and self-sustaining. They entercd upon their new reservation late last May, and during the present year they have raised at Icast twenty thonsand bnshcls of corn." n 1867 the Commissioner of Indian Affairs says: "The Winnebagoes have a just claim against the Government on ac- count of their removal from Minnesota, the expenses of which were borne out of their own tribal funds. The Government is clearly bound in all honor to refund to them moneys thus expended."

It would seem that there coald have been no question in the as to who should pay the costs of such a remoral as beginning that. It should not even have been a tax on the general Gov- ernment, but on the State of Minnesota, which demanded it- especially as there was no shadow of doubt that the demand was made-not because the citizens of Minnesota had any real fear of the peaceable and kindly Winnebagoes (who were as much in terror of the Sioux as they were themselves), but be- canse tlhey "coveted the splendid country the Winnebagoes occupying, and the Sioux difficultics farnished the pretext to get rid of them with the aid of Congressional legislation,"

Some members of the tribe who remained in Minnesota were still elaimed their "allotted " lands; "their share of all moneys payable to the WVinnebagoes under treaty stipulations, and that their slare of the funds of the tribe be capitalized and paid to them in bulk; their peculiar relations as Indians be dissolved, and they left to merge themselves in tho commumity where they have cast their lot." The commissioner urges upon the Government compliance with these requests.

In 1868 a school was opened on the Winncbago Agency, and had a daily attendance of one hundred and fifty scholars. The tribe adopted the year was ono of peace and quietness, with the exception of some dissatisfaction on the part of tho Indians in regard to three bundred cows, which, having been sent to the agency in a code of laws for their government, and