and, as years went on, openly lamented that "the Indians were beginning to find out what lands were worth;" while the In dians, auxious, alarmed, hostile at heart, secing themselves bard er and harder pressed on all sides, driven "to provide other sources for sipplying their wants besides those of hunting, which mnst soon entircly fail them,"^[1] yielded mile after mile with inereasing vent, and of resentment which it would have been worse than were powerless to pre- sense of loss, which they impolitic for them to show.

The first annuities promised this treaty-$3000 annually for ten years to the Yankton and Santee bands; to the otlher four, $2000. Santee bands were to pay out of their annuity $100 yearly to the Otoes, because part of some land which was reserved for the half-brceds of the tribe had originally belonged to the Otoes also, instruments for agricultural purposes; and iron and steel to the amount of $700 annually for ten years to some of the bands, and to the anount of $400 to the others; also, $3000 a year 'for educational pirposes,' and $3000 in presents distrib- uted at the time," were promised them promised by to the Sioux werc The Yankton and A blacksmith, at the expense of the United States;

It was soon after these treaties that the artist Catlin made his famous journeys among the North Amcrican Indians, and gave to the world an invaluable eontribution to their history, perpetuating in his pictures the distinctive iraits of their faces and their dress, and leaving able testimony Hc spent several wecks among the Sioux, and says of them: There is no tribe on the continent of finer looking mcn, and few tribes who are better and more comfortably clad and sup- plied with the necessaries of life. *I have travelled several years alrcady among thesc pecople, aud I have not had my scalp on record many pages of unassail

as to their characteristics in their native state