[321] Flandrau’s _The Ink-pa-du-ta Massacre of 1857_ in the
_Collections of the Minnesota Historical Society_, Vol. III, p. 400.
[322] Flandrau’s The _Ink-pa-du-ta Massacre of 1857_ in the
_Collections of the Minnesota Historical Society_, Vol. III, p. 397.
[323] Lee’s _History of the Spirit Lake Massacre_, p. 42.
[324] Flandrau’s _The Ink-pa-du-ta Massacre of 1857_ in the
_Collections of the Minnesota Historical Society_, Vol. III, p. 401.
[325] Flandrau’s _The Ink-pa-du-ta Massacre of 1857_ in the
_Collections of the Minnesota Historical Society_, Vol. III, p. 401.
[326] Flandrau’s _The Ink-pa-du-ta Massacre of 1857_ in the
_Collections of the Minnesota Historical Society_, Vol. III, pp. 401,
402.
[327] _House Executive Documents_, 1st Session, 35th Congress, Vol.
II, Pt. I, p. 367.
[328] _House Executive Documents_, 1st Session, 35th Congress, Vol.
II, Pt. I, pp. 362, 363.
[329] _House Executive Documents_, 1st Session, 35th Congress, Vol.
II, Pt. I, p. 368.
[330] _House Executive Documents_, 1st Session, 35th Congress, Vol.
II, Pt. I, p. 368.
[331] Hubbard and Holcombe’s _Minnesota in Three Centuries_, Vol. III,
p. 254.
[332] _House Executive Documents_, 1st Session, 35th Congress, Vol.
II, Pt. I, pp. 369, 370, 375.
[333] _House Executive Documents_, 1st Session, 35th Congress, Vol.
II, Pt. I, pp. 373, 374, 375-379.
[334] _House Executive Documents_, 1st Session, 35th Congress, Vol.
II, Pt. I, p. 398.
[335] This speech is one of the very few well-known oratorical efforts
of a Siouan leader and as such it is here appended: “The soldiers have
appointed me to speak for them. The man who killed white people did
not belong to us, and we did not expect to be called to account for
the people of another band. We have always tried to do as our Great
Father tells us. One of our young men brought in a captive woman. I
went out and brought the other. The soldiers came up here, and our
young men assisted to kill one of Ink-pa-du-tah’s sons at this place.
Then you (Superintendent Cullen) spoke about our soldiers going after
the rest. Wakea Ska (White Lodge) said he would go, and the rest of us
followed. The lower Indians did not get up the war party for you; it
was our Indians, the Wahpeton and Sisiton. The soldiers here say that
they were told by you that a thousand dollars would be paid for
killing each of the murderers. Their Great Father does not expect to
do these things without money, and I suppose that it is for that that
the special agent is come up. We wish the men who went out paid for
what they have done. Three men are killed as we know. I am not a chief
among the Indians. The white people have declared me a chief, and I
suppose I am able to do something. We have nothing to eat, and our
families are hungry. If we go out again we must have some money before
we go. This is what the soldiers have wished me to say.... All of us
want our money now very much. We have never seen our Great Father, but
have heard a great deal from him, and have always tried to do as he
has told us. A man of another band has done wrong, and we are to
suffer for it. Our old women and children are hungry for this. I have
seen ten thousand dollars sent to pay for our going out. I wish the
soldiers were paid for it. I suppose our Great Father has more money
than this.”--_House Executive Documents_, 1st Session, 35th Congress,
Vol. II, Pt. I, p. 399.
[336] Hubbard and Holcombe’s _Minnesota in Three Centuries_, Vol. III,
pp. 267, 268; _South Dakota Historical Collections_, Vol. II, pp. 344,
345, Vol. VI, p. 226.
[337] Flandrau’s The _Ink-pa-du-ta Massacre of 1857_ in the
_Collections of the Minnesota Historical Society_, Vol. III, pp.
402-404.
[338] Flandrau’s _The Ink-pa-du-ta Massacre of 1857_ in the
_Collections of the Minnesota Historical Society_, Vol. III, pp.
404-406.