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2d. To break up communism-a worthless, lazy Indian throwing himself wantonly on a working Indian for support.

3d. To gather around them the comforts of life, and to enjoy them without molestation.

4th. To burst the bonds of tutelage, and to enjoy the manly privileges of freedom.

5th. To make them look to their farms for support, giving up hunting, rambling, and marauding with war parties.

6th. Because it plainly appears to them that it is the will of Heaven, and the desire of the government, that they should adopt the modes and laws of civilized life.

Some certain prairie Indians, medicine men, with painted faces, who are opposed to Christianity and civilization, and greatly in the minority as regards number, want to remain as they are, and they are said to allege the following reasons:

1. Because they are Indians, and ought to remain Indians.

2. Because they live like jolly fellows, without working, without laws, and without praying.

3. Because the Great Spirit would be angry with us if we throw aside our bow and arrow.

4. Because a little cabin, with a patch of corn and pumpkins, are all the earthly goods we desire.

5. Because our braves must have two squaws for wives, and occasionally a jug of whiskey; and if the land be divided we will be robbed of those glorious liberties.

6. Because we do not dare break the customs of our forefathers and the solemn observances of our medicine bags.

We leave it to impartial judges to weigh the arguments on each side, and to decide where justice and common sense belong. Some few superstitious fellows are greatly alarmed about the land question, for they are fully convinced that the Christian Indians will carry their point; they are now opening their eyes to their sinking fortunes, and they turn their impotent spite against all those whom they believe to have been instrumental in putting the ball in motion. They complain very much against the black gowns for making some of their best men. believe in the gospel; they urge also, with a sneer, that the young squaws, the school girls of the mission, refuse to marry with their young men because they paint their faces and wear a blanket.

These proud squaws seek the hand of a white man, and their parents and friends want to divide the land, in order to have it to say that they own a domain of two hundred acres apiece; a great inducement for young men to take a claim in the Pottawatomie reserve.

Yours, respectfully,

Col. W. E. MURPHY,

J. B. DUERINCK, Superintendent of Manual Labor School.

United States Indian agent, Pottawatomie agency.

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Report of the Pottawatomie manual labor school for boys, October 1, 1856, to September, 1857.

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From October 1, 1856, till September, 1857, we have admitted seventy-three Pottawatomie boys in the male department of St. Mary's mission school.

J. B. DUERINCK, Superintendent of Pottawatomie School.

SEPTEMBER 15, 1857.

F.-Report of the Pottawatomie female manual labor school, conducted by the Ladies of the Sacred Heart, October 1, 1856, to September, 1857.

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Number of girls admitted from October 1, 1856, to September, 1857, is 92.

ST. MARY'S MISSION, KANSAS TERRITORY, September 14, 1857.

J. B. DUERINCK.

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