The Navajo agency is situated on the immediate bor- or take the pains to look at the statement of this committee. and of dcr of the State of Colorado. and there are 12.000 Indians all told. which is verified by reference in each case to the authority upon They have an area of a little over five million acres of land. They which they make it. it ought to weigh as much as the high sounding have upon that. as shown by the reportof the Commissioner of Indian. declaration that the Indians are demanding lands in severalty and that so much will be accomplished if it is allowed. Speaking now of Manypennys report. they say: Heo says in the annual report for 1853. page 28. that it had always been under. stood that none but Indians were to occupy that countryReferring to the country west of the Missouridthatcensiuentlv theIudians were "excited." thatthe emigrantIndian "seemed to have avive recolleotion of the assurances made to them at the time of their reinoval. that their present locations should be their permanent homes. and that the white race should never interfere with their possessions." (Page 32.) The Cem. missioner told them they would do better to sell out and remove to some less exposed place. Ho adds in his report that "the position of Nebraska. with reference to our Pacific possessions. renders it a matter of vast importance that it be speedily opened and actual settlers invited into it on the meet liberal terms." No treaties were made that year. Oat of a large number subsequently nege. tiated by him. six were with emigrant tribes living in the country previously set apart exclusively for Indians. All of these treaties embody the illotment princiIls and one of them provides for the dissolution of tribal relations. Two others with Indians in Michigan contain both features.
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