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and other fittings made. "Nana grub? seemed friendly enough, but so soon as the suiter left his wigwam, he sent runners to the other chiefs telling them of the presence of a white now on the reservation, and advising the calling of a council to ? the author, and investigate the propriety of allowing him to continue his work of collecting data, but before the council was held the information was gleaned and the author gone.

As far as morals are concerned the indian of both the Dakota and Ojibway nation is very lax and their conversation even in the presence of the squaws is lewd at the same time the indian does not consider it indecent, they joke and jest among themselves in the brashest? manner and think nothing of it. A man will use language addressed to his neighbors again in the presence of her husband, who where he a white man might result in harm to one or the other, or both, but the indian considers it a good joke and his highly amused. A chief considers it a mark of respect and of great hospitality to offer his squaw or a grown daughter to a visitor and does not appreciate it when the white man refuses to accept of her. The woman her self is nothing to them she is considered as so much property her [[?}] and ? has bought her: and her father has the right to sell her, hence she has no voice in the matter.

In his domestic life the indian is in the main good natured, He never as a rule quarrels, or fights as does his white neighbor. he never has encounters with the fists. If angry it is from an injury done and that requires vengeance which is usually summary. Their play is rough and usually good natured. The father is usually very fond of his children especially his sons. and this results naturally from the fact that the assist him in ? and are companionable to him while the girls are sooner or later to be bargained away as wives and drudges to some other man. At the same time a father will follow and enemy and arrange the death of a girl as well as that of a son, but the latter are more exposed and hence the necessity crossed out - in the indian mind to avenge a son is more frequent that that of a daughter. An instance is on record when a father followed and waited for four years before he got a chance to avenge the death of his son.