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even begun. The winter previous to the advent of Mr. Williamson, the sister-in-law of the Agent had had a little school of half-breeds whom she taught to read English. The Indians were entirely with out the means of instruction or any assistance toward a better mode of life.

Mr Williamson had been laboring among the Santees, who are located some 40 miles south of the Yanktons, and he occasionally rode up to the latter's Reservation & [[strikethrough]] made [[/strike-through]] was therefore known to some of the Yankton Indians when he settled among them.

The first thing to do ^after his arrival^ was to secure a place in which to open a school & hold church service. This is no easy task on a Reservation, for all the Indians live in tents, or did at that time, and he must ^therefore^ secure some government building. There was a large log house used for storage
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