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11 inevitable conclusion that these have been handed down from generation to generation. We find the Algic race familiar with and using the system of totems, or "coat of arms" analogous to that in vogue among the people of Europe, and it is impossible to suppose that this of all the savage American tribes should invent such a system, but it is very easy to see how tenacious of customs as they are they would retain the old practices, for in nothing is an indian so scrupulous as in the observance of rights and traditions handed down to him by his forefathers. Among the remains excavated from the mounds are found dishes and fragments of pottery and tiles having Runic characters and some having, inscriptions in the cuneiform characters. These fragments show beyond question that the mound builders had connections at some time with these ancient people. In many ways the Ojibway or Algic races give evidence of an origin to our mind identical with the Egyptians and Scythians and later the Celts, Picts & Scots. When we find among a people living hundreds of years after our ?, and in some instances quite, extinct race and possessing traits of character peculiar to that extinct race of people, we are forced to the conclusion that the existing people sprung from or had a common origin with those now passed away. In this place and ? it will suffice for me to say that we believe the Algic race of Indians to have been sprung from the Egyptians. Of the Dakotas the evidence is not so clear. They the Dakotas called themselves "Dakota" or "Dashkota," which means they are "friendly" or a confederation of bands. This people were first made known to the whites in 1654 and were called by the French Scioux or Sioux. The early explorer Hennepin, who called them "Nedouessaue," and La Hontan, who called them "Nedouessie," derived those names from the "Nadouessioux," or the Ojibway name for this people which meant "our