and adopted the dress, habits, and customs of civilization; and in doing this, which placed them in open opposition to the traditions of their tribes, they the Govermment. By a mistaken policy, by positive neglect to provide a government, by the perversion of funds due them for the sale of one-half their reservations, by withholding their aunities until two months after they caused by the use of a part of these funds for elaims), by per- mitting other causes of dissatisfaction to go on unheeded, we provoked the hostility of the wld Indians, and it went on unti it ripened in massacre. pledged a patent for their farms: unless we violated our solemn pledge, these lands were theirs by a title as yalid as any title could be. They had large erops, sufficient to support General Sibley's army for a number of weeks, They lost all they had crops, stock, clothing, furniture. In addition to this, they deprived of their share in these annuities, and for four years have lived in very great suffering, You can judge whether $5000 shall be deemed a just reward^[1] for the bray cry and fidelity of men who, at the risk of their own lives, were instrumental in saving wlite eaptives, and maintained their friendship to the whites.

"I submit to you, sir, and through you hope who fear God and love jnstice, whether the very least we can do for all the friendly Sioux is not to fulfil the pledges made years ago, and give to each of them a patent of eighty acres of land, build them a house, and provide them cattle, pledged the protection of were were due (which was These farmer Iudians had been were to reach all We seeds, and implements of husbandry?"

In 1866 all these Sioux were removed, and, in spite of the