Indians by the white men, and proposed to the braves that they should make a generai attack on the whites. By the inflnence of some of 1he half-breeds, and of wlite men who were known to be fricndly to them, Lean Bear was induced to abandon his scheme; and finally, the trilbc, bcing starving, consented to give up their lands and sccept the sunı of money offered to them

Over $55,000 of this treaty money, paid for debts of the In dians, went to onc Huglh Tyler, a strauger in the country, 'for getting the treaties through the Senate, and for necessary dis bursements in securing the assent of the chiefs. "

Five years later another trader, under the prctence that he was going to get back for them some of this stolen treaty money, ob- tained their signaturc to vouchers, by means of which he cheated them out of $12,000 morc. ment of $4500 for goods he said they had stolen from him. An other man was allowed a claim of $5000 for horses he said they had stolen from him

"In 1858 the chiefs were taken to Washington, and agreed to the treaties for the cession of all their reservation north of the Minnesota River, uuder which, as ratified by tlie Scnate, they were to have $160,000; but of this amount thcy ncver reccived one penny till four years afterward, when $15,000 in goods were sent to the Lower Sioux, and these were deducted out of what was due them under former treaties."-Ilistory of the Biour War, by ISAAC V. D. HEARD

This paragraph gives the causes of the fearful Minnesota massacre, in wich eight hundred people lost their lives.

The treaty expressly provided that no claims against the Indians should bc paid unlcss approved by the Indians in open council. No such council was held. A secret coucil was held At this samc time he obtained a pay with a few chiefs, but the body of the Indians were ignorant of it There was a clause in this treaty that the Secretary of the Interior miglt use any funds of the Indians for such purposes of civifization as his judgment should dietate. Under this clause the avails of over six lhundred thousand acres of land were taken for elaims against the Indians. Of the vast amount due to the Lower Sioax, only a little over $800 was left to their credit in Washington at the time of the outbreak. BMorcover, a portion of their annual annuity was also taken for clainis.