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  HISTORY 
  

  

  629 
  

  

  tact 
  with 
  persons 
  who 
  could 
  speak 
  untruthfully 
  and 
  yet 
  seemingly 
  

   suffer 
  no 
  evil 
  consequences 
  and 
  it 
  is 
  not 
  surprising 
  that 
  the 
  Omaha 
  

   found 
  it 
  difficult 
  to 
  reconcile, 
  the 
  precepts 
  taught 
  by 
  the 
  missionaries 
  

   with 
  the 
  conduct 
  of 
  many 
  of 
  the 
  white 
  people 
  whom 
  he 
  met. 
  As 
  a 
  

   result, 
  he 
  could 
  not 
  give 
  hearty 
  acceptance 
  to 
  a 
  religion 
  which 
  seemed 
  

   to 
  have 
  so 
  little 
  power 
  over 
  the 
  lives 
  of 
  those 
  who 
  professed 
  it. 
  The 
  

   teaching 
  of 
  his 
  fathers 
  he 
  still 
  reverenced 
  and 
  he 
  was 
  slow 
  to 
  chansre 
  

   his 
  native 
  point 
  of 
  view 
  of 
  justice 
  and 
  of 
  truth. 
  Yet 
  there 
  were 
  here 
  

   and 
  there 
  men 
  and 
  women 
  to 
  whom 
  the 
  life 
  of 
  Jesus 
  Christ 
  appealed, 
  

  

  The 
  

  

  Fig. 
  129. 
  The 
  Omaha 
  church. 
  

  

  blockhouse" 
  which 
  formerly 
  stood 
  on 
  the 
  right 
  lias 
  been 
  removed. 
  The 
  church 
  has 
  now 
  i 
  1911) 
  

   been 
  enlarged 
  at 
  an 
  expense 
  of 
  more 
  than 
  a 
  thousand 
  dollars, 
  raised 
  by 
  the 
  Indians. 
  

  

  who 
  recognized 
  in 
  it 
  a 
  high 
  ideal 
  difficult 
  of 
  attainment, 
  and 
  perceived 
  

   that 
  failure 
  to 
  realize 
  it 
  in 
  the 
  life 
  of 
  a 
  person 
  is 
  to 
  be 
  attributed 
  to 
  the 
  

   weakness 
  of 
  the 
  individual 
  rather 
  than 
  to 
  the 
  ideal 
  itself. 
  

  

  • 
  NEW 
  RESERVATION 
  AND 
  AGENCY 
  

  

  The 
  agency 
  buildings 
  on 
  the 
  new 
  reservation 
  were 
  placed 
  about 
  

   three 
  miles 
  west 
  of 
  the 
  Missouri 
  river 
  on 
  the 
  only 
  road 
  in 
  that 
  region 
  

   which 
  ran 
  from 
  the 
  trading 
  posts 
  on 
  the 
  south 
  to 
  those 
  that 
  were 
  

   near 
  the 
  Missouri 
  farther 
  to 
  the. 
  north; 
  this 
  was 
  known 
  as 
  " 
  the 
  mili- 
  

   tary 
  road." 
  In 
  the 
  course 
  of 
  a 
  year 
  or 
  two 
  the 
  Omaha 
  divided 
  

   and 
  settled 
  in 
  three 
  villages: 
  one 
  in 
  the 
  southeastern 
  part 
  of 
  the 
  

  

  