Show semi A correspondent of the new york herald gives the following description of a visit to crow creek indian agency now in in charge of sir spencer of st paul rie agency embraces about acres of land occupied by yankton this tribe is about the most civilized body of sioux on themis the missouri river they have lave no sympathy with the hostile lios savage savages and E boast nast cf of their unswerving loyalty to the C government lovern ment during all the crises crises that have arisen in late years during the sioux uprising in minnesota which took place in 1862 the lower Yankton kept aloof from the tribes who massacred and plundered the whites eleven chiefs nominally govern the tribe at present they aro are white ghost dog back running bear crow man splits not afraid of bear Dri drifting fling goose bull ghost white shield and camp in the middle the leading chief or premier is white ghost who is very friendly to the government as in fact all the chiefs chieti are within two years there have been been houses built by the indians when a buck erects a house tho the agent furnishes him with a shingled roof elove chairs bedstead and cooking utensils forty houses were built in the tile past three months and lire tire noy awaiting roofs nearly ait tho chiefs have taken land claims and gome some of them are now act ac lally tally engaged in farming they jo not seem however to be very agrical turis ts when husina of im importance or demands it tale th agent cacis calls a council of the eb as Q and communicates the instruct ins DS of meat ment to them but in ordinary transactions the agent deals directly with individuals the chief chiefs arc are rapidly losing losing their influence and the in individuality divi duality u al ityl of the nal nai seems to grow as Is he le is is separated from the rest of his tribe when the head bead of a family settles on a farm he be practically renounces his allegiance to his chief and assumes the air of independence which properly belongs to the land owner this seems to be the key to the whole indian question scattered all about the agency arc are little log lo 10 huts and it was a strange comment on the barbarism of the indians to see a tattered tepee pitched within ten feet on a warm log house the occupant of the latter sitting on his own ovin doorstep and watching the misery of his less progressive brother it is in this manner by force of contrast that the civilization of the yank is I being accomplished |