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ar(> com puled ten thousand tighting men." ' In 1804 this entry was 

 made in the Journal of the Lewis and Clark Expedition: "At 6 oC 

 in the evening we Seen 4 -Indians . . . and thr(M\ of them . . . belonged 

 to the Souix nation." ^ But as white men came into closer contact 

 with this tribe they began to use the word used by the Indians 

 themselves. Tims in tlie "Scientific Data accompanying the orig- 

 inal journals of the Lewis and Clark Expedition," under the heading 

 "Ethnology," we find mention of the "Sieux or Dar-co-tars," with 

 an extensive description of the tribe, including a table of its sub- 

 divisions, which is probably the one sent l)y Clark to the Secretary of 

 War.^ Gradually the native name came into more general use, with 

 various modes of spelling, and in 1823 Major Long noted the "man- 

 ners and customs of the Dacota Indians." ^ However, the word 

 "Sioux" received the sanction of official usage in 1825, the statement 

 being made in a Government document of that year that "Returns 

 have been received from Gen. Clark and Gov. Cass, the commis- 

 sioners appointed to mediate, at Prairie Du Chien, between the Sioux, 

 Sac, Fox, Iowa, Chippewa, Menomonei, and Winnebago Tribes and to 

 establish boundaries between them." ^ 



On April 29, 1868, a treaty was made by the Government with the 

 Sioux and Arapaho Indians, which opens with the words: "From 

 this day forward aU war between the parties to this agreement shall 

 forever cease. The Government of the United States desires peace, 

 and its honor is hereby pledged to keep it. The Indians desire peace, 

 and they now pledge their honor to maintain it." "^ The Sioux Reser- 

 vation established at that time comprised about 20,000,000 acres of 

 land, extending from the northern boundary of Nebraska to the 

 forty-sixth degree of north latitude, and from the eastern ])ank of the 

 Missouri River to the one hundred and fourth meridian of longitude.'' 

 This was known as "the Great Sioux Reservation." By the terms 

 of this treaty the Government placed agency buildings and schools 

 on the reservation, and provided that, under certain conditions, a 

 patent for 160 acres of land could be issued to an Indian, who would 

 therel)y become a citizen of the United States. The affairs of the 

 Indians were administered at seven agencies on this reservation, but 

 the Indians continued in large measure their old manner of life. 



' Journal of Col. George Croghan, pp. 37-38; reprinted from Featherstoiihaugh, in Amcr. Mo. Jouni. 

 Gfoi., Dec., 1831. 



' Original Journals of the Lewis and Clark E.xpedition, 1804-1800, Reuben tlold Thwaites ed., vii, p. Gl, 

 New York, 1905. 



3Ibid., VI, pp. 93-100. 



■• Keating, WiUiam H., Narrative of an Expedition to the Source of St. Peters Kiver, under the Com- 

 mand of Maj. Stephen H. Long, i, p. 245, Philadelphia, 1824. 



!> McKenney, Thomas L., in documents accompanying the President's Message to Congress, Nineteenth 

 Congress, First Se.ssion, No. 1, p. 90, 1825. 



6 Indian Laws and Treaties, compiled by Charles J. Kappler, vol. 2, pp. 770-75, Washington, P. C, 1903. 



" The writer gratefully acknowledges the assistance of Maj. James McLaughlin, United States Indian 

 Inspector, in preparing the following data concerning tlie Standing Rock Reservation. Major McLaughlin 

 was Indian agent on this reservation from 1881 to 1895. 



