Winnebagoes took heart at hearing it. They are said to have "settled down quietly and conteutedly," and have gone to work immediately, "plonghing, planting, and building."

The eitizens of Minnesota did not take kindly to their new neighbors. "An indignation meeting was held; a petition to the President signed; and movements made, the object of all which was to oust these Indians from their dearly-purchased homes," says the Report of the Indian Commissioner for 1855 Sneh movements, and such a publie sentiment on the part of the population surrounding them, ecrtainly did not tend to en comrage the Winnebagoes to industry, sanguiue hopes of being long permitted to remain in their permanent homc." Nerertheless they worked on, doing bet- ter and better every year, keeping good faith with the whites and with the Government, and trusting in the Government's purpose and power to keep faith with them. The only serions faults with which they could be charged were drunkenness and gambling, and both of these they had learned of the white sct- tlers, In the latter they had proved beating professional gamblers at their own game. They showed the bad effects of their repeated removals, also, in being disposed to wander back to their old homes. Sometimes several hundred of them would be roaming about in Wisconsin. But the tribe, as a whole, were industrious, quiet, always peaceable and loyal, and steadily improving.

They took hold in earnest of the hard work of farming; of them who could not get either horses or are said to lhave or to give them any very to be apt scholars, oftcn Some ploughs actnally breaking up ncw land with hocs, and getting fair crops out of it, Very soon they began to entreat to have their farms set- tled on them individually, and guarantced to them for their own; and the Government, taking advantage of this desire on thcir part, made a treaty witl then in 1859, by which part of their lands were to be "allotted " to individuals in "several they ad requested, and the rest were to be sold, the tv, as