Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1917-04-05

seats in a circle around them ex-
cept the one-eyed chief, 'Kaw-ray-
kaw-saw-kaw,' or The White
Crow who had been deputed to
deliver the prisoners to the agent.
'sHe made a speech in which he
set forth that although asserting
their innocence of the charges
preferred against them, his coun-
trymen were quite willing to be
tried by the laws of the white
man. He hoped they would not
be detained long; that the matter
would be investigated soon and
that they would come out of it
clear and white.
I'm reply he was assured that
all things would be conducted fair
ly and impartially, the same as if
the accused were white men; and
the hope was added that they
would be found to have been good
and true citizens and peaceful
children of the Great Father the
President.
"When this was over White
Grow requested to transfer the
medal he had received from the
President as mark of friend
ship, to his son, 'Pawnee B1enk,"
who stood beside him and who had
been chosen by the nation to fill
his place as chief-an Office he
was DESTROYS Of resigning."
"The speech made upon this occa-
sion, as interpreted by Paquette, the
modest demeanor of the young man,
and the dignified yet feeling manner
of the father throughout, made the
whole ceremony highly impressive,
and when the latter took the medal
from his neck and hung it around that
of his son, addressing him few an
propriate words, think no one could
have witnessed the scene unmoved.' .
White Crows village on Lake Kosh-
konong was abandoned during the
Sank war 1882 and he is supposed to
have established himself on the north
side of the Wisconsin river, somewhere
between Portage and Sank City.
He died in 1886 and, according to
the statement of the late Hon. Stephen
Taylor, ''the place of interment of the
celebrated chief is at point near the
foot of bluff, twenty-five feet or more
west from the line of said military
road, and about one hundred and fifty
yards southwark from spring near
the easterly side of said road, the wa
ters of which flow northward and join
a large stream which finds it's way
through Black Earth Valley to the
Wisconsin river at Arena. That was
the grave of that chief, I was at the
time informed by Whirling Thunder
himself. The grave may probably still
be found unless obliterated by vandal
hands in the improvement OF the VII
lage of Cross Plains, in or near which
it is located" (This note was written
in 1874. Wis. Hist. Collections, Vol. 10,
page 496).
And Kaw-ray-kaw-sauka undoubt-
eddy saw the vision Of Hia-wa-tha:-
''I beheld the westward marches
Of the unknown crowded nations
All the land was full Of people.
In the woodlands rang their axes,
Smoked their towns in all the valleys,
Over all the lakes and rivers
Rushed their great canoes Of thunder.
Then a darker, drearier vision
Passed before me, vague and cloud
like;
I behe1d our nation scattered
Saw the remnants of our people
Sweeping westward, wild and woeE1l,
Like the cloud-rack of the tempest,
Like the withered leaves Of Autumn"
The biographical sketch Of the
''Princess," the washington Woman,
Mrs. Yellow Thunder, is necessarily
shorter than that of her celebrated
father. An Indian squaw had not much
chance to get into the records OF those
pioneer days, but next to the Winnie
bago Queen "Wah-ho-po-e-kau" (GIory
of the Morning) the washington Wo-
man. will have place in the frag-
mentary records of Winnebago women.
The earliest date mentioned refer
ring to the daughter Of White Grow is
in a letter received from the late Mr..
e. D. Coe, in which he quotes Senator
Saterlee Clark as speaking OF the
chiefs eighteen-year-old daughter.
This was in 1928.
I can do no better than quote the
evidence collected by me and publish
ed in the Wisconsin ArcheOlog1st, VOL.
Z, No. 2, pages 1887:
The FIRST Mention of White Crows
Village, 1928.
In a conversation with Edwin D.
Coe, of Milwaukee Gu. S. Pension
AGENT regarding the early history OF
the Koshkonong region, he spoke OF
Mr.. Clark's accounts of his visits to
Lake Koshkonong in 1928. At the
writer's request he sent the following
information referring to White Crows
daughter, being with the Winnebagoes
that visited Washington in 1928:
milwaukee, Wis, Jan. 23rd, 1897
Dear Mr.. Skavlem:-
At your request give you herewith
the substance of what the late Senator
Sat. Clark told me one day, nearly
twenty years ago on the train going
to Madison, respecting his first visit
to Lake Koshkonong. He was young
boy of about fourteen or fifteen, as L
recall it, and was accompanying an
uncle, an army officer, who had been
deputized at Washington to visit the
chief "OxbOw" on Official
business. AS I remember it this was
about the year 1928, and the business
pertains to the Winnebago trouble