[276] Morse's _A Report to the Secretary of War of the United States on
Indian Affairs_, pp. 78, 79.
[277] _Minnesota Historical Collections_, Vol. XII, pp. 321, 322.
[278] _Indian Office Files_, 1834, No. 203.
[279] Taliaferro to Clark, August 5, 1830.--_William Clark Papers,
Correspondence, 1830-1832_, p. 2.
[280] This description of Indian life is based on Pond's _The Dakotas or
Sioux in Minnesota as they were in 1834_ in the _Minnesota Historical
Collections_, Vol. XII, pp. 319-501.
[281] The quotations are taken from Beltrami's description of an Indian
council which he attended at Fort Snelling in 1823.--Beltrami's _A
Pilgrimage in Europe and America_, Vol. II, pp. 217-219.
[282] These are taken from a list which is typical of the character of
the presents, among the papers of Thomas Forsyth.--_Draper Manuscripts_,
2T2.
[283] _Annals of Congress_, 1st session, 17th Congress, Vol. I, pp. 319,
320.
[284] _Taliaferro's Diary_, February 19, 1831. The speech of the chief
closes thus: "We know you have nothing on hand for your children, but we
hope you will give us some Pork & Bread & a little Tobacco--as our pipes
are out & have been for some time our old men will be pleased." The
village of the Red Head was St. Louis, the Red Head being General
William Clark, the superintendent of Indian affairs.
[285] "The Crane and the Hole in the Day--and other Chippeways at the
Agency this day--Several Sissiton Sioux also at the Agency. Issued 24
Rats Bread 20 pounds of Pork--15 lbs. of tobacco."--_Taliaferro's
Diary_, January 23, 1831. See also the diary under the dates of December
24, 1830, January 13, 17, 1831.
[286] Cass to Taliaferro, July 28, 1825.--_Taliaferro Letters_, Vol. I,
No. 57.
[287] _Taliaferro's Diary_, July 19, 1834.
[288] _United States Statutes at Large_, Vol. IV, p. 738.
[289] _Taliaferro's Diary_, March 4, 1831.
[290] Taliaferro to Harris, February 21, 1838.--_Indian Office Files_,
1838, No. 631.
[291] For the suffering during the winter of 1842-1843 and the steps
taken to relieve it see the letter from Dr. Williamson in the
_Missionary Herald_, Vol. 39, p. 355, September, 1843; and Bruce to
Chambers, April 3, 1843, in _Indian Office Files_, 1843, No. 222.
[292] Taliaferro to Dodge, June 30, 1838.--_Indian Office Files_, 1838,
No. 690.
[293] Taliaferro to Clark, March 3, 1831.--_William Clark Papers,
Correspondence, 1830-1832_, p. 129.
[294] Taliaferro to Clark, September 14, 1834.--_Indian Office Files_,
1834, No. 206.
[295] _Taliaferro's Diary_, July 7, 1834.
[296] _Taliaferro's Diary_, December 25, 1830.
[297] _Taliaferro's Diary_, June 28, 30, 1834. On January 17, 1831, he
gave a blanket in which to bury a woman.
[298] _Indian Office Files_, 1832, Nos. 287, 294, 295, 296.
[299] _Auto-biography of Maj. Lawrence Taliaferro_ in the _Minnesota
Historical Collections_, Vol. VI, p. 236.
[300] Snelling to Taliaferro, November 13, 1820.--_Taliaferro Letters_,
Vol. I, No. 21.
[301] Found among the _Sibley Papers, 1830-1840_.
[302] Taliaferro to Cass, March 3, 1832.--_Indian Office Files_, 1832,
No. 289.
[303] Taliaferro to Clark, July 15, 1831.--_William Clark Papers,
Correspondence, 1830-1832_, p. 235.
[304] _Post Returns_, April, May, 1834, July, 1835, in the archives of
the War Department, Washington, D. C.
[305] "These warriors of Mr. Rainville's were constantly with me, for
they knew that I was an English warrior, as they called me, and they are
very partial to the English."--Marryat's _A Diary in America_, Vol. II,
p. 91. Captain Marryat, the English novelist, visited the upper
Mississippi region in 1837.
"Many and strong are the recollections of the Sioux and other tribes, of
their alliance with the British in the last and revolutionary wars, of
which I have met many curious instances".--Catlin's _Letters and Notes
on the Manners, Customs, and Condition of the North American Indians_,
Vol. II, p. 657, footnote.
[306] _Niles' Register_, Vol. XXVI, p. 363, July 31, 1824; Vol. LIII, p.
33, September 16, 1837.
[307] Marryat'a _A Diary in America_, Vol. III, pp. 221, 222.
[308] _Minnesota Historical Collections_, Vol. XII, p. 320.
[309] _Niles' Register_, Vol. LIII, p. 82, October 7, 1837.
[310] Snelling to Taliaferro, October 19, 1824.--_Taliaferro Letters_,
Vol. I, No. 50.
[311] _Taliaferro's Diary_, March 18, 1831.
[312] _Taliaferro's Diary_, March 11, 1831.
[313] Taliaferro to Clark, April 3, 1831.--_William Clark Papers,
Correspondence_, 1830-1832, p. 161.
[314] Renville to Sibley, August 21, 1840.--_Sibley Papers, 1830-1840_.
[315] Quoted in Neill's _The History of Minnesota_, pp. 338, 339. The
two men murdered on the Missouri River in 1820 were Isadore Poupon, a
French half-breed, and Joseph F. Andrews, a Canadian.
[316] Quaife's _Chicago and the Old Northwest, 1673-1835_, p. 283.
[317] Snelling to Taliaferro, March 19, 1822.--_Taliaferro Letters_,
Vol. I, No. 32. The quotation is taken from this letter. See also
Calhoun to Snelling, September 18, 1822.--_Taliaferro Letters_, Vol. I,
No. 40.
[318] Letter of George Johnson, November 2, 1825.--_Indian Office
Files_, 1825-1826, No. 4.
[319] Taliaferro to Harris, September 10, 1838.--_Indian Office Files_,
1838, No. 663.