Chapter XII
Journals of Congress, Vol. III, p. 589. 474
United States Statutes at Large, Vol. I, p. 138. 475
United States Statutes at Large, Vol. XVI, p. 566. 476
Report of the Commissioner of Indian Affairs, 1890, p. xxix. 477
These figures are taken from an account of the proceedings of the council published in Niles’ Register, Vol. XXIX, pp. 187–192. Taliaferro gives the number of his party as being 385 “Sioux and Chippewas, including the interpreters and attendants.”—Auto-biography of Maj. Lawrence Taliaferro in the Minnesota Historical Collections, Vol. VI, p. 206. 478
The text of the treaty is printed in Kappler’s Indian Affairs, Laws and Treaties, Vol. II, pp. 250–255. 479
These are the reasons given by the Commissioner of Indian Affairs in his report on December 1, 1837.—Senate Documents, 2nd Session, 25th Congress, Vol. I, Document No. 1, pp. 526, 527. 480
Minnesota Historical Collections, Vol. II, p. 129. 481
Minnesota Historical Collections, Vol. II, p. 131; Vol. VI, p. 214. 482
For an account of the life of Flat Mouth see Coues’s The Expeditions of Zebulon M. Pike, Vol. I, p. 169, note 10. 483
Sketches of the life of Hole-in-the-Day are given in The Spirit of Missions, Vol. VIII, p. 461, December, 1843; North Western Gazette and Galena Advertiser, August 3, 1839; Prairie du Chien Patriot, June 8, 1847. 484
Minnesota Historical Collections, Vol. V, p. 353. 485
The names of the witnesses of the treaty are given in Kappler’s Indian Affairs, Laws and Treaties, Vol. II, p. 493. 486
A contemporary account of the proceedings of the council published in the Iowa News (Dubuque), Vol. I, Nos. 11 and 14, is reprinted in The Iowa Journal of History and Politics, Vol. IX, pp. 408–433. 487
The Iowa Journal of History and Politics, Vol. IX, p. 420. 488
Dodge to Harris, July 30, 1837.—Indian Office Files, 1837, No. 226. 489
Executive Documents, 1st Session, 31st Congress, Vol. III, Pt. 2, Document No. 5, p. 985. The Indians desired whiskey at the councils. In order to prove that it was not refused because of stinginess, two barrels were opened at Prairie du Chien and the whiskey allowed to run on the ground. The old Indian Wakh-pa-koo-tay mourned the loss: “It was a great pity, there was enough wasted to have kept me drunk all the days of my life.”—Wisconsin Historical Collections, Vol. V, p. 124. 490
The Iowa Journal of History and Politics, Vol. IX, pp. 409, 410. 491
The Iowa Journal of History and Politics, Vol. IX, pp. 424–426. 492
The Iowa Journal of History and Politics, Vol. IX, pp. 416, 417. Taliaferro was violently opposed to granting any funds to the traders.—Auto-biography of Maj. Lawrence Taliaferro in the Minnesota Historical Collections, Vol. VI, pp. 215, 216. 493
The Iowa Journal of History and Politics, Vol. IX, pp. 431, 432. 494
The text of the treaty is to be found in Kappler’s Indian Affairs, Laws and Treaties, Vol. II, pp. 491–493. 495
Niles’ Register, Vol. LIII, pp. 81, 82; Kappler’s Indian Affairs, Laws and Treaties, Vol. II, pp. 493, 494. 496
See an account of the payment in 1849 at Fort Snelling in The Minnesota Pioneer, September 27, 1849. 497
Post Returns, November, 1852, October, 1853, October, 1854, in the archives of the War Department, Washington, D. C. 498