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Show gardens and well-cultivated fields. Their schools are well attended and a deep interest is a,pparent in regard to the snbject of education and moral irnpro\~ement~a,n d it is hoped that in a few years they will take rank with the tribes most advanced in civilization. INDEPENDENT AGENCIES Are those embracing Indians iu the States of Minnesota,,Wisconsin, Iowa, Michigan, and New Pork, and not under the supervis~ono f a su-perintendent, each agent in charge being directly responsible to thede-partment. Chippelcas of the Mississippi, comprising the Pembina, Red Lake, Pillager, Lake Winnebagoshish, and Mississippi tribes, number about 6,200. The Pembina Indians reside on the extreme northeast part of Dakot,a Territory, and lead a roving life, on or near the Pembina River, subsisting by the chase, and receive annuities of money and -eo ods from the govenlnient. . . The Red Lake Indians, in the vicinity of the lake from which they de-rive'their name, subsist by hunting, tfapping, and fishing. They are lnd~lstriousa nd well-behaved. and dewre to be orovided with a school. ~~ ~~ Their agent recommends thit the mill, operatkg by water-power, be substituted by one worked by steam, as it is out of condition, the freshet in the spring having washed away pa.rt of the dam. Pillager and Lake Winnebagoshish Iudians, the most numerousin the agency, live by fishing, gathering wild rice, and upon what they steal, and a,re disposed to make trouble, having in July last burned a fine steam saw and grist mill at Leech Lake, thereby preventing the comple-tion of the agency buildings at that point. Someinterest is shown in the cause of education, and more school accommodation is required than t.hat already famished. Complaintsare made of the immoral habits of the gov-ernment employiis and whites, transiently bn the re~ervationp, resenting great obstacles in the way of benefiting these Indians, and being the cause of the demoralization of the best of their females. It is reoom-mended that a road be opened from Leech Lake to the White Earth reservation, and the completion of that between this lake and Red Lake;,alxo, the finishing t'he agency buildings referred to, which are becoming worthless from exposure. Mississippi Indians are divided into bands called the Mille Lac, White Earth, White Oak Point, Sandy Lake, and Gull Lake, a portion of whom reside on their reservations, but most of them wander over their old hunting ground. With the exceptior~o f the Mille Lao bsnd, who are adlowed to remain on the land ceded by these bands, in their treaty of 1867. they are to remove to the White Earth reservation. a tract of the reservation, where the^ are making an eainest effort to"improve t,Leir condition. Chippmas of Lake Superior number a little over 6,000, all loca ted upon seven reservations, via : Red Cliff, Bad River, Lac du Flam-beau, and Lac Courte Oreille, in Wisconsin, and Fond du Lac, Grand Portage, and Net Lake, in Mili~nesota, containing good land, well ' timbered and watered, and lakes aboundlug with fish. Some of the Iudians are making slow progress in their endeavors to become self-sus-taining, and follow the example of the better class of whites, but with most of them there is apparently no change, as they still roam, hunting, fishing, and gathering rice for a support, living on their reservation |