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erment build eight houses on the reservation for the chiefs, l)ut an additional 

 fourteen houses for the aged and indigent Indians of the triba, and in 1914 

 he secured the carpenter shop, blacksmith shop and sawmill. 



Another thing which Mr. Day has concerned himself about is our relations 

 with England. When the treaty of 1783 was signed at Paris the boundary 

 between the United States and Canada from Lake Superior to the Lake of 

 the Woods was placed along the main watercourse of the Rainy Lake, Rainy 

 River route and the main tributary coming into Rainy Lake from the east. 

 Then when the survej* and adjustment was made, a lesser stream north of 

 the main eastern tributary was made the boundary, the Indians maintain. 

 Mr. Day has made two trips to Washington to have this adjusted and has 

 also laid the case before several congressmen. While Air. Day will probably 

 never realize on this demand, which Avould gain the United States much 

 valuable land, it shows his wide-awakeness and. his interest in things. 



While Mr. Day is uneducated, his main hobbj' is education. There is 

 no person in Minnesota more earnest on schools than this old chief. His 

 demand is a boarding school at Xett Lake. The Government maintains 

 that the Indian school at Tower, Minn., was built for the Bois Fort Indians; 

 but the old chief maintains that the boarding school should have been built 

 at Nett Lake and still demands that it be built there. The Government 

 has built a nice day school at Xett Lake which is Avell attended, but when 

 it comes to sending children to the boarding school at Tower, the old chief 

 says, "No. Let the Government build a boarding school here as it agreed 

 to and we will see that our childn-n go to it." Furthermore, he has made 

 several trips to Washington to demand that a boarding school be erected 

 at Nett Lake and it is to be hoped he will live to see his greatest desire granted 

 by the government. 



Could Mr. Day have V)een educated, he would have made an able lawyer 

 and statesman. 



