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Updated: May 6, 2025

The disinclination of many of the Indians to work gradually produced dissension among themselves and they formed into two parties the white man's party, those that believed in cultivating the soil; and the Indian party, a sort of young-man-afraid-of-work association, who believed it beneath the dignity of the noble Dakotan to perform manual labor.

Frank Moore - Reminiscences of Pioneer Days in St. Paul