sideration the fact that the reservation is surrounded by ranches where liquors of all kinds ean be obtained."" Is there another village of two thousand inhabitants in the Cnited States of which this can be said?

In this ycar a commission was scnt to treat with some of the wilder bands of Sioux for the relinquishment of their right to hunt and r0am over a large part of their annccded territory in Kansas and Nebraska. Some of the chiefs consented. Red Cloud's band refuscd at first; "but on being told that the right would soon be taken from them," after a delay of two days they "agreed to accept," merely stipulating that their share of the twenty-five thousand dollars promised shoald be paid in They insisted, however, on this proviso "That we do not surrender any right of occupation of the country situated in Nebraska north of the divide, which is south of and ncar to the Niobrara River and west of the one horses and guns hundredth meridian."

It was a significant fact that, when these Sioux gave up this hunting privilege, " they requested that nearly all the $25,000 they received in compensation for this relinquishment should be expended in cows, horses, harness, and wagons," says the Commissioner of Indian Affairs in 1875

There are still some thousand or more of hostilc Sioux roam ing about under the famous chief Sitting Bull-living by the chase when they can, and by depredations when they must; occasionally, also, appcaring at ageneies, and drawing rations among the other Iadians unsuspected. The remainder of the steadily working their way on toward civilization. The Santees aro a Christian eommunity; thcy have their indus trial-schools, Sabbath-schools, and night-schools; they publish a monthly paper in the Dakota tongue, which prints trelve hnndred copies. The Yanktons have learned to weave, and have made cloth enough to give every Indian woman in the The Flandrcau citizen Sioux have a bands are tribe one good dress.