Chapter X
Taliaferro writes: “It was some length of time before he could induce the Indians to respect the Sabbath-day—all days being alike to them. It so happened that hundreds of important peace conventions were made and confirmed by the hostile tribes on the Lord’s day. But time and patience brought them to reason, and for many years they respected the white man’s great ‘medicine day.’ The sign given for the day of rest was the agency flag floating from the flagstaff, at the agency council house.”—Auto-biography of Maj. Lawrence Taliaferro in the Minnesota Historical Collections, Vol. VI, p. 236. 406
Missionary Herald, Vol. 45, p. 429, December, 1849. 407
Minnesota Historical Collections, Vol. XII, pp. 326, 327; Taliaferro’s Diary, August 14, 1833. 408
Street to Taliaferro, August 12, 1829.—Taliaferro Letters, Vol. II, No. 108. 409
Minnesota Historical Collections, Vol. II, pp. 119–121. 410
Taliaferro to Eaton.—Indian Office Files, 1830, No. 151. 411
Taliaferro’s Diary, April 18, May 1, June 8, 1831. 412
Taliaferro’s Diary, August 14, 1833. 413
Taliaferro’s Diary, April 18, 1831. 414
Pond’s Two Volunteer Missionaries among the Dakotas, p. iv. 415
Auto-biography of Maj. Lawrence Taliaferro in the Minnesota Historical Collections, Vol. VI, p. 255. 416
Senate Documents, 3rd Session, 25th Congress, Vol. I, Document No. 1, p. 523. 417
Pond’s Two Volunteer Missionaries among the Dakotas, pp. 12–30. This volume, written by the son of Samuel Pond, tells of the work of his father and uncle. 418
Pond’s Two Volunteer Missionaries among the Dakotas, p. 30. Among the Kemper Papers (Vol. XX, No. 34) the writer found the following permit to enter the Indian country: “The Right Reverend, Jackson Kemper, Missionary Bishop of the Protestant Episcopal Church, having signified to this Department, his desire to visit and remain sometime in the Indian country, and requested the permission required by law to enable him to do so, such permission is hereby granted; and he is commended to the friendly attention of civil and military officers and agents, and of citizens, and if at any time it shall be necessary to their protection.” “Given under my hand and
the Seal of the War Department
this 1st day of October 1838.” “S. Cooper.
Acting Secretary of War.” 419
Pond’s Two Volunteer Missionaries among the Dakotas, pp. 31, 32; Minnesota Historical Collections, Vol. XII, pp. 324, 325. 420
Taliaferro’s Diary, July 7, 1834. 421
Pond’s Two Volunteer Missionaries among the Dakotas, pp. 38–42. 422
Pond’s Two Volunteer Missionaries among the Dakotas, p. 47. 423
Featherstonhaugh’s A Canoe Voyage up the Minnay Sotor, Vol. II, p. 11. 424
Pond’s Two Volunteer Missionaries among the Dakotas, p. 43. 425
Minnesota Historical Collections, Vol. VI, pp. 127–146. 426
Pond’s Two Volunteer Missionaries among the Dakotas, pp. 127, 133. 427
Executive Documents, 1st Session, 31st Congress, Vol. III, Pt. II, Document No. 5, pp. 1054, 1055. 428
Riggs’s Mary and I, Forty Years with the Sioux, pp. 41, 42. 429
Pond’s Two Volunteer Missionaries among the Dakotas, pp. 49–59. 430
Executive Documents, 2nd Session, 29th Congress, Vol. I, Document No. 4, p. 315. 431
Executive Documents, 1st Session, 32nd Congress, Vol II, Pt. III, p. 439. 432
Minnesota Historical Collections, Vol. VI, p. 343. 433
Pond’s Two Volunteer Missionaries among the Dakotas, pp. 63, 64. 434
Missionary Herald, Vol. 41, p. 281, August, 1845; Vol. 32, pp. 188, 189, May, 1836. 435
The Spirit of Missions, Vol. IV, p. 61, February, 1839; Tanner’s History of the Diocese of Minnesota, p. 24; Post Returns, April, 1839, in the archives of the War Department, Washington, D. C. 436
Gear to Kemper, Nov. 29, 1841.—Kemper Letters, Vol. 25, No. 103. See also The Spirit of Missions, Vol. 5, p. 68, March, 1840. 437
Acta et Dicta, Vol. I, No. 1, July, 1907, pp. 14–21; Minnesota Historical Collections, Vol. III, pp. 222–230. 438