The undersigned chiefs of the Ottawas residing at Waganakisi Arbre Croche thank the President and Congress for their efforts to bring them civilization. Trusting in their good intentions, they now ask for a minister of the same denomination as the Black Robes supplied by the French government to their parents. They are willing to be taught religion, arts, and agriculture by ministers of the Catholic religion. They ask such ministers to come and reside in the place formerly occupied by Fathers Louis Marin LeFranc and Pierre Dujaunay and others on Lake Michigan at the lower end of their village of Arbre Croche. For so doing they will pray to God to bless the president and his white children., Signed by totems of the chiefs 22 in number. Witnessed by Mathieu McGulpin and W. McGulpin?. Body of letter in handwriting of Father Gabriel Richard. :: III-2-f L.S. 3pp. 8vo., 5