[332] "Instead of lessening the disasters of Indian warfare, the building of Fort Snelling in the heart of the Indian country and upon the line dividing the ranges of the Dakotas and the Chippewas, had the direct effect of vastly increasing the horrors of that warfare. Depending upon the protection of the military, both tribes brought their women and children into the disputed territory, where before the coming of the soldiers they would never have dared to expose them, and it soon developed that the fort afforded no protection to the children of the forest against the savagery of their hereditary enemies, who made treaties of peace only to thereby gain better opportunity for butchery."--Robinson's _A History of the Dakota or Sioux Indians_, p. 154. This is Part II of the _South Dakota Historical Collections_, Vol. II. [333] At the forks of the Chippewa River in 1838, eleven Sioux were killed while asleep, by Chippewas whom they were entertaining. The mission at Lake Pokegama was attacked in 1840. In 1842, a battle was fought at Pine Coulie near the Indian village of Kaposia. In 1850, on Apple River in Wisconsin, fourteen Chippewas were scalped. See the article by Rev. S. W. Pond on _Indian Warfare in Minnesota_ in the _Minnesota Historical Collections_, Vol. III, pp. 129-138. As late as 1854, D. B. Herriman, the Chippewa agent, reported that during the preceding year nearly one hundred Chippewas had been killed and scalped by the Sioux. But none of these massacres took place at the fort.--_Executive Documents_, 2nd Session, 33rd Congress, Vol. I, Pt. 1, Document No. 1, p. 260. [334] _Executive Documents_, 1st Session, 31st Congress, Vol. VIII, Document No. 51, p. 31. [335] _Taliaferro's Diary_, January 23, 1831. [336] _Taliaferro's Diary_, June 4, 1831. For other occasions during the winter and spring of 1831 when the agent records the presence of both Sioux and Chippewas see the diary under date of January 31, March 5, May 2, June 15. [337] Taliaferro to Clark, July 6, 1831.--_William Clark Papers, Correspondence, 1830-1832_, p. 231. [338] Speech of Taliaferro to the Sioux.--_Taliaferro's Diary_, February 19, 1831. [339] Report of J. N. Nicollet in _Executive Documents_, 2nd Session, 28th Congress, Vol. II, Document No. 52, p. 66. [340] _Taliaferro's Diary_, January 10, 18, 26, 1831. [341] Taliaferro to Clark, February 8, 1831.--_William Clark Papers, Correspondence, 1830-1832_, p. 121. [342] The text of the treaty is printed in Kappler's _Indian Affairs, Laws and Treaties_, Vol. II, pp. 250-255. The treaty was signed on August 19, 1825. [343] _Missionary Herald_, Vol. XXX, p. 223, June, 1834. Reverend W. T. Boutwell accompanied Mr. Schoolcraft on this journey, and his account of it is published in the religious paper. [344] Schoolcraft's _Narrative of an Expedition through the Upper Mississippi to Itasca Lake_, p. 265. [345] _United States Statutes at Large_, Vol. IV, p. 684.