e tribes,
as nearly as the same can be ascertained:--

Blackfeet, Bloods, and Piegans 7,500

Assinaboines 4,790

Gros Ventres 1,100

Santee, Yanktonais, Uncpapa, and Cut-Head Sioux,
at Milk River agency 2,625

River Crows 1,240

Mountain Crows 2,700

Flatheads 460

Pend d'Oreilles 1,000

Kootenays 320

Shoshones, Bannocks, and Sheep-Eaters 677

Roving Sioux, commonly called Teton Sioux,
including those gathered during 1872, at
and near Fort Peck, (largely estimated) 8,000
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Estimated total 30,412

The number of northern Cheyennes and Arapahoes roaming in Montana, who,
it is believed, have co-operated with the Sioux under "Sitting Bull,"
in their depredations, is not known: it is probably less than 1,000.

The Blackfeet, Bloods, and Piegans (located at the Blackfeet agency on
the Teton River, about seventy-five miles from Fort Benton), the Gros
Ventres, Assinaboines, the River Crows, about 1,000 of the Northern
Arapahoes and Cheyennes, and the Santee and Yankton Sioux (located at
the Milk River agency, on the Milk River, about one hundred miles from
its mouth), occupy jointly a reservation in the extreme northern part of
the Territory, set apart by treaties (not ratified) made in 1868 with
most of the tribes named, and containing about 17,408,000 acres. The
Blackfeet, Bloods, and Piegans, particularly the last-named band, have
been, until within about two years, engaged in depredating upon the
white settlers. The Indians at the Milk River agency, with the exception
of the Sioux, are now, and have been for several years, quiet and
peaceable. The Sioux at this agency, or most of them, were engaged in
the outbreak in Minnesota in 1862. On the suppression of hostilities
they fled to the northern part of Dakota, where they continued roaming
until, in the fall of 1871, they went to their present location, with
the avowed intention of remaining there. Although they had been at war
for years with the Indians proper