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THEY ILL
THAT WAY.
Earmer Gaff once gave utterance
to as exclamation that has become
classic to the elders of this reser
vation. It was away back ia'those
days when this reservation was
net when the United States In
dian agency for the Chippewas
wa located upon the eastern
high bank of tho Crow Wing
river, a few miles above its con
fluence with the Mississippi.
Opposite the mouth of the Crow
Wing river was the village of
Crow Wing, the old homo of so
many of the proaent residents of
this reservation and the final
rendevons before leaving for their
Jpmes, of the various bands of In
dians, who had been summoned
from North, East and West to re
ceive and acknowledge receipts of
blankets, clothes and other art
icles oi merchandise, and the very
hard cash which tho Great Father
at Wash-ton-oong had sent out to
them in fulfillment of treaties
long drawn out. Here to were
tlie headquarters of the various
traders who did business through
out the wooded and prairie re
gions of northwestern Minnesota.
