Iowa news. [volume] (Dubuque, Upper Mississippi Lead Mines, Wisconsin Territory) 1837-1841, 1837-09-02

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Nv father, tile Great Spirit has given us a
,iear sky to talk together to-day. We must
low rest, and when we meet again We Will
speak further.
Gov. Dodge. DO you wish me ~ give you
ny answer this evening, Or wait until to-mor-
row morning! Answer---To-moErOw morning.
Gov. Dodge. 1t is proper for me to explain
10 YOU, that your great father never buys land
for term of years. will agree that you shall
have the free use ofthe rivers and the privilege
Of hunting on the lands you are to sell, during
the pleasure of your great father. II you sell
these lands. you must sell them as all the 9th
er Indian nations have done, and tell you
this now that you may not hereafter say have
deceived you. Your great father has sent me
here to treat you as his children -t0APay you
the whole value of your lands, aud MOTTO deceive
you in any thing may do or say. If you con-
suit with your two fathers, (the sub-agentsll
it is my wish that they may do YOU justice.
You have spoken frequently of your half
breeds. 1t is good principle in you to wish
to provide for them, but you must do so In mo-
ney, and cannot give them land. You'll have
mentioned that you wish to receive one half l
may agree to give you in money, and the other
haltin goods. | do not object to this, but have
proposition to make to you now, which l
wish you 10 consider. Your great father re-
commends that you should take from year to
year in part payment for your lands, certain
sums of money to provide teachers to educate
your children and make them wise like white
people. Farmers to teach you to cultivate the
ground, for agricultural implements, and seeds
to plant in the earth, for provisions and salt,
for tobacco, for blacksmiths, iron, &c., and
for mills and millers to grind the corn you may
raise. If you consent to this, let me know ear
ly tomorrow morning.
FRIDAY, July oath, 1887.
The Council metz at IL o'clock. After smo-
king and shaking hands,
Neutrality-suspicious., (Flat MOUTH said---
My father, you children are willing to Lefty
have their lands, but wish to reserve the pri-
vilege of making sugar from the trees, and
getting their living from the lakes and rivers
as they have heretofore done, and Of remain-
ing in the country. 1t is hard to give up the
land. 1t will remain and cannot be destroyed,
but you may cut down the trees, and others
will grow up. You know we cannot live de-
prived of lakes and rivers. There is some
game on the land yet, and for that we wish to
remain upon it. Sometimes we scraPe the
trees and eat the bark. The Great Spirit a
Dove maze lUc edTlI, anu CduoSS ~ W pIOuuSO
that which enables us to live.
NV father, we would long ago have agreed
to let YOU have the lands, but when we agreed
upon any point, there havebe enpeople TO whis-
per in our ears---to trouble and distract us.
What the chiefs said yesterday they abide by.
They cannot look back and change.
My father, the Great Spirit above placed
us on this land; and we want some benefit from
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would not sell it, and we want that benefit
ourselves. did not intend TO speak; what
say is the language of the chiefs. l was not
in council yesterday, because was not we'll
have heard many things said---that we were
going to put out the fires Of the white people
our country---ttat we were going to send the
pout Of it; but know nothing about it.
hspeak, it is not with sugar in my
M bur children are rejoiced TO see
the agents here to-day, one Of whom is to live
on Lake Superior, and the other on the Mis-
sisslppi, to keep peace in the country. W.
are pleased that our agents may estimate thu
value of our lands, that our young men, women
and children may go home with their hearts
at ease. We will wait to hear wi,at you offe
for the lands, and will then make you our an
swer. We will depend upon our two fathers
(apents) to interest themselves for us; ant
viii submit i, to them whether wkat you offe
us is enough.
NV father, there are many Of your children
here from a distance, and among them arr
three chiefs from the Chippewa river, ane
what they say is the opinion and wish of thu
people living there. They tell me to say t.
YOU that they have granted a privilege to some
x.c t:,u fnoSp lands far UhIcF
they are paid in tobacco and ammunition fol-
hunting. They wish, you not to break thel'
word with these people, but to allow them to
asked of them, and they wish you now to grant
their request.
Gov. Dodge. My friends, have listened
with great attention TO your chiefs from Leecii
Lake. will make known to your great tain
er your request to be permitted to make sugar
on the lands, and you will be allowed during
| his pleasure TO hunt and fish on them. u wiil
probably be many years before your great ialn-
er will want all these lands for the use OF his
white children. As you have asked me what
will give for the country, will now tell you,
and viii recommend the manner in which u
ought to be maid to YOU. For that part ofyour
country which wish to buy, | offer you the
sum Of $500. 200. propose to give you an
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and money, one half in each, Or an ~ gcoos y
you choose to provide yseI oi ,ns
same time, to provide you win oiacAsln''''s'
&C., &C., Gas 10 the treaty..
1 After the Governor mad nnlsneo speaking,
The council was adjourned.
SATURDAY, July Doth, 1887.
There were present about twenty chiefs at
the opening Of the council this morning. Az
ter the pipe was passed among them, Gov.
Dodge said, he was now ready TO proceed
with the business before them, and wished to
know, whether they had agreed 70 accept the
price he had offered them for the land they had
sold to their great father, and whether they
would accent the payment in the mannershes