CHAPTER XIX.

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