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Rock Agency, Dakota; Flathead Indian Agency, Montana; Umatilla Indian Agency, Oregon; Grand Ronde Agency, Oregon; Colville Indian Agency, Washington Territory; Tulalip Indian Agency, Washington Territory; also at Cœur d'Alêne Indian Reservation, Idaho; Menomonee Indian Reservation, Wisconsin; Feehanville, Illinois; Clontarf, Minnesota; Avoca, Minnesota; Collegeville, Minnesota; White Earth Indian Agency, Minnesota.

UNITED PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH MISSION.

In 1869 the Warm Springs Agency, Oregon, was assigned to this denomination.

The following statement is furnished by their board of home missions:1

Our work is among the Warm Springs and other tribes, or parts of tribes, collected upon the Warm Springs Reservation in eastern Oregon. The Rev. R. W. McBride and wife are the missionaries. Our church has erected a home for them at the agency, where we have a congregation of seventy-seven members, made up almost entirely of Indian Christians. At Sinemasho, 20 miles north of the agency, a Sabbath-school is regularly maintained, with the help of white people, on or near the reservation, and Mr. McBride frequently visits and preaches to the Indians in that vicinity, but as yet we have no regular church organized. The progress made, though slow, is encouraging. The Indians generally show an earnest desire to be taught the Gospel, attending services well, and sending their children to the Sabbath-schools. Besides the building of the home for our missionary, which cost over $1,600, we have spent upon the mission work in the last seven years $6,450.

'Furnished June 28, 1837, by William S. Owens, D. D., corresponding secretary.

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