1, 424 



Devil's Lake Agency Sioux : 



Sisseton Sioux, Wahpeton Sioux, 

 and Cut Head Sioux 864 



Pine Ridge Agency (Red Cloud) Sioux: 



Ogalalla Sioux *. . .7, 800 



Northern Cheyenne 500 



Rosebud Agency (Spotted Tail): 



■ Brule" Sioux, No. 1 2,102 



Brule" Sioux, No. 2 1,493 



Loafer Sioux 1, 558 



Wah-zah-zah Sioux 1 , 161 



Two- Kettle Sioux 953 



Northern Sioux 729 



Rosebud Agency (Spotted Tail) — Cont'd. 



Bull Dog Sioux 184 



Mixed Sioux 568 



Sisseton Agency : 



Sisseton and Wahpeton Sioux. 



Standing Rock Agency : 



Lower Yanktonais Sioux 1, 347 



Upper Yanktonais Sioux 631 



Blackfeet Sioux 659 



Uncapapa Sioux 1, 976 



Mixed bloods of all bands 113 



Yankton Agency : 



Yankton Sioux 1, 950 



NEBRASKA. 



Santee and Flandreau Agency : 



Santee Agency 806 



Santee Sioux at Flandreau 250 



Fort Peck Agency, Montana : 



Yanctonais Sioux 3, 542 



Santee Sioux 423 



Ogalalla and Teton Sioux 205 



Total 35,680 



PRESENT CONDITION. 



Several bands of the Sioux are semi-civilized. Some remain "blan- 

 ket Indians ," but few, if any, are roamers. The reports of the several 

 agents in charge of Sioux reservations, which are published annually 

 in the report of the Commissioner of Indian Affairs, will furnish full 

 data. The civilizing of the Sioux is progressing fairly well. They 

 have been in the past the terror of the West and Northwest, but are 

 now far from the warlike savages that they were. Sioux outbreaks 

 since 1862 and to 1876 were frequent, but are now improbable. They 

 reside on reservations adjacent to their original country, and this has 

 probably aided in contenting them to this system. A valuable series of 

 photographs of the Sioux can be found in Hay den's Catalogue (pages 

 28-45), (fourteen tribes being represented). They are believed to be 

 slowly decreasing. 



SIOUX WARS FROM 1812 TO 1882. 



For details as to Sioux wars from 1812 to 1882, see first reports of 

 Indian Bureau, reports of Secretary of War, and "Becord of Engage- 

 ments with Hostile Indians within the Military Division of the Mis- 

 souri, from 1868 to 1882, Lieut. General P. H. Sheridan commanding, 

 1882;" also see " Cheyennes," herein, Nos. 143 and 144. 



PUN-CAH. 



[Ponca: Laws of the United States. Ponca: Indian Bureau, June, 1885.] 



A small tribe residing on the west bank of the Missouri River, 900 in number, re- 

 duced one-half by small-pox in 1824-'25. [Mr. Catlin saw them on his trip to the Man- 

 dans in 1832.— T. D.] 



95. Shoo-de-ga-cha, the Smoke, chief of the tribe. 

 A very philosophical and dignified man. 



(Painted in 1832. Plate No. 87, page 212, vol. 1, Catlin's Eight Years, ) 



