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