856 THE GEORGE CATLIN INDIAN GALLERY. 



country, comprising 230,014 acres, out of the lands named in the sixteenth article of 

 said Cherokee treaty, the price not to exceed 70 cents per acre. The Pawnees have 

 been in possession of this reserve for several years, but no payment has been made to 

 the Cherokees. The lands were appraised last year by a commission appointed under 

 the hfth section of an act of Congress approved May 29, 1872 (17 Stats., p. 190), at an 

 average valuation of 59.9 cents per acre. The remainder of the Cherokee lands west 

 of 96 degrees (6,344,562 acres) is unoccupied, the United States not having as yet set- 

 tled thereon any other tribes. 



By the third article of the treaty concluded June 14, 1866 (14 Stats., p. 786), the Creek 

 Indians ceded to the United States, to be sold to and used as homes for such other civ- 

 ilized Indians as the United States may choose to settle thereon, the west half of their 

 entire domain, at 30 cents per acre. Of this cession there were sold to the Sac and Fox 

 Indians, at the price paid the Creeks, 479,667 acres, and to the Seminoles, at 50 cents 

 per acre, 200,000 acres. 



There are included in the Pottawatomie " 30-mile square" tract 222,668 acres, from 

 which, by an act of Congress approved May 23, 1872 (17 Stats., p. 159), allotments were 

 authorized to be made to the Pottawatomie citizen band, and the absentee Shawnee 

 Indians, the cost thereof to the United States (viz, 30 cents) to be paid by said In- 

 dians. No money, however, has yet been paid, though a number of allotments have 

 been made. Of the remainder, a portion is occupied by the Cheyenne and Arapaho 

 Indians, by authority from the President, dated August 10, 1869, and the remaining 

 portion is unoccupied. 



By the third article of the treaty March 2, 1866 (14 Stats., p. 755), the Seminoles 

 ceded to the United States their entire domain at 15 cents per acre, being the land 

 ceded by the Creeks for the Seminoles in the treaty of August 7, 1856 (11 Stats., p. 699). 

 Of this cession 353,209 acres are included in the Pottawatomie " 30 -mile square" tract 

 for the settlement of the Pottawatomie citizen band of the absentee Shawnee Indians, « 

 as recited in the Creek cession. Of the remainder, a portion is occupied by Cheyennes 

 and Arapahoes,by authority from the President, dated August 10, 1869, and the bal- 

 ance is unoccupied by any tribe. 



By the ninth article of the treaty of June 22, 1855 (11 Stats., p. 613), the Choctaws 

 and Chickasaws leased to the United States all their lands west of 98 degrees, viz, 

 7,713,239 acres, for the permanent settlement of the Wichita and other Indians, the 

 United States paying therefor the sum of $800,000 ; and by the first article of the treaty 

 of April 28, 1866 (14 Stats., p. 769), in consideration of the sum of $300,000, the Choctaw 

 and Chickasaw Indians ceded all of the lands west of 98 degrees named in the treaty 

 of June 22, 1855, and known as the " leased lands," to the United States. 



By the second article of the treaty of October 21, 1867 (15 Stats., p. 582), the United 

 States set apart out of these leased lands a tract of country containing 2,968,893 acres 1 

 as a permanent home for the Kiowa and Comanche Indians, the consideration therefor 

 being a relinquishment of all their right to occupy permanently the territory outside 

 of this tract, including their old reservation, as defined in the treaty of 1865. By an 

 unratified agreement, made October 19, 1872, the Wichitas were assigned another tract ■ 

 of country out of these leased lands, embracing an area of 743,610 acres. The Chey- 

 enne and Arapahoe Indians, by authority from the President, dated August 10, 1869, 

 occupy 2,489,160 acres, and the remainder of these leased lands (1,511,576 acres) are 

 unoccupied by any tribes. 



The above was the condition February 15, 1878. Since that date the Poncas and 

 Nez Perce's have been moved to and now occupy a portion of the Cheyenne and Ara- 

 pahoe lands, being a portion of the Cherokee lands west of the Arkansas River, the 1 

 former 101,894 acres, and the latter 90,135 acres. 



The unoccupied lands in the Indian Territory are held by the United States. Under 

 date of May 23, 1879, the Commissioner of Indian Affairs reports as to these lands as 

 follows : 



" In reply to the last inquiry contained in said resolution [viz, resolution of United 

 States Senate May 14, 1879], 'whether it is the intention of the Government to use 



