"For the present," writes the superintendent, "it is equally important to protect the Indians from the whites as the whites from the Indians;" and this in spite of the fact that all the leading bands of the treaty Sioux had contributed warriors to go in pursuit of the murderers, had killed or captured all they conld find, and stood ready to go again after the remaining cight, if the United States troops would go also and assist them Spite of the excrtions of one of the chiefs of the Lower Sioux, "Little Crow," who, the superintendent says, labored with him "night and day in organizing the party, riding continnally be- tween the lower and upper agencics," so that they "scarcely slept" till the war-party had set out on the track of the mur derers; spite of the fact that the whole body of the Sioux, with- out exception, "received the intelligence with as much indigua tion and disapprobation best to stand clear of any suspieion of or connection with the affair-spite of all this, they were in continual danger of being shot at sight by the terrified and unreasoning settlers. One band, under thc chicf Sleepy Eyes, homes from a hunt; and while they were "wondering what the panie among the whites meant" (they having heard noth- ing of the massacre), as the whites themselves, and did their were returning to their were fired into by some of the militia volunteers.

The next day a white settler was found killed near that spot presumably by some member of Sleepy Eyes' band. This excitement slowly abated, and for the next four years a steady improvement was visible in the Minncsota Sioux. Hundreds of them threw aside the blanket-the distinctive badge of their wild state; schools were well attended, and farms were well tilled. That there was great hostility to this civilization, on the part of thc majority of the tribe, cannot be denied; but that was only natural-the inevitable protest of a high-spirited and proud When we see the men of Lorraine, against abandoning all its race distinetions. or of Montenegro, ready to race