As we sat in the school-house, one, two, three Indian men came in to prefer a request, but not one of them took off his hat.

We entered a cabin and found a big he-Indian lying on his bed.

"Are you sick ?" inquired Mr.
Burchard, and the lazy hound, without offering to rise, muttered "No; me lying down." The agent, in reply to my questions, said that they gambled a good deal for money and beads during the week, but he had forbidden it on Sundays; and he would not allow them to gamble away their clothing, as they formerly did.
There are about eighty scholars on the school-list, and about fifty attend school.

Was there any compulsion used?
I asked, and he said No.

Now surely here, if anywhere, one might begin with a compulsory school-law.
Did he attempt to regulate the conduct of the growing boys and girls?
No.
Do the Indians marry on the reservation?
No.