[332] _House Executive Documents_, 1st Session, 35th Congress, Vol. II, Pt. I, pp. 369, 370, 375. [333] _House Executive Documents_, 1st Session, 35th Congress, Vol. II, Pt. I, pp. 373, 374, 375-379. [334] _House Executive Documents_, 1st Session, 35th Congress, Vol. II, Pt. I, p. 398. [335] This speech is one of the very few well-known oratorical efforts of a Siouan leader and as such it is here appended: “The soldiers have appointed me to speak for them. The man who killed white people did not belong to us, and we did not expect to be called to account for the people of another band. We have always tried to do as our Great Father tells us. One of our young men brought in a captive woman. I went out and brought the other. The soldiers came up here, and our young men assisted to kill one of Ink-pa-du-tah’s sons at this place. Then you (Superintendent Cullen) spoke about our soldiers going after the rest. Wakea Ska (White Lodge) said he would go, and the rest of us followed. The lower Indians did not get up the war party for you; it was our Indians, the Wahpeton and Sisiton. The soldiers here say that they were told by you that a thousand dollars would be paid for killing each of the murderers. Their Great Father does not expect to do these things without money, and I suppose that it is for that that the special agent is come up. We wish the men who went out paid for what they have done. Three men are killed as we know. I am not a chief among the Indians. The white people have declared me a chief, and I suppose I am able to do something. We have nothing to eat, and our families are hungry. If we go out again we must have some money before we go. This is what the soldiers have wished me to say.... All of us want our money now very much. We have never seen our Great Father, but have heard a great deal from him, and have always tried to do as he has told us. A man of another band has done wrong, and we are to suffer for it. Our old women and children are hungry for this. I have seen ten thousand dollars sent to pay for our going out. I wish the soldiers were paid for it. I suppose our Great Father has more money than this.”--_House Executive Documents_, 1st Session, 35th Congress, Vol. II, Pt. I, p. 399. [336] Hubbard and Holcombe’s _Minnesota in Three Centuries_, Vol. III, pp. 267, 268; _South Dakota Historical Collections_, Vol. II, pp. 344, 345, Vol. VI, p. 226. [337] Flandrau’s The _Ink-pa-du-ta Massacre of 1857_ in the _Collections of the Minnesota Historical Society_, Vol. III, pp. 402-404. [338] Flandrau’s _The Ink-pa-du-ta Massacre of 1857_ in the _Collections of the Minnesota Historical Society_, Vol. III, pp. 404-406. CHAPTER XXX [339] Letter of Governor James W. Grimes to the Iowa Delegation in Congress, January 3, 1855, in the _Annals of Iowa_ (Third Series), Vol. II, pp. 627-630; Letter of Governor James W. Grimes to President Franklin Pierce in the _Annals of Iowa_ (Third Series), Vol. III, pp. 135-137.