The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1855-12-20

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THURSDAY. sECEmnEx 20. 1885,.
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..,....Tha. first Of n series Of I.ectsres 70 10
...edslIytted ddriDg The preseat winter before
: utsy. dflzsns, was read last evening to n
....s.lrga AndiSnce Of ladies and gentlemen. as
,s-seynbDed in the man hsil II the Baldwin
s..school edincc, If'.thc audience d. last
i..cpsnisg ran be taken N IA. Indication Of
THE feelings 81 our citizras the ~cccs d
....aLsssries ofIntsse. Is placed leyoad doubt
...,s Gov. RAuxy, tho President Of the His
i.-tgtcal Society, presided. lie stated to tho
.assuaisscs thst " had boen intended Ivy the
t.ISGturs .Conmittse, To caae a paper pre-
-. paistsd by Raw. Dir. WILLIAMSON 10 be read,
-. 49, Ibta h WAS decided. owing u tho pec'lar
q. :. .ckAtaetsrof Tie production. that Il should
fifst 10 gwen 10 the public ~ the annals Of
....,,'tbn Society. Ia place Of IN. wn4IAxsosS
:. paper. ibe. Secretary would read q very In
teresiing article, prepared by Rev. X
RIoospof the InequiIarle Mission, on the
.s'-pskcta and Ojibwa Fe,sl t.aes
Rev Mr.. NuiJ. the Secretary Of The
Society. rssd Tie following :" isemlpiscen-
ces." which We pubHsh ~ full, irspeakins
fsr them y careful lerssal BY our readers
.issso,.sis a. Z a---~tt.e.t ssI.
nEMsssrgycss ~ THE sssun nsrw.EN tiis
DAkOTAs AND 1JinwAs. Ffb,M fsss TO isss
Wheil, anil Tor What can.e Ne Dakotas and
Ojibwarbecpm enemies, are questions which.
at this dsy. cannot probably, ss satisfactorily
answered. Tbs Dakotas. living at present,
generally regard ibis chmits "a having boon
Fhsndef down from generations long gone ny -
v lsas bseeme s'ths inheritance of fathers -
Nov tn charge 81 having been tho first TO
coInnpsics bostilliIcs, which have ~ long con
tIuped, can bcmadc by each party against the
osssv, and with about ths same probability oI
~Tlrsc wars have evidently tended TO drive
tbetDakvtss smtiwurd aud westward AMI Tho
buffalo chase has drawn them la ihe sa,p d.
rcction lid and driven. by these two fosos
II isYfos sifangc that places are found nov hr
upintlr 0jiswa country, which were cnce oc'
eupi,I by ths 9 allied nation" Without lis.
'taa.ing The a,sston which v thu Drawer
people q ,rsstim by the why. which zach
party ~t,ies In their own favor -, viii READILY
be Admitted that. for generations past, the nat
.arp adyantaars for successfully carrying ou The
" contest have been On the vide II the " totem
tribe" Thesrs isa country Of lakes and swnn'p-
and ipiauls and forests, and their light canoes
-. sauy theme are carried by them just Ms ne
ccssiiy requires, with thea too during thu
sswhslespsng and summer, they can float down
q. .iheareams which make up thc" father DIVA
tsr, and scerctiug themselves at some crossing
. place NJ near sotm village on the Mississippi or
Minnesota, with favorable opperton,ty ,okill
-. Aplsealp their eleInissi which having done,
thoy make good their rrtrrat home by land 30
,phey csa then place their families a,ry tl,cu,,
..selvv away IN .the middle u some lake ola
So stha,sa,d ~l,s,9 and They are SAFE nom ,he at
4. tnsksoi t1 war l@rtA~ VINO nave gone on 'oo'
'@ 10 ack Eur yengcance A general thing, u Is
.s o,,,, IN che winter TINT the pakotna hive .
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g"M opp"f'""'y " s'""s '"' '9'""" W WV"
own aountry.
Thn Dakotas say the Olihwas arr eowar,iA
NJ, and the, ,hnselua nrc hra,s--ethai their GU
etpies are tr,acherous while they themselves arr
~tr,e. The fallowipv facts, however, viii show
thai the sosar,licc 4 no, all ou ou s,e. AMI that
trtschory he- been rssortr,l to by one as wrll
y 4. ths other. Our Indians cMihhwtly assert
that the rs,soa why their northern and eastern
cnrniy haa. within twenty years mast, hunted
upon their land, and AT last. sold y portion Of il
"a ths United states povrruna,.t, Is not because
,hcy ara afraid Of the ollbwas. but becaua.
they have llatrnFa 10 the counals Of the Indian
Agents. traders aud missionaries have oitrn
made peace with their cnt,ni,s. which they have
taken a,,yau,ap, al only TO make further aasrs.
sjo,,S. In This there may hc some truth