Many of the bones of the chief were broken, and his huge an tagonist lay dead by his side, weltering in blood from a hun- dred wounds made by the chief's long and two-edged knife.

Had the provisions of these first treaties been fairly and promptly carried out, there would have been living to-day among the citizens of Minnesota thousands of Sioux fami lies, good and prosperous farmers and meechanics, whose civ ilization would have dated back to the treaty of Prairio du Chien.

In looking through the records of the expenditures of the Indian Burcau for the six years following this treaty, we find no mention of any specific provisions for the Sioux in the mat ter of education. The $3000 annually which tbe treaty prom ised should be spent "on account of the children of the said tribes and bands," is set down as Academy," which was in Kentucky. A very well endowed in- stitution that must have been, if we may trust to the fiscal re- ports of the Indian Bnreau. In the year 1836 there were set expended on the "Choctaw expended on this academy: On account of the Mi- down as amis, 82000 the Pottawattomies, $5000; the Sacs, Foxes, and others, $3000; the Choctaws, $10,000; the Creeks, east, $3000; the Cherokees, west, $2000; the Florida Indians, $1000; the Quapaws, $1000; the Chickasaws, $8000; the Creeks, $1000 being a total of $31,000.

There were in this year one hundred and fifty-six pupils the Choctaw Academy, sixteen of them being from the Sacs, Foxes, Sioux, and others represented in the Treaty of Prairie du Chien of 1830. For the education of these sixteen children, therefore, theso tribes paid $3000 a year more in proportion, having but four yonths at school, and $2000 a year charged to them. The Pottawattomies, on a treaty provision of $5000, educated twenty.

In 1836 Congress appropriated $2000 "for the purpose of extinguishing the Indian title between the State of Missouri at The Miamis paid