CHAPTER XII. [474] _journals of Congress_, Vol. Iii, P. 589.

Journals of Congress, Vol. III, p. 589.

United States Statutes at Large, Vol. I, p. 138.

United States Statutes at Large, Vol. XVI, p. 566.

Report of the Commissioner of Indian Affairs, 1890, p. xxix.

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.

The text of the treaty is printed in Kappler's Indian Affairs, Laws and Treaties, Vol. II, pp. 250-255.

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.

Minnesota Historical Collections, Vol. II, p. 129.

Minnesota Historical Collections, Vol. II, p. 131; Vol. VI, p. 214.

For an account of the life of Flat Mouth see Coues's The Expeditions of Zebulon M. Pike, Vol. I, p. 169, note 10.

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.

Minnesota Historical Collections, Vol. V, p. 353.

The names of the witnesses of the treaty are given in Kappler's Indian Affairs, Laws and Treaties, Vol. II, p. 493.

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.

The Iowa Journal of History and Politics, Vol. IX, p. 420.

Dodge to Harris, July 30, 1837.--Indian Office Files, 1837, No. 226.

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.

The Iowa Journal of History and Politics, Vol. IX, pp. 409, 410.

The Iowa Journal of History and Politics, Vol. IX, pp. 424-426.

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.

The Iowa Journal of History and Politics, Vol. IX, pp. 431, 432.

The text of the treaty is to be found in Kappler's Indian Affairs, Laws and Treaties, Vol. II, pp. 491-493.

Niles' Register, Vol. LIII, pp. 81, 82; Kappler's Indian Affairs, Laws and Treaties, Vol. II, pp. 493, 494.

See an account of the payment in 1849 at Fort Snelling in The Minnesota Pioneer, September 27, 1849.

Post Returns, November, 1852, October, 1853, October, 1854, in the archives of the War Department, Washington, D. C.