Indian Creek Massacre and Captivity of Hall Girls: Complete history of the massacre of sixteen whites on Indian creek, near Ottawa, Ill., and Sylvia Hall and Rachel Hall as captives in Illinois and Wisconsin during the Black Hawk war, 1832 — John Shaqi
Indian Creek Massacre and Captivity of Hall Girls: Complete history of the massacre of sixteen whites on Indian creek, near Ottawa, Ill., and Sylvia Hall and Rachel Hall as captives in Illinois and Wisconsin during the Black Hawk war, 1832Scanlan, Charles Martin
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Indian Creek Massacre and Captivity of Hall Girls: Complete history of the massacre of sixteen whites on Indian creek, near Ottawa, Ill., and Sylvia Hall and Rachel Hall as captives in Illinois and Wisconsin during the Black Hawk war, 1832
Scanlan, Charles Martin
Black Hawk War, 1832; Horn, Sylvia Hall, 1813-1899; Indian captivities -- Middle West; Munson, Rachel Hall, -1870
“Article 3. In consideration of the cession and relinquishment of
land made in the preceding article, the United States will deliver to
the said tribes, at the town of St. Louis, or some other convenient
place on the Mississippi, yearly and every year, goods suited to the
circumstances of the Indians of the value of one thousand dollars (six
hundred of which are intended for the Sacs and four hundred for the
Foxes), reckoning that value at the first cost of the goods in the
City or place in the United States, where they shall be procured. And
if the said tribes shall hereafter at an annual delivery of the goods
aforesaid, desire that a part of their annuity should be furnished
in domestic animals, implements of husbandry, and other utensils,
convenient for them, or in compensation to useful artificers, who may
reside with or near them, and be employed for their benefit, the same
shall, at the subsequent annual delivery, be furnished accordingly.
“Article 4. The United States will never interrupt the said tribes in
the possession of the lands, which they rightfully claim, but will,
on the contrary, protect them in the quiet enjoyment of the same
against their own citizens and against all other white persons, who may
intrude upon them. And the said tribes do hereby engage that they will
never sell their lands, or any part thereof, to any sovereign power
but the United States, nor to the citizens or subjects of any other
sovereign power, nor to the citizens of the United States.
* * * * *
“Article 7. As long as the lands which are now ceded to the United
States remain their [U. S.] property, the Indians belonging to the said
tribes shall enjoy the privileges of living and hunting upon them.”[3]
[3] “Indian Affairs, Laws and Treaties”, 174.
The Chippewas, the Winnebagos, and the Pottawatamies, made claim to
the same territory. Even the Foxes and Sacs claimed that the young
chiefs who signed the treaty, were made drunk, and while in that
condition agreed to the treaty.[4] Also, the Indians maintained that
the United States would not allow them to hunt upon the “wild” lands,
notwithstanding Art. 7 of the treaty and that the title thereto was
still in the government. Therefore, the Indians refused to ratify the
treaty, and the idea that they were grievously wronged became a fixed
notion in the minds of the old chiefs, which led to the Red Bird War
of 1827, and the still greater Black Hawk War in 1832.[5]
[4] Black Hawk’s Autobiography, Le Claire, Ch. 3. 12 “The Republic”,
Irelan, 68.
[5] 3 Smith’s “History of Wisconsin” (1854), 115 et seq.; “Waubun,”
Kinzie, 381.
[Illustration: BLACK HAWK AS A WARRIOR.]
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