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for an agency to be established on the Bois Fort Reserve, and in 1907, he 

 went to Washington with Interpreter Rev. Frank H. Pequette and after a 

 lengthy talk with the Honorable Commissioner of Indian Affairs, he was 

 promised an agency at Nett Lake, and, in compliance -with that promise, 

 the agency was established there under Mr. Thomas J. Jackson in the spring 

 of 1908. 



Having gained the first demand, Mr. Day commenced to try to get the 

 Bois Fort treaty with the Government of 1866 carried out. In this treaty 



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among other things, the Government promised the Indians that eight houses 

 would be built on the Bois Fort Reserve for the chiefs and that a sawmill, 

 carpenter shop and blacksmith shop Avould be installed there and kept in 

 operation. The eight houses were built, but at Farmer John's Landing on 

 Pelican Lake, nine miles east of Nett Lake, and no sawmill or shop of an\^ 

 sort was furnished; the only possible explanation why the houses were built 

 at Pelican Lake and not at Nett Lake in that the contractors were too lazy 

 to go to Nett Lake to build them. Mr. Day maintained that the houses 

 were not built on the reserve and consequently did not fulfill the treaty 

 stipulations. For years he kept up his clamoring till not only did the gov- 



