devoted to paying the just debts of the tribe; $8230 to be ex- phy- pended annually for twenty years in stock, implements, sicians, farmers, blacksnitlhs, ctc.; $10,000 worth of tools, cat- tle, ele., to be given break up and improve their lands;" $5300 to be expended an- nually for twenty years in food for them, " to be delivered at the cxpense of the United States;" $6000 worth of goods to be given to them on their arrival at St. Louis.

In 1838 the Indian Burcau reports that all the stipulations of this treaty have been complied with, "except those which appropriate $8280 to be expended annually ii the purchase of medicines, agrieultural implements, and stock; and for the sup- port of a physician, farmers, and blacksmiths," and "bind the United States to supply thes agricultural implements, tools, cattle, and such other articles as may be useful to them, to an amount not exceeding $10,000, to enable them to break up and improve their lauds," The fulfilment or non-frlflment of these stipalations has been left to the discretion of the agent; and the agent writes that it "must be obvious to any one that a general personal inter- course" on his part "is impracticable," and that "his intervicws with many of the tribes must result frem casualty and accident." on to them immediately, "to enable them to Sioux as soon as practicable with This was undoubtedly true; but it did not, in all probability, oceur to the Indians that it was a good and sufficient reason for their not receiving the $18,000 worth of goods promised.

Five thousand seven hundred and eighty-nine dollars were expended the next year under this provision of the treaty, and a few Indians, who all labored with the hoe," raised their own crops without assistance. Six thonsand bushels of corn in all were housed for the winter; but the experiment of turning hunters into farmers in one ycar was thought not to be, on the whole, an enconraging one. The "peculiar habits of indoleuce, and total disregard and want of knowledge of the value and uses of time and property," the agent says, "almost forbid