Portage, Red Cliff, Bad River, Lac de Flambeau, and Lac Court D'Oreille) nunber about 5150. They constitute a part of tlie Ojibways (angiicized in the term Chippewas), formerly one of the most powerful and warlike nations in the nortl-west, enbracing many hands, and ranging over an immense territory, extending along the shores of Lakes Huron, Michigan, and Superior to the steppes of the Upper Mississippi. Of this great nation large num bers are still found in Minnesota, many in Michigan, and a frag- ment in Kansas.

The bands above mentioned by name are at present located on several small reservations sct apart for them by treatics of Sep- tember 30t, 1854, and April 7th, 1888, i Wiscousin and Minne- sota, comprising in all about G95,290 acres. By Act of Congress of May 20th, 1872, provision was made for the sale, with the con sent of the Indians, of three of these reservations, viz., the Tac de Flambeau and Lac Court D Oreille in Wisconsin, and the Fond du Lac in Minnesota; and for the removal of the Indians located thereon to the Bad River Rcservation, where there is plenty of good arable land, and where they can be properly cared for, aud instructed in agriculture and mechanics.

The greater part of these Indians at present lead a somewhat roving life, inding their subsistence chiefly in game hunted by them, in te rice gathered in its wild state, and in the fish afford ed by waters conveniently near. Comparatively little is done in the way of cultivating the soil. Certain bands have of late been greatly demoralized by contact with persons employed in the con struction of the Northern Pacifie Railroad, the linc of whieh runs near one (tle Fond du Lac) of their reservations. Portions of this people, however, especialy those situated at the Bad River Reservation, have begun to evince an earncst desire for self-im pruyement. Many live in houses of rude construction, and raise small crops of grain and vegetables; otlhers labor among the whites; and a namber find employment in eutting rails, fence posts, and saw-logs for the Government. In regard to the cfforts made to instruct the children in letters, it imay be said thnt, with out being altogether fruitless, the results have been thus far mea gre and somewhat discouraging. The majority of tlie parents pro- fess to wish to have their children edncated, and ask for schools but when tlhe nicans are provided and the work undertaken, the lifficulties in the way of success to any eousiderable extent appear in the undisciplined eharacter of the seholars, which has to be overcome by the teaclher without parental co-operation, and in