up stairs to the loft where the babe of the white wife was sleeping, but the child was not molested. They ransacked the house and took what they wanted, and left with a horse for Leech Lake.
The chief was buried in the Roman Catholic churchyard at Crow Wing. His son by his white wife was adopted by a family in Minneapolis, and educated in the public schools, and is now an intelligent youth. His mother afterwards married a white man by the name of Sullivan who was not as kind to her as Hole-in-the-Day.
OJIBWAYS OF MINNESOTA IN 1883.
The Ojibways of Minnesota are on three reservations at Red Lake, Leech Lake, and White Earth. The Pembina band live eighteen miles north of the White Earth agency, and the Otter Tail Pillagers dwell about eight miles east of the agency. There are also some Ojibways in the northeastern portion of the State. According to the report of U.S. Commissioner of Indian Affairs for 1883, their numbers were as follows:—
WHITE EARTH AGENCY.
Mississippi Ojibways | 896 |
Otter Tail Pillagers | 570 |
Pembina band | 235 |
Pillagers of Lakes Cass and Winnebagoshish | 351 |
Leech Lake | 1137 |
Mississippi | 95 |
Mille Lacs | 894 |
LA POINTE AGENCY. | |
Red Cliff | 188 |
Bois Forte | 700 |
Grand Portage, Lake Superior | 236 |
Fond du Lac | 431 |