38                  REPORTS OF AGENTS IN          DAKOTA. 
be pauperizing in connection with white people has resulted in very little
civiliza- 
tion of a self-supporting character among the Sioux generally? Look at the
thou- 
sands of white tramps and able-bodied paupers in our county houses East,
and then 
inquire, why does not the Indian work for a living? Answer will probably
be made, 
"Ambition should induce the Indian to rise out of his dependent condition."
Is it 
ambition or necessity that compels the uneducated among the white people
to labor ? 
An Indian's ambition does not run toward the plow and harrow, but rather
in the 
direction of prominence as a war chief or fighting man. The uncivilized Sioux
to- 
day, in his aboriginal egotism, with good reason, considers himself the su
perior of the 
white man, for the white man is a laborer and pays tribute to the Sioux Nation
by 
sending to that nation annually rations and supplies of all kinds. It is
a common re- 
mark in the Indian councils among themselves, "The white man has to
work for a 
living! I do not! Why should I want to be a white man?" 
The public may rest assured that just so long as this nonsensical provision
of the 
treaty is sustained just so long will this feeling of opposition to labor
prevail among 
the Sioux, and just so long will they remain an unproductive and expensive
burden 
on the Government. To-day. the Devil's Lake, Sisseton, and Santee Sioux are
nearly 
or quite self supporting, and why? Simply because they are not parties to
the general 
Sioux treaty of 1868, and by limitation their rations have gradually withdrawn.

Necessity, and not love of labor, has forced them to engage in labor for
a living. 
There are to-day hundreds of the younger Indians at Pine Ridge ready and
able to 
work, and do work, but there is not only a lack of necessity, but constant
advicegiven 
them against labor by Red Cloud and some of the older chiefs, who, in their
arro. 
gance, claim ownership over the people as head chiefs, and in this claim
are bolstered 
up by a few white men East, who ought to know better. 
Thanking your Department for the support and assistance rendered in the past,

I am, very respectfully, 
V. T. McGILLYCUDDY, 
United States Indian Agent. 
The COMMISSIONER OF INDIAN AFFAIRS. 
ROSEBUD AGENCY, DAKOTA, 
August 31, 1885. 
SIR: In submitting this my third annual report of the affairs of this agency,
in 
accordance with instructions, I have the honor to present the same in detail,
as fol- 
lows: 
CENSUS. 
By the recent census the Indians enrolled at this agency, including 223 from
Chey- 
enne River Agency, taken up by instructious from the Office of Indian Affairs,
and 
those transferred from other agencies, number in the aggregate 8, 292, and
are classi- 
fied in bands, sex, and age, as follows: 
Bands.                  .        I 
Brud. iNo. I ---------------  366  565  821  424  401  2,211   217   203
   420 
BrulO, No. 2 ---------------  227  869  523  265  291  1.448   157   178
   335 
Loafer ....................  339  407  649  375   320  1,751   208   163
    373 
W'ahvazah ...............  240  362  537  310   249  1, 458  101I  126  
 277 
Two Kettle -------------- -  62  83  129    72     70   354    45     32
    77 
No, th rn ------------------ 68  102  162   85     69   418     49    33
    82 
Bulldog- --------------------16  19   29    12     16    76     4      5
     9 
Mixed ....................  145  102  18  162    130    576    74    54 
   128 
Total----------------1,461  2,009j 3,012  1, 705  1, 546  8, 292  905  796
 1, 701 
Those from other agencies have joined one or other of the above bands with
which 
they are related, have friends, or settled at or near their camps, dropping
their 
identity wiih the band with which they ha d previously been identitied. 
These Indians from Cheyenne River Agency canie here last fall or winter,
requested 
to be taken upon my rolls. N4ot having transfers, their request was refused,
and they