g two-score lives. One Indian alone, John
Other-Day, saved the lives of sixty-two whites. One elder of the
church, Simon Anakwangnanne, restored a captive white woman and three
children. And still another, Paul Mintakutemanne, rescued a white woman
and several children and a whole family of half-breeds. These truly
"good Indians" saved the lives of more than their own number of
whites,--probably two hundred souls in all.

In token of her appreciation of these invaluable services, Minnesota
has caused a monument to be erected in honor of these real braves, on
the very plains, then swept by the Sioux with fire and blood, in their
savage wrath.

It is located on the battlefield of Birch Coullie, near Morton in
Renville County. The cenotaph is built entirely of native stone of
different varieties. It rises to the height of fifty-eight feet above
the beautiful prairies by which it is surrounded. It bears this
appropriate inscription

HUMANITY.

Erected A.D. 1899, by the Minnesota Valley Historical Society
to commemorate the brave, faithful and humane conduct of the
loyal Indians who saved the lives of white people and were true
to their obligations throughout the Sioux war in Minnesota in
1862, and especially to honor the services of those here named:

Other Day--Ampatutoricna.
Paul--Mintakutemanne.
Lorenzo Lawrence--Towanctaton.
Simon--Anakwangnanne.
Mary Crooks--Mankahta Heita-win.

Chapter IV.

"Who are these that fly as a cloud, and as the doves to their
windows?"--_Isaiah 60:8._

But now occurred the strangest phase of this wondrously strange story.
In November, 1862, four hundred defeated Indian warriors, many of them
leaders of their people, were confined in prison-pens at Mankato,
Minnesota. While free on the prairies, these wild warriors had bitterly
hated the missionaries with all the intensity of their savage natures.
They had vigorously opposed every effort of the missionaries in their
behalf. They had scornfully rejected the invitations of the Gospel. But
now in their claims, they earnestly desired to hear the glad tidings
they had formerly scorned. They sent for the missionaries to visit them
in prison and the missionaries responded with eager joy. And the Holy
Spirit accompanied them. Thirty-eight of the prisoners were under the
death-sentence and were executed in December.

"I remember," said Dr. Williamson, "feeling a great desire to preach to