and if you don't give this order, and everything here is not on whecls inside of ten days, I'll order my young men to tear down and burn every thing in this part of the country I don't want to hear anything more to say to you:" and lhe turned his back on the commis- sioncr and walked away have been borne from unarmed and helpless Indians; but when morc from you, and I've got nothing Such language as this would not it came from a chicf with four thousand armed warriors at his back, it was another aifair altogether. The order was written. In less than ten days everything body of these Sionx on the move to the country they had indi- cated; and the Scoretary of the Interior says, naively, in his Report for 1868, "The Indians were found to be quite deter mined to move westward, and the proinise of the Government in that respcct was faithfully kept."

The reports from all the bands of Sionx for the past two yoars have becn full of indications of their rapid and encour was "on wheels," and the whole aging improvement. tion has been made by the Ogallalla and Brulé Sioux," says tho Report of the Indian Bureau for 1879. Their progress during the last year and a half has been simply marvellous."

And yet this One band of Ogallalla Sioux has been moved, since 1863, eiglht times. Is it not a wonder that they have any heart to work, any hope of anytlhing in the future?

"It is no longer a question," says this sane report, "whether Indians will work. They to do so, and the Indians who to-day arc The most decided advance in civiliza steadily asking for opportunities willing and anxious largely in the majority; ** are to engage in civilized labor are there is an almost universal call for lands in severalty; * there is a growing desirc to live in houses; the demand for agricultural implements and appliances, and for wagons and harness for farming and freighting purposes, is constantly increasing."

That all this should be true of these wild, warlike Sioux,