Little Falls transcript. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1876-1894, 1880-02-20
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WRITTEN n 1915 By ORDER . OF : THE
= BOARD OF COUNTY coainIss s1oNERs 81 AN AM, ,
PUBLISHED IN THE TRANscR cR1PT m THE
- :. SAME. YEAR. REVISED AND BROUGHT
u: DowN5re THE PRESENT T1ME:aaai dor
., By NATHAN RICHARDSON, .-.p J. :,
i i[Continued from last weeks Transcript
An Indian chief by the name Of Wa
dena says that he. was born at Gull Lake,
and is about seventy years .ofage, and was
about ten years of age when the great
treaty was made at Prairie du CHEN in
about 1922. He is a cousin and a broth
er-in-law of Bad Boy, and a cousin of
old Mrs. Sloan and Eliza Wistash, two
we'll known and nearly life long resident
Indian women Of Morrison county He
was also near relativeof Was-ke Buffa~
10y, who was. a great chief. over all the
Chippewas Of Wisconsin and Minnesota,
and whose home was at Lapoint, Wis:
There were two other chiefs, but second
to him. At the Prairie du Chen treaty
the Government made some other chiefs,
On account of but fewaof the Chippewas
going down to Prairie du Chien.r Two
years afterwards Gen.; Cass was sent; up
to Fond du Lac to make another treaty,
especially with the Chippewas, and at
that time a,ehief was appointed for each
band of Indians in the Chippewa nation.
Ba~be-ze-gadin.ba (Curly Hair) was
chief over the Indians in this section OF
country, under Was-ke, and went down
to Prairie du Chen to that treaty. On
his way home, when near St. Anthony
Falls, he was taken sick, and seeing that
he was. going to die, he took his Govern,
ment medal, that he had got at the treaty,
and gave it to the first Hole-in-the-D Day,
and authorized him to succeed him as
chief. Hole-in- -the-Day's father was with
them, and took sick and died at the same
time and place. "A to the original cause
of war between the Sioux and the Chip
pewa Indians, Wadena says that he
learned or heard that long time ago.
when the Sioux occupied this section Of
country and the Chippewas the Lake Sn,
perior country, it was found out by the
Chippewas that game was much more
plenty in this region than it was in their
own, whereupon some Chippewas came
over here to hunt on the Sioux ground,
and refusing to go back oh being re.
quested to do so, fight ensued. This
soon created general hostility, which
was kept up without cessation until he
(WadenD was small boy, just old
enough to remember that treaty OF
peace was held within the bounds Of this
county, at the lake they call Na-saw-we.
| de-nah- saw game gon, (or Lake between
| the Hills@ which is small lake lying in
sections "a and 35, town Al, range 81, on
! Rice creek. This treaty was kept only
a short time, and thereafter treaties OF
peace were frequently made, but none
lasted any great length of time. This
country was ceded to the Government by
treaty in 1887, held at Fort Smelling. In
about 826 Charles Larose, uncle of Hon
Peter Roy, and Charles Chauboile, had 6
trading post for two winters on small
fiat on the east side Of the Mississippi
about half mile below Big Bend. 1r
1887, when the treaty was made for this
country, Wadena came down from the
northern country, where he had been fol
! some years, and saw two trading posts
near together on the west side of the
Mississippi river, on the fiat just below
the present ferry crossing at Swan River
The buildings then looked quite old
One was used by a man named Bellcore
/ the other trader he did not know. A
man by the name Of Broce came and
traded at the point Just below Big Bend
after Larose & Chauboile left there. ;, HI
married a squaw, and widow Detour
now living in Little Falls, is a daughte1
dd his. Broce came into this country
from below. The traders commenced
bringing goods from points below, on ths
Mississippi, in about 1885. Previous K
that time all goods came across from
Lake Superior. In about 1874 man by
the name Of Ewing, of Fort Wayne, In
diana, in company with others, started /
number Of trading posts in this country
one at Swan River on the east side of thi
Mississippi. A man named Godfrey
took charge. Philip Beaupry and Lewis
Merraw were employed by them in 1916
This firm was suppressed ed by Peter Chon
teau & Co. This company employed
Hon. H. NJ. Rice, now of St. Paul, al
agent, and they did large business, es
tablishing many trading posts through
this country continuing the one "a
Swan River, Wadena relates an inciden
that occurred when he was about f iftee1
years Of age, and in which he participat
ed A number Of ChSppewas .wer'
camped along the Mississippi in this re
gion of country, some on both sides
numbering among them about forty war
riors. AT that time the Sioux occupiee
the country but a short distance to thu
west, some at the head Of Little Elk nv
er, and they were then generally friendly
with each other. A Chippewa and {
Sioux out hunting met, shook hands, ant
appeared to- be friendly. The Chippews
stooped down to adjust his moccasin
when the Sioux shot, killed and scalpei
him on the spot, and took the scalpto the
camp of his chief, whose name was Wa
Epa-se-na, he being the head chief Of tht
Sioux nation, and apparently aggood
man. desiring peace rather than war be
| tween the two nations. it 50 happened
that this chief had met a Chippewa the
same day, and invited him home with
him, and he was. in his wigwam wher
this Sioux came in with the scalp Of thu
man he had killed. The chief Warpa-se
ma was greatly offended at the Indian, fo1
committing the murder. As Wa-pase-ni
was . great friend Of Son-gaca-mig
E(Strong Ground, who was 9 very intelli
gent and brave Indian, and was . broth.
lef of old Day, he sent the
Indian, that he had invited, to see Son
ga-ca-mig, and invited him to come and
Isee him about the matter. When tht
/ word was received, all that were neal
about in the country, about forty, gath
cred together and went out to visit The
Sioux chief. They fonnd him at hi