Iowa news. [volume] (Dubuque, Upper Mississippi Lead Mines, Wisconsin Territory) 1837-1841, 1837-08-12
WECNMNTE
From Sandy --Ka-nan-dwa-winza or

From Snake River.---Naudin, or the Wind, t
Sha-go-bai, or the Six Pay-a-jig, and Ma a
qua-na-bic, or the Father.
From Fond du Lac.---M ongo-sit, or Looms i
Foot, and Shin-go-be or the Spruce, y
st. Croix River---Pe-she-ke, or the Buffalo. b
Yer Planck Van Antwerp, ofIndia, ap point c
ed by the President Secretary to the Commits $
sioners. was also present at the meeting ci the
Council. d
The council pipe having been first smoked 6
by Gov. Dodge, with the Chiefs, the Govern
or addressed them as folows---
Chiefs, Head men, and Wiawiors OF the Chip.i |,
pe,UG Nation:
seYou Great Father, the President Of the i
United States, has sent me to see YOU ia-coln-
/ Gil to propose to you the purchase Of snail
part Of your country, east of the MISSISSIPPI
River.
/ This country, as am informed, is not valu-
able to you for its game and not shifted TO the
culture of corn. land otheragricultural purposes.
Ytur Great Father wishes to purchase I
your cpuntry on the Chippewa and St. Croix
rivers for the advantage Gifts pine timber, with
which it is said to abound.
a map Of the country which your Great
Fathfr wishes to buy from you will be shewn /
to yj,, in which the rivers and water courses
are Hid down; and such explanations gwen
through your Interpreter, as will fully explain
to yfl the particular part of your country east
of tie Mississippi River, which your Great
Fatler proposes to purchase for the use OF his
whidh children.
Your Great Father knows you are poor,
and this pine region is not valuable to you tor
, huntngpurposes; his wish IS to make you
f full compensation for the country ny glvlag
, you its full value, payable in such manner as
will be most serviceable to your people.
An estimate will be made of the probable,
value Of your country, which 1t is proposed
TO purchase, of which you will be informed.
viii request you, after fully delberatIng upon
the subject, to tell me your price for the couh-
J trywi, as little delay as possible.
: Your Great Father, the President, was de-
l sitous that the Chippewas should be fully re-
nrpsented in this council, that all might know
: what had been done, and that equal justice
5 should be done to all ! wish you to be pre-
G pared with your answerto the proposition made
n YOU, at our meeting in council tomorrow.
Gov. Dodge having concluded his remarks
and minated his readiness to hear anything
which the Chiefs or principal men might nave
d to saw to him. Aisli-kc-boge- fla'
y Mouth) advanced and spoke as follows; MY
Il father. have but little TO say to you now. hi'.
|ino in a different part Of the country Rom mat
i which YOU propose to buy from US, VIII Do d.
Ernonu the last of thos, who will speak TO you
h nnon that subject After those shall have sPo-
J ken who live in g. nearer to that country, VIII
-[talI, more to YOU. My father, my people nave
\ all the same opinion with me, and VIII aoiae
d lby what shall say to you; have come 70 uI -,
/ ten first, to all you have to say to us, and VII
o afterwards speak to YOU My heart IS WIN
% YOU. have nothing more TO say now
m A. tka,,C anna
1t said. ..My father, once shook hands win
i, our treat Father beyond the mountains,
as | do with you now. ! nave 'o'
ID much to saw at present, and my brother VINO
10 stands near me wishes to speak with you. 10,
er morrow. I expect that some more people WIZ
III liz bore from the country you wish to buy IRON
?. ms. I was present when they began to run Inc
I'd boundary line between our country and that O
If he sioux at the Red Deer's Rump. Wher
Won are ready to examine that line will say
he 'J pe.she-ke nhe Buffalo) "My Father, | an
10 t,ken Inv surprise by what you have SAID u
s. ms. and will speak but few words to you now
to We are waiting for more OF our people Wh ,
to ara coming from the country which You WIS.,
ed tn buy from us. We will think OF VIVA, yo'
list have Said to us, and when they come VIII ,e'
sc yon orr minds aboutit. Men Will then pc emo
an SEN by us to speak with you. have nolhih;
ey more to say now. a, f,ro
h astl Nv father, the people will come fror
Is, IT, country where my fathers have lived befor
TO- ,no When they arrive here, they will spea
mo- 49,, IJntl then have nothing more !
.. say. .o,,u ;,o,rossino m
nd 10 cbinnewas, the necessity Of rcmainin
~ or;at and at peace with the Sioux, during tn
is Hdon,nuance of the council, adjourned TO me'
en- again tomorrow.
FRIDAY, July 2lst.
The Governor was advised this morning
cfs Mr.. Vineyard, their agent, that the Ch'ppe",
did not wish TO meet in council today as y
( people whom they expected had not yet ar
NOR We'd. and they wanted more time to talk WI
len one another. 49,. 90
ear oAioHD
st. The morning being cloudy, with an appe,as
ing ance Of rain. the council did not meet until
o'clock. p. NJ, when Gov. Dodge direct
d the Interpreter to say tothe Indians lha' !" .
HE he had parted with them two days ago, tn
ont had told him that they expected 70 meet me a.
NJ Of their friends here, and were deslrous beio
her taking any further steps about what ne had So
on. ken to them, of talking to one another --that
nv. had now met them to hear what they mig
have to say about their absent inenos' ana
an. listen to any communications which they mig
te s wish to make to him in regard TO the counc
,,s. which they had held, and the conclusion
Gil. which they had arrived. ).
emit, Alter an in'eisai " - T., J;rec,i
ing which time the Interpreter by dlrec ~
or of the Governor, repeated the expression o. !
low readiness 70 near any Ien'aisa A;sh. hoo
erc- ans mighE WISH 70 n,ahe - III, ..Mv Fat
ma er, shall say Das H.tie " 80 nh;ef of Il
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