1866-1869.--Prisoners Meet their Families at the Niobrara.--Our Summer's Visitation.--At the Scouts' Camp.--Crossing the Prairie.--Killing Buffalo.--At Niobrara.--Religious Meetings.--Licensing Natives.--Visiting the Omahas.--Scripture Translating.--Sisseton Treaty at Washington.--Second Visit to the Santees.--Artemas and Titus Ordained.--Crossing to the Head of the Coteau.--Organizing Churches and Licensing Dakotas.--Solomon, Robert, Louis, Daniel.--On Horseback in 1868.--Visit to the Santees, Yanktons, and Brules.--Gathering at Dry Wood.--Solomon Ordained.--Writing "Takoo Wakan."--Mary's Sickness.--Grand Hymns.--Going through the Valley of the Shadow.--Death! 230 CHAPTER XVI. 1869-1870.--Home Desolate.--At the General Assembly.--Summer Campaign.--A. L. Riggs.--His Story of Early Life.--Inside View of Missions.--Why Missionaries' Children Become Missionaries.--No Constraint Laid on Them.--A. L. Riggs Visits the Missouri Sioux.--Up the River.--The Brules.--Cheyenne and Grand River.--Starting for Fort Wadsworth.--Sun Eclipsed.--Sisseton Reserve.--Deciding to Build There.--In the Autumn Assembly.--My Mother's Home.--Winter Visit to Santee.--Julia La Framboise 244 CHAPTER XVII. 1870-1871.--Beloit Home Broken Up.--Building on the Sisseton Reserve.--Difficulties and Cost.--Correspondence with Washington.--Order to Suspend Work.--Disregarding the Taboo.--Anna Sick at Beloit.--Assurance.--Martha Goes in Anna's Place.--The Dakota Churches.--Lac-qui-parle, Ascension.--John B. Renville.--Daniel Renville.--Houses of Worship.--Eight Churches.--The "Word Carrier."--Annual Meeting on the Big Sioux.--Homestead Colony.--How it Came about.--Joseph Iron Old Man.--Perished in a Snow Storm.--The Dakota Mission Divides.--Reasons Therefor 256 CHAPTER XVIII. 1870-1873.--A. L. Riggs Builds at Santee.--The Santee High School.--Visit to Fort Sully.--Change of Agents at Sisseton.--Second Marriage.--Annual Meeting at Good Will.--Grand Gathering.--New Treaty Made at Sisseton.--Nina Foster Riggs.--Our Trip to Fort Sully.--An Incident by the Way.--Stop at Santee.--Pastor Ehnamane.--His Deer Hunt.--Annual Meeting in 1873.--Rev. S. J. Humphrey's Visit.--Mr. Humphrey's Sketch.--Where They Come From.--Morning Call.--Visiting the Teepees.--The Religious Gathering.--The Moderator.--Questions Discussed.--The _Personnel_.--Putting up a Tent.--Sabbath Service.--Mission Reunion. 270 CHAPTER XIX.