to the different tribes on the rivers Athabasca and Mackenzie, Peace river and Slave lake.
Within the limits, as far as they have traveled, are found the Blackfeet, trees, Assiniboins of the Forest and of the Mountains, Beaver Hunters, Flatside Dogs, Slaves and Deer Skins. (It is by these names that the different Indians are known among the whites and travelers.)
The great Indian district of the United States is (if I may say so) the only one deprived of spiritual succor and the means of salvation. It contains several hundred thousand savages. This vast territory is bounded on the northwest by the Anglo-Inuian possessions -east by the Western States - south by Texas and Mexico - west by the Rocky Mountains. It contains many forts or trading-houses, in which the greater number of persons employed are Canadian Catholics or French Creoles. The principal of these forts are. Fort des Corbeaux, or Alexander, on the Yellowstone, Fort Laramie, on a branch of the river Platte, Fort Osage, on the river of the same name - Fort Fled -noir, or Lewis, near the mouth of the river Maria, Fort Union near the mouth of the Yellowstone, Fort Berthold, Fort Mandan or Clark near the mouth of the little Missouri, Fort Pierre, Fort Lookout and Fort Vermillion at the mouth of this river, the other
idnig-houses among the Potawatomies of Council Bluffs and of Bellevue for the Otoes and Pawnees. The great depository which furnishes these forts and receives all the peltry and buffalo hides is kept at St. Loui
Monseigneur Loral, Bishop of Dubuque, has sent two priests among the Sioux on the river St. Peter, a tributary 4 the NINAssippi.
The Society of Jesus has a mission among; the Potawatoinies on Sugar creek, a tributary of the Osage river. The hadi" of the Sacred Heart have an establishment here. During the smunier of 1841 the late distinguished 'Madame de Galitzin, provincial of the Order in America, visited this section of the country for the purpose of founding among these rude savages a house of education, in which the hop_