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as it is now; also that in crossing a stream down the caual, which was 

 very full of fish, He slipped again, and then cursed the stream, and 

 hence fish never go up this stream, though they inhabit all others. 



Resurrection of the dead. — None according to their old ideas; the spirit 

 went to the spirit-land; the body was not raised in this world, but grad- 

 ually, as it decomposed, was taken there also. 



Hetrihution. — That the wicked will be turned into a rock or animal, 

 formerly. Now, most believe in future punishment as taught in the 

 Bible. 



Merit and demerit in sight of Deity. — All were good except the very 

 bad, ft>rmerly. They had no dividing line. The Great Spirit divided 

 the good from the bad at death. 



Eternity of happiness and ivoe. — Happiness was eternal. The wicked 

 were turned into a rock and always remained so, or into an animal, 

 as long as it lived. At present most believe in the eternity of hap- 

 piness and woe, as taught in the Bible. 



Progress in religion. — It is but four years and a half since the first 

 Protestant services were held among them. About twenty-three years 

 ago, a Roman Catholic priest taught them a little and baptized some; 

 but this instruction was given up a long time ago, and most of them 

 have given up their belief in it. When the present Indian policy" began, 

 four and a half years ago, this reservation was turned over to the Cou- 

 gregationalists under the American Missionary Association. The attend- 

 ance on the sabbath services has been increasing every summer, the 

 Sabbath attendance averaging about eighty during the past summer 

 (1875). In the winter there are not so many, as most of them live from 

 one to three miles away, and the weather is often bad. One of their 

 number has united with the church here, and there are others whom 1 

 believe to be Christians. Most of them say they believe the Bible is true, 

 and that Christ came to this world; but still they cling strongly to their 

 tamanamus, some of them I think as a religion, and some merely as a 

 superstition. The ideas of many in regard to the Bible are dim yet, even 

 respecting the most important truths, and this is not strange when we 

 remember that they cannot read. They are in a transition state in this 

 respect, as in many others. 



