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Utica and the banks of the Mohawk River. This tribe was one of the confederacy 

 called the Six Nations, and much distinguished in the early history of New York. 

 The present chief is known by the name of Bread (Plate No. 201). He is a shrewd 

 and talented man, well educated, speaking good English ; is handsome, and a polite 

 and gentlemanly man in his deportment. 



(Also see Senecas and Iroquois, pages 154, 178, herein.) 



LOCATION AND NUMBER. 



Oneidas at Green Bay Agency, Wisconsin, 1884, 1,500; in August, 

 1885, 1,595. They hold their lands in common. 

 Agent D. P. Andrews writes September 1, 1884 : 



The Oneidas reside upon their reserve near Green Bay, in Brown County, Wiscon- 

 sin. They are comparatively self-sustaining, and receive only $1,000 per annum from 

 the Government under treaty stipulations, besides being furnished six day-school 

 teachers without cost to the tribe. Referring to the report of the Commissioner of 

 Indian Affairs for the year 1865, it will be seen that the Oneidas then numbered by 

 the then last census 1,064, while in December last the annuity pay-roll shows that 

 the tribe numbers 1,628, an increase of 564, or nearly one-third of the present num- 

 ber of the tribe. Farming is the principal avocation of these people and the present 

 season they are blessed with a bountiful harvest. 



THE LANGUAGE SPOKEN. 



A mistake has clearly been made in the earlier reports of this tribe as to their 

 speaking the English language, for at this time it will be found that nearly the whole 

 of the tribe speak the Oneida dialect at home and when conversing with each other, 

 and their children are reared to hear scarcely any other spoken language, excejH 

 when at school, which renders their school progress slow with this double burden. 



Oneidas at Oneida Beserve,New York, in 1884, 172; in August, 1885, 

 170 ; Oneidas at Onondaga Eeserve, New York, in 1884, 70; in August, 

 1885, 73, and a few in Canada, all civilized, and all annuity or self- 

 supporting Indians. Total in United States in 1884, 1,742; in 1885, 

 1,838. 



TUS-KA-R6-RA. 



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



New York, remnant of a numerous tribe, one of the confederacy of the Six Na- 

 tions ; present number 500 ; semi- civilized. 



Mr. Catlin visited them in 1829-'30. 



271. Cti-sick, : son of Cusick, the chief. Civilized and Christianized. 



This man is a Baptist preacher, and quite an eloquent man, and is a very talented 

 man. He was educated for the pulpit. Painted in 1830. 



(Plate No. 202, page 104, vol. 2, Catling Eight Years.) 



CUSICK AS AN ARTIST. 



"There is, or was, an Indian artist, self taught, who, in a rude but 

 most graphic drawing, exhibited upon canvass the events of a treaty 

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