1873-1874.--The American Board at Minneapolis.--The _Nidus_ of the Dakota Mission.--Large Indian Delegation.--Ehnamane and Mazakootemane.--"Then and Now."--The Woman's Meeting.--Nina Foster Riggs and Lizzie Bishop.--Miss Bishop's Work and Early Death.--Manual Labor Boarding-School at Sisseton.--Building Dedicated.--M. N. Adams, Agent.--School Opened.--Mrs. Armor and Mrs. Morris.--"My Darling in God's Garden."--Visit to Fort Berthold.--Mandans, Rees, and Hidatsa.--Dr. W. Matthews' Hidatsa Grammar.--Beliefs.--Missionary Interest in Berthold.--Down the Missouri.--Annual Meeting at Santee.--Normal School.--Dakotas Build a Church at Ascension.--Journey to the Ojibwas with E. P. Wheeler.--Leech Lake and Red Lake.--On the Gitche Gumme.--"The Stoneys."--Visit to Odanah.--Hope for Ojibwas 288 CHAPTER XX. 1875-1876.--Annual Meeting of 1875.--Homestead Settlement on the Big Sioux.--Interest of the Conference.--_Iapi Oaye._--Inception of Native Missionary Work.--Theological Class.--The Dakota Home.--Charles L. Hall Ordained.--Dr. Magoun of Iowa.--Mr. and Mrs. Hall Sent to Berthold by the American Board.--The _Word Carrier's_ Good Words to Them.--The Conference of 1876.--In J. B. Renville's Church.--Coming to the Meeting from Sully.--Miss Whipple's Story.--"Dakota Missionary Society."--Miss Collins' Story.--Impressions of the Meeting 308 CHAPTER XXI. 1871-1877.--The Wilder Sioux.--Gradual Openings.--Thomas Lawrence.--Visit to the Land of the Teetons.--Fort Sully.--Hope Station.--Mrs. General Stanley in the _Evangelist_.--Work by Native Teachers.--Thomas Married to Nina Foster.--Nina's First Visit to Sully.--Attending the Conference and American Board.--Miss Collins and Miss Whipple.--Bogue Station.--The Mission Surroundings.--Chapel Built.--Mission Work.--Church Organized.--Sioux War of 1876.--Community Excited.--Schools.--"Waiting for a Boat."--Miss Whipple Dies at Chicago.--Mrs. Nina Riggs' Tribute.--The Conference of 1877 at Sully.--Questions Discussed.--Grand Impressions 325 APPENDIX. MONOGRAPHS. MRS. NINA FOSTER RIGGS 345 REV. GIDEON H. POND 361 SOLOMON 374 DR. T. S. WILLIAMSON 382 A MEMORIAL 399 THE FAMILY REUNION 408 MARY AND I. FORTY YEARS WITH THE SIOUX. CHAPTER I.