To view them as brutes is an insult to Him who made them and us.

May this little work do something towards exciting an interest in a single tribe out of the many whose only hope is in the mercy of the white man! RED EARTH; OR, MOCKA-DOOTA-WIN.
"Good Road" is one of the Dahcotah chiefs--he is fifty years old and has two wives, but these two have given a deal of trouble; although the chief probably thinks it of no importance whether his two wives fight all the time or not, so that they obey his orders.

For what would be a calamity in domestic life to us, is an every day affair among the Dahcotahs.
Good Road's village is situated on the banks of the St.Peter's about seven miles from Fort Snelling.

And like other Indian villages it abounds in variety more than anything else.

In the teepee the farthest from us, right on the edge of the shore, there are three young men carousing.