fioneee life.; OE, 



The effect of the gospel in promoting morality and 

 ^civilization, may be learned in part from the fact that 

 the public worship of God has been steadily main- 

 tained ever since the organization of the church, 

 with members ranging from fifty to one hundred, 

 and sometimes one hundred and fifty and two hun- 

 dred as regular hearers of the word. A Sabbath 

 school has been sustained a considerable share of 

 the time. Many copies of the Holy Scriptures, and 

 the Kew Testament, together with tracts, Sabbath 

 school books, temperance papers, and religious peri- 

 odicals, having been circulated among the chil- 

 dren and youth. Temperance societies have been 

 patronized by nearly all the chiefs and leading men 

 en the reservation. Pledges have been circulated 

 and received the signatures of a large majority of 

 the population, of all parties, on the Washingtonian 

 plan. 



Day schools for teaching the English language 

 have been kept in operation almost without interrup- 

 tion for more than twenty years, under the patronage 

 of the A. B. C. F. M. 



During the thirteen years that I have superintend- 

 ed these schools, nearly thirty different persons have 

 engaged for a longer or shorter time, as teachers. 

 I?or the past year there have been four schools under 

 the patronage of the American Board, and one 

 under the Society of Friends. The whole number 

 who have been instructed in the five schools is prob- 

 ably not far from one hundred and twenty-five. The 

 attendance of a part has been very irregular, some- 



