The Minnesota pioneer. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn. Territory) 1849-1855, 1850-10-24


many times assured him were many kinds
of beasts for the skins Of which he would
give them ali things necessary: that they
ought to reflect that they could not do
without French goods, and that the only
way not to want them was, not to go TO
war with on, allied nations.
AS it is customary with the Indians to ac-
company their word with present proper
toned to the affair treated of, he gave them
| so lbs of powder, as many balls, six guns,
ten axes, twelve arms-full of tobacco and q
Ratchet pipe.
| On the LIST of December the Mantantons
invited LIE Sueur TO great feast Of four
of their lodges they had made one, in which
was one hundred men seated around, and
every one his dish before him. After the
meal, Wahkantape the chief, made them
all smoke one after another in the Ratchet
pipe which had been g iven them. He then
made present to lie Sueur of a slaveland
sack OF wild rice, and said to hun, show
ing him his men:
"Bchold the remains of this great village
which thou hast aforetimes seen so numer-
Gus all the others have been killed in war,
aud the few men which thou seest in this
lodge, accept the present thou hast made
them, and are resolved to obey the great
chief of all nations, of whom thou hast spo-
ken to US. Thou oughest not to regard us
Scioux hut as French, and instead of say
ing the Scioux are miserable, and have no
mind, and are fit for nothing but to rob and
steal from the French, thou shalt say my
brethren, are miserable and have 10 mind
and we must try to procure some for them.
| They rob US but will take care that they
do not lack iron, that is to say all kinds of
goods If thou dost this, assure thee that
in little time, the Mantantons willbecome
I Frencbmen, and they will have none of
those voices, with W hich thou reproacbest
us"
| Having finished this speech, he covered
his face with his garment, and the others
! initiated him. i hey wept over their COM
panions who had died in war, and chanted
! an adleu TO their country in a tone so gloomy
that one could not keep from partaking Of
their sorrow.
Wahkantape then made them smoke a.
gain, aud distributed the presents and safd
that he was going to the Neutrality-suspicious.
to inform them of the resolution and invite
them to do The same.
! On the 18th, three Mendeoucanton chiefs
and a large number of Indians of the same
village arrived at the fort, and the next day
gave satisfaction for robbng the French
man. They brought 400 lbs of beaver skins
and promised that the summer following,
after their canoes were built and they had
gathered their wild rice, that they would
come and establish themselves, near the
French. The same day they returned to
their village east of the Mississippi.
Names of the bands of Scoux of the
East, with their Specification:
/ MANTANroNs-Tha is to say village of
the Great Lake which empties into small
one.
MENDEoUCANToNs - Village Of Spirit
Lake.
QuIoPEToNs-Village OF the lake with
one river.
PsroUhANIroNs - Village Of wild-rice
gntherers.
OuADEBAroNs-The river village
OUATEMANEroNs-Nil lagc of the tribe
who dwell on point of the lake.
SoNGAsQUIToNs-The brave village.
THE sCIoUX OF THE WEST.
| ToUCHoUAsINroNs-T village of the
pole.
PsINcHAToNs-Viiiage of the red Wild
rice.
| OUJALEspoITONs--NiI divided into
many small bands.
Observation-Disclosures great wild
rice village.
TINTANGAoUGHIAToNs- grand lodge
village.
| OUAPEroNs-Village, of the leaf
OUGHETGEoDAToNs-- Village.
! OUAPEToNTEroNs-Nii of those who
shoot in the large pine.
HlNHANEroNs-Village Of the red stone
quarry.
The above catalogue of villages concludes
I N, fhot / H., 4,
lie Sueur's journal.
In the narrative of Major Longs second
expedition there are just the same number
of villages ofthe Gems du Lac or M'de-wa-
kant wan SciouX, mentioned though the
names are different. After leaving the
Mile Lac region the divisions evidently
were different and the villages known by
new names.
CharIevOix in his large and valuable
work prepared 10y order of The French Gov
eminent; speaking of the Scioux remarks,
sour Biographies divide that nation into
the Wandering SciOux and Scioux of the
| Pralres, into SciOux of the East and Srioux
OF the West. Such division to me seems
not to be well founded. All the Scioux live
~ the same manner, and it happens that
such camp which was last year on the East
bank of the Mississippi will he next year on
the West, and those that we have for a
time seen on the river Saint Pierre are per-
haps now great way off on prairie.
The name of Scioux that we give to those
Indians is entirely of our making, or rather
it is but the last two sylables of the name Of
Nadouessoux, as many nations call them.
1t is the most numerous nation as yet known
in Cauada. They were peaceable and not
disposed to war, until the Hurons and lro-
quois came to their country.
They tried to laugh at their simplicity
and trained them up to war, at their ex
pense.
The Scioux have many women, and they
punish conjugai infideIlty with severity
They cut off the tip Of their noses and a
piece Of the skin of the head and draw it
over.
have seen some who thought that those
Indians had Chinese accent. 1t would be
very easy to discover if their language had
any affinity with that of the people of Chi
na."
In LIE Sueur's enumeration Of the Scioux
ba