ling among them owing to this trouble. Neverthcless, these bands have aiscd over four thousand bushels of corn in the year There is also a great opposition to the sehools, because the Indians have been told that the accumulated fifty thousand dollars which is due to them would be paid to them in eash if Nevertheless, education is slowly progressing; in this year fifty copies of a little missionary pa- per called The Dakota Friend were subscribed for in the onc mission station of Lac qui Parle, and sixty scholars were enrolled at the school. The blacksmith at St. Peter's reportss that he it were not for the schools. has nade during the year 2506 pieces of one sort and another for the Indians, and repaired 1430 more. munity keeping blacksmiths so busy as this are by no means wholly idle themselves.

It is worth while to dwell upon these seemingly trivial de- tails at this point in the history of the Minnesota Sioux, be- Evidently a com cause they are all significant to mark the point in civilization they had already reached, and the disposition they had already shown toward industry before they their first great removal. Their condition at the end of two years from the ratification of these treatios is curtly told in the official reports of the Indian Bureau:

The present situation of that portion of the Sioux Indians parties to the treaties of July 23d and August 5th, 1851, is peculiar, unfortunate, and to them must prove extremely inju rious. By these treatics they reluctantly parted with a very large extent of valuable country, which it was of the greatest importance to the Government to acquire. An insignificant portion of it near its western boundary, not deemed necessary or desirable for a white population for many years, if at all obliged to subnit to were was agreed to be reserved and assigned to them for their fature residence. The Senate amended the treaties, striking out this provision, allowing ten cents an acre in lieu of the reservations, and requiring the President, with the assent of the Indians, if