New-York daily tribune., 1851-08-01
INDIANS OF THE NORTH WEST.
The u. =. Treaty NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. OF the
Indian Tribes. their Customs and Pceui-
iarities-The Character Of the Country they
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Commissioners. scr; = form tcaly with the Indians
Of tie North Wet. has wrtten for that journal >sy-
eral very interesting .e'ie-s. from which We make
copous extracts.
1RAvER>E DEs S.orN. Monday Jaly IL. lsjl.
it Is row iouTtt n GAYS >luce Ne landed aere aAj
all he tine since. we nave been aHllrns he 'r.i-
val a tht Red Republicans. 70 treat although. IN
truth. ~ have Teen irtatne ever S.nce ~ came,
Tie >iCuN bands thar arr here. Ike Oh oAr room -
pers. have never talked frea; 10 Us once. They are
very tOcle. under the rev cIspenSaton. the YCiSn
OF Beef. They "a say : i meat fo- hem 10
! be here" Bur ior uS to remain here another week.
waiting for those distant bands. would Dc, oil
John. our French cook, would say. " meas not mu'
| and no bon but like a surgeon who has made up
hls nllnd on amprtaton, our COMMISSION sts pa
uelty down, tOufnlqu,t. klie and saw III hand pre-
pannE, when the patent comes, 10 do the teet. Il Y
were done. quickly We have read of the Devils
bobbng for a miser's som. with shilling on MS
hook for balt 50 Uncle sam bats for Sioux with
buLocks and the way they take the bait of Is ANA
Eng. OuT CommlsSaTy anu ordinary Is me od
: house occupied in The Doty treaty, and ordinary
enough IS, God knows, llt ne ever took any Inven-
tory OF IT. Several young men of our camp started
of an TIE morning. across the TlIer, 10 see Oe,id
axe a handsome sheet. IN the midst OF a dark for
est, distant, Il said, about FIVE or SIX or seven, or II
may be eight miles, or perhaps leagues. from me
Traverse Tney returned without selnC Cedar Lake,
not knowing where TO LOOK for IT, but thinking. new
ortheoSs, that they could come so near Il that the
artist IN their company. who draws everything. from
the cork Of porter bottle 10 queer conclusion,
IS. Ike a Nackmaw boat. he draws but very little
water, but when 1t comes To drawing raGonS, wet
or dry. cur painter is "ttdrr
Tow ard evening the InlianS from the PLAINS, who
are ercamped back ofthe Traverse fitted Themselves
up II ,hCIr cav airy suits, and with limbs of bushes
covered With rustng leaves, mounted heir horses,
and came rldng down among the lodges OF the other
bands sweeping along like whlrl~lnd, to represent
a oray OF Camanche Indians They were received
/ al each eIcampn.nt with volley of blank ear
l uldee>. wheeling swiftly rom one cncampment to
D fH.r md n "a N'.s
the Comm. sSlOncTs' marquee singing Wild war
song that hath N H." ds llenncpIn sand OF the falls
OF - Anthony, something terrible IA sort OF nun
nlIg r>quIslton on sc.IpS.
The Young men wko went in search Of Cedar
axe port that they found bodies of large, thrifty
black walnut-an article that Will hereafter oe much
wanted for manufacturing purposes at -. Paul
Tie Lac-qui Parlc Indians have brought down
with them young wolf. of that large kind known
as the white wolf. when full grown, which often at
tack and hill colts belonging to the Indians lie Is
savage tlc fellow, although young and II MI Bar
nun should signify wish to give him respectable
place in the menagerio he Is collecting, can be for
varded to him by express. If Gagged, he VIII do
nothing to corrupt " the morals OF the menageue"
nope the people down the river Will enteraln the
opinion that we are enjoying a life Of extreme lux
uTy for II would be truly annoying to combat
buffalo. gnas and mosquitoes here amongst the sava-
geS for month, sleeping out OF doors and feeding
upon tough beef and pilot bread, without even the
poor satisfaction OF beng enyled.
Judge Lockwood, of Prairie du Chen Is with as
who says he IS the first American who ever came up
the uyCr. He was here IN 1916. | VIII here give
list, a. nearly rs | can, of those who compose our
camp. Commissioners Lea and Ramsey, Secretary
Foster, Hugh Tyler, Col. Henderson A ; ii White,
Wallace B. White, Alexis b. Ballly, + Brown, L.
Chute and lady. MeSsrS. Lord. BouTy, Mayer, NJ
Mcleod, Riggs, Williamson, II. Jackson. artshorn,
J. r. Brown. H. l.. Dousman, h Mckenzie, II. IL.
Sbley j Lairambolse. w II Forbes, \. farnoaut.
my self and probably several others, whose names do
aot II this moment occur TO me. There probably
never before Indian treaty attended by so few
persons and with SO small expense
4 SisSeton has arrived, who says that five days
ago, party of SIX slsSeton Sioux, including TWO oi
his own children, attacked 40 miles above
Lac-qul- Parle, by band of 20 Cbppewas, lor pos
slby Wmnebagoes,) VINO Killed ana scaiped All oui
one Of their number, boy, who escaped by run
nIng. The boy ran 30 miles without stopping TWO
other Sioux returned with the boy to the place OF
slaughter, where they found the five mangled and
beheaded. They laid their remains III pile and
covered them with blanket. where they renamed
until the rest OF the Ssseton band came down. on
then way TO the treaty, who found and buried the
dead.
WEDSIs DAY, July l6.-As well for the information
Of most readers of the Pi0aST IN Minnesota as your
readers abroad, viii IN this letter give some par
uculars concerning these wldeextendcd people,
with whom treaty Is about to oe negotiated here,
which hope will prove interesting, II not a. com
pleto "a might be desired The SIOUX number more
than 25,0C0 souls and their territory extends from
the ced6d lands IN Iowa and Missouri, 10 the terri
tory belonging 10 the Asslnlboins and other tribes,
which divide, their northern boundary from British
the Mississippi across the Missouri, aS near TO the
Rocky Mountains as their rowing bands, known az
the Totons, can follow ,helr buffalo ranges The
Sioux of the plains, by far more populou bands than
those who live nearer the Mississippi, are rowing
bands. and sub>i>t by hunting the buffalo. As many
a. 900 lodges OF them were cncamped together on
the plains last summer These bands, although
they for The most pant classcd IN several dvls-
ions, arc really independent OF zach other There
l. really government, no delegated power or con-
stltutional trust among them. Ii they have any
GOV II m & called Democratic. \
except lar as he secures influence IN his tribe, by
personal qualities, independent of MS Office can do
nothing. As matter of form rather than OF fact the
bands constituting each division recognize The
chief of soe one OF the bands as their mead chei IN
council
With slight difference ofdialect the Sioux all speak
the same language Their habits customs, super
stltions are substantially the same. Some difference
the fashion OF combiug the har and IN the style OF
dress. Is observable IN different bands. Our norna-
ton OF the western bands, i comparatively little
none of the bands beyond the Missouri rlyer, being
represented IN this treaty. For convenience, | VIII
commence with notice OF the Sioux who Inhabit
the southeastern extremity OF their territory, and
follow with notice IN order. OF the bands that are
found IN our progress up the west bank OF the Nils
sissppl, the valley Of The Minnesota and thence
westward until reach the wild Tetons, whooc-
cupy the western annexation end extending mden-
nltClv topardth the Paclhc Ocean
Tie frst division Is that Of the Meiawtkanlavn
or Spirit Lake Sioux, IN the southeast ms divl-
sion comprises seven bands or villages, which contain
an aggregate Of aboni 22OO souls. These are the Oh
" Sioux who now receive annuities Iney so.e
their lands east of the Mississippi. 1887, by treaty
al Washington They receive SluooO annu illy' ana
$500 more he pad according 10 The direction oil tne
President OF the United States, who has never yet
Greeted Also, for period Of twenty years after
the date OF the treaty they receive szOOVJ anhudy
III goods and s., Geo more III provisions.
The bands constituting this division are
lst Wahashaw band. chief, WabashaW who n
also nomnally head chief Of the population
800.
% Red Wing band, chief neutrality-suspicious.
800
81 Kaposia Just below 81 Paul, chief HawS-thai-
hunts s-walkmg-populaton 400.
4th Black Dog, chief Gray lron-kopulatlon 2oc,
five miles up the Minnesota river.
5ih Lake Calhoun band, chief Cloud Man-popu-
atiOn 80.
9Th Good Roads band chief Good Road-popu
laton 300. ~ .o