When the agent of the Upper Platte Agency tried to reason on this subject with one of the Sioux chiefs, the chief said When I was a young man, and I am not yet fifty, I travelled with my people through the country of the Sac and Fox tribe, to the great water Minne Toukah (Mississippi), where I saw growing, but no white people; continuing eastward, we came to the Rock River valley, and saw the Winncbagoes, but no white people. We then came to the Fox River valley, and thence to the Great Lake (Lalke Michigan), where we found a few white people in ihe Pottawattomie country. Thonce we returned to the Sioux conntry at the Great Falls of Irara (St. Anthony), and had a feast of green corn with onr relations, who resided there. Afterward we visited the pipe-clay quarry in the country of the Yankton Sioux, and made a feast to the Great Medicine,' and danced the 'sun dance,' and then return- ed to our hunting-grounds tells us the white man will never settle on our lands, and kill corn on the prairie. And now our Father our game; but sec! the whites cover all of those lands I have just deseribed, and also the lands of the Poncas, Omahas, and Pawnees. On the Sonth Platte the white people are finding gold, and the Cheyennes and Arapahoes have no longer any hnting-gronnds. Our country has become very small, and be- fore our children are grown up we shall have no game."

In the autumn of this year (1859) a council with the Cheyenues aud Arapahocs, and tell them of the wish of the Government that they should "assame a fixed an agent was sent to hold residence, and oceupy themselves in agriculture. This they at once received with favor, and declared with great unanimity to be acceptable partment shall supply them with what is necessary to establish themselves permanently. lously maintained peaceful relations with the whites, and with other Indian tribes, uotwithstanding the many causes of irrita- tion growing out of the occnpation of the gold region, and the to ihem. They expected ad asked that the De- Both these iribes had scrupu