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*  Wo r   pperly. If they had such I am satisfied they would not give them
away- 
*  ydoh     ponies. They also need assistance in the way of building houses
to, 
them 1o permanently occupy their allotments. One carpenter and one ap- 
Uo to do all the work for a population of more than a thousand, find constant

meat is the shop, and can do little or nothing in erecting houses on different

of th reservations. 
,                        Ageney. 
!   z@!W buildings, with the exception of that used for office and agent's
resi- 
me        m!-y bad condition. Built originally of cotton-wood lumber and
roofed 
-~~m     wod shingles, they have become so rotten and dilapidated as scarcely
to 
from the storms. By authority of the Department I have directed th& 
o ,prepare plans and estimates for the-buildings needed. These are not yet

time work should be pushed to completion during the coming year. 
School. 
4 
*Wademial'boarding-school was conducted with energy and success during the-

d   A months. The children have made a steady and gratifying advance 
in the understanding and use of the English language, and in skill 
S :1:a ioy in the various branches of manual labor taught in the school.
The 
la   ; m a  fully awake to the importance of education. In addition to the
pupils. 
gency school, they have sent a large number to other schools for the benefit

thorough training than they can secure at home. During the year a well 
/-0ak and a tank and windmill erected to furnish the school with water. They

ed a complete success, affording an abundant supply of pure water in the

- ~~iMisionary. 
ie ' Home Missionary Society of the M. E. Church has recently placed a 
in this field in the person of Mrs. Gaddes, who seems in every way fitted

portaint work. The society proposes to erect a building and make this a 
missionary station. There is here a large and inviting field for this kind

and I anticipate the happiest results in a few years from the labors of the

among these people. 
Sanitary. 
ce of deaths over births and the geheral diminution of the tribe is 
that the sanitary condition of the people is not good. The trouble, 
, is not of a local character. The acute diseases incident to the locality
and 
awe not particularly frequent or severe. But many of the Indians are tainted

Sheretary and constitutional complaints which weaken their powers of resist-

rand they succumb to attacks of pneumonia or malarial fever which a healthy

"~ would easily overcome. 
THE OTOES AND MISSOURIAS. 
$Im bemt little to say for this tribe. Indeed I feel compelled to modify
somewhat 
gardedly favorable opinion I expressed of them in my last report. They 
Orything and perform nothing; they are easy and good natured, but intol-

Imand shiftless. They are still possessed of the idea that they are rich
and 
1i6e to work. They are sharp, too. They are willing to pay a blacksmith and

the mere nothings they want done, and to do all the work in their re- 
Without asking the Indians to do any part of it. But th6y do not want 
=have made a formal demand on me to abolish the place, pretending they 
about farming. But the real reasons are they want his salary added to 
yand they don't want anybody around whose business it is to try to, 
werk. It seems exceedingly difficult for the Otoes and Missourias to aban-

niadic habits. They will leave their houses, and collecting around the 
4w  some other part of the reservation, erect a village of tents, where they
will 
ud dancing until they are driven away, only to repeat the operation again

aring tiAe year. While the above presents, as I think, fairly the prevailing

ofEthtribe, I have, nevertheless, been able to force work enough out of them

-    i td their rations under the rule, and a few, notably the half-breeds,

416P      u.mmendable degree of enterprise in cultivating their crops and
ex- 
,exhibits shows what the tribe has accomplished in the way of farm- 
 
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