Indians of North America -- Iowa; Spirit Lake Massacre, Iowa, 1857
[13] Royce’s _Indian Land Cessions_, pp. 736, 737, 762, 763, 766-768,
778, 779; Kappler’s _Indian Affairs: Laws and Treaties_, Vol. II, pp.
349, 474-477, 495, 546-549.
[14] Royce’s _Indian Land Cessions_, pp. 768, 772; Kappler’s _Indian
Affairs: Laws and Treaties_, Vol. II, pp. 500, 518.
[15] Royce’s _Indian Land Cessions_, p. 778; Kappler’s _Indian
Affairs: Laws and Treaties_, Vol. II, pp. 557-560.
[16] In exchange for all lands claimed by the Sioux in northwestern
Iowa and southwestern Minnesota they were granted a reservation as
follows: “all that tract of country on either side of the Minnesota
River, from the western boundary of the lands herein ceded, east, to
the Tchay-tam-bay River on the north, and to Yellow Medicine River
on the south side, to extend, on each side, a distance of not
less than 10 miles from the general course of said river; the
boundaries of said tract to be marked out by as straight lines as
practicable”.--Kappler’s _Indian Affairs: Laws and Treaties_, Vol.
II, p. 590; Hughes’s _The Treaty of Traverse des Sioux in 1851_ in the
_Collections of the Minnesota Historical Society_, Vol. X, Pt. I, pp.
112, 113.
[17] Royce’s _Indian Land Cessions_, p. 784; Kappler’s _Indian
Affairs: Laws and Treaties_, Vol. II, pp. 591-593.
[18] “It was with great reluctance that the Sioux Indians consented to
surrender this favorite hunting and camping ground to the whites, as
they did by the treaty of 1851.”--Gue’s _History of Iowa_, Vol. I, p.
288.
CHAPTER II
[19] The Indian Chief Jagmani said of this treaty: “The Indians sold
their lands at Traverse des Sioux. I say what we were told. For fifty
years they were to be paid $50,000 per annum. We were also promised
$300,000 that we have not seen.”--Bryant and Murch’s _A History of the
Great Massacre by the Sioux Indians, in Minnesota_, pp. 34, 35. See
_House Executive Documents_, 1st Session, 35th Congress, Vol. II, Pt.
I, p. 401.
[20] _Senate Documents_, 1st Session, 32nd Congress, Vol. III, Doc.
No. 1, p. 414.
[21] Pond’s _The Dakotas or Sioux in Minnesota as They Were in 1834_
in the _Collections of the Minnesota Historical Society_, Vol. XII, p.
377.
[22] Pond’s _The Dakotas or Sioux in Minnesota as They Were in 1834_
in the _Collections of the Minnesota Historical Society_, Vol. XII, p.
376.
[23] “At Crow-wing [Minnesota] there are no less than five whiskey
shops, and [they] are only five miles from this agency. Five whiskey
shops and not half a dozen habitations beside!”--_Senate Documents_,
1st Session, 35th Congress, Vol. II, Pt. I, pp. 339, 340, 342. See the
_Letter of Governor Grimes to President Pierce_ in the _Roster and
Record of Iowa Soldiers_, Vol. VI, p. 890; _Annals of Iowa_ (Third
Series), Vol. III, p. 136.
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