[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.