die for the sake mercly of being ealled by the name of one power rather than by that of another, we find it heroic, and give them our dian is ready to die rather than wear the clothes and follow sympathics; but when the North American In- tlhe ways of the white man, we feel for him ouly unqualified contempt, and see in his instinet nothing more than a barbarian's incapacity to appreciate civilization. In 1861 the Commissioner of Indian Affairs, visiting these Sioux, reports "I was much surprised to find so many of the Sioux Indians wearing the garb of civilization, many of them living in frame or brick houses, somc of them with stables or out-houses, and their ficlds indicating considerable knowledge of agriculture." Their condition, he says, affords "abundant evidence of what may be acconmplished among the Sioux In- dians by steadily adhcring to a uniform, undeviating policy "The number that live by agricultural pursuits is yet small compared with the whole; but their condition is so much better than that of the wild Indian, that they, too, are becoming convinced that it is the better way to live; and many are coming Is this just?

in, asking to have their hair ent, and for a suit of clothos, and to be located on a piece of land where they and fence in their fields," can build a honse Many more of them would have entered on the agricultaral life had the Government provided ways and means for them to In this same report is a mention of one settlement of do so two thousand Indians at Big Stone Lake, who "have bcen hitherto almost entirely neglected that they have lived upon promises for the last ten years, and really of opinion that white men never perform what they promise. Many of them would go to work if they had any reasonable encouragement."

The annuitics are still in arrears. Every branch of the industries and improvements attempted suffers for want of the promised fands, and from delays in payments expected. The worst These people complain are