88 THE GEORGE CATLIN INDIAN GALLERY. 



In numbers 379, 392, 431, 433, 435, 140, 455, 45G, 464, 476, 498, 502, 503, 

 504, 505, 50G, and 507, herein, will be found pictures of life amongst and 

 customs of the Mandans, with full descriptive text by Mr. Catlin. 



In Hayden's Catalogue of rhotographs of Indians will also be found 

 several photographs of Mandans taken in 1874, viz, Nos. 1005, 100G, 

 1007, and 884. 



PRESENT LOCATION AND CONDITION. 



On June 30, 1884, there were 311 Mandans at Fort Berthold Agency, 

 Dakota, and on August 18, 1885, 340. Farmers and herders. 



The agent reported, August 5, 1884, that he was informed that some 

 200 Gros Ventres and Mandans belonging to his agency were at Fort 

 Buford desirous of returning. How many Mandans he did not state. 



Abram J. Gilford, agent, reports August 18, 1885, that 115 Gros Vent- 

 res and 70 Mandans — in all, 185 — are off the reservation : 



They are living about forty miles west of Fort Berthold, where tliey have settled 

 in a village, supporting themselves by hunting, fishing, &c. This band of Indians, 

 under the leadership of Crow Flies High, quite a noted Gros Ventre character, sepa- 

 rated from the bands of Arickarees, Gros Ventres, and Mandans of this place several 

 years ago ; owing to a disagreement on the part of Crow Flies High and the present 

 Gros Ventres chief in regard to the elevation of the former to the distinguished honor 

 of chieftainship. Being defeated in his ends, Crow Flies High and his followers mi- 

 grated to Fort Buford, 120 miles west of here, and remained there, supporting them- 

 selves till last autumn, when they were ordered away by the commanding officer at 

 the post and settled on the Little Knife Eiver, where they are now. They are, how- 

 ever, gradually coming back to Fort Berthold, prompted in so doing from the fact of 

 seeing so many of our Indians endeavoring to secure their own subsistence by plow-* 

 ing and cultivating land allotted to them and which seems to create in them a strong 

 desire to do likewise. 



The total number of Mandans reported at Fort. Berthold Agency and 

 near Fort Buford in August, 1885, was 410. The agent further reports : 



The conduct of the Indians on this reservation for the past year has been, indeed, 

 remarkable. I am sure that there is not nor could there be produced a band of so 

 many whites among whom so little crime has been committed. 



SHLENNE. 



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

 A small but very valiant tribe of 3,000, neighbors of the Sioux, on the west, be- 

 tween the Black Hills and the Rocky Mountains ; a very tall race of men, second in 

 stature to the Osages. 



Mr. Gatlin saw them in 1834. He met the subjects of these two pictures 

 in the camp of the Sioux, at the mouth of Teton Eiver, Upper Missouri, 



143. Ne-hee-6-ee-woo-tis ; the Wolf on the Hill; chief of the tribe; a noble and 

 fine-looking fellow. This man has been known to own one hundred horses 

 at one time. Painted in 1834. 



(Plate No. 115, page 2, vol. 2, Catlin's Eight Years.) 

 The chief represented in this picture was clothed in a handsome dress of deer- 

 skins, very neatly garnished with broad bands of porcupine-quill work down the 



