[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. CHAPTER VIII [320] Morse's _A Report to the Secretary of War of the United States on Indian Affairs_, p. 28. [321] Kellogg's _Early Narratives of the Northwest, 1634-1699_, p. 50. [322] _Minnesota Historical Collections_, Vol. VI, p. 209. [323] Baker to Taliaferro, May 19, 1829.--_Indian Office Files_, 1829, No. 64. [324] Speech of Flat Mouth, May 27, 1827.--_Indian Office Files_, 1827, No. 14. [325] _Indian Office Files_, 1827, No. 9. [326] From Mrs. Van Cleve's reminiscences in the _Minnesota Historical Collections_, Vol. III, p. 80.