"...It is generally said they are contented and doing well; so they are, as for the day, because they are getting a living; iii some cases they are opening farms, building hits, fencing lands, raising grain, cattle, hogs, ponies, &c., &c. This at first idea seems all well, but when we take into account that they are there by no legal rights, and can at the slightest provocation be driven off without any right to their improvements, it seems all wrong. Many of them use our language as well as the Indian language and they all speak of their situation and of the anxiety they feel in regard to it, pressing for something to be done in their behalf. In  one or two cases they referred to the propriety of being collected in some one portion of the Territory, but said it probably would not be as well, for they would be more likely to be disturbed as they improved their lands. Our company spent one night with an intelligent retired trader, who gave us much information in regard to them, spoke in favorable terms of their general habits—more provident than many of the Indians, often good workers and could be hired—closing his remarks with the hope that we would urge upon Government the importance of its selecting a location for them at some favorable point outside these nations, where they could have their farms to themselves and thus be providing good homes for themselves and their posterity."