Part 14 (1/2)

We had a cow naht her up on the boat My dog was an i wereup but when I foundwould let me tie my sunbonnet on her I much preferred her She looked so corunting little corunts when I would scratch her with a stick

I never saw such a sad expression in the eye of any hu as I saw in ”Otherdays” the Sioux friend of the whites It seemed as if he could look ahead and see as to be the fate of his people Yes, I have seen that expression once since After theI saw a young squaw, a beauty, standing in the door of her tepee with just that sa the tears to my eyes to think of her

There used to be a stone very sacred to the Indians on Alexander Gould's place near us It was red sandstone and set down in a hollow that they had dug out The Sioux owned it and never passed on the trail that led by it without squatting in a circle facing it, s their pipes I have often stood near and watched them I never heard them say a word

They always left tobacco, beads and pipes on it The Indian trails could be seen worn deep like cattle paths

At the ti on their way to the fort Such a sad procession of hopeless, terrified women and children Many ounded and had seen their dear ones slain as they fled to the corn fields or tall grass of the prairies I can never forget the expression of some of those poor creatures

Mrs Mary Massolt--1856

I first lived at Taylor's Falls I was only fourteen and spoke little English as I had just coe bands of Indians used to careat fancy to them and used to spend hours in their camps They were always so kind and tried so hard to please me When the braves were dressed up they always painted their faces and the more they were dressed the more hideous they made themselves I would often stick feathers in their head bands, which pleased them very much

The stor like the constant Once I was sitting by a little stove when the lightning came down the chimney It knocked me one way off the bench andit over

Mrs Anna Todd--1856

We came to St Anthony in '56 and lived in one of the Hudson Bay houses on University Avenue between Fourth and Fifth Streets They were in a very bad state of repair and had no well or any conveniences of any kind The chimneys would not draw and that in the kitchen was so bad that Mr Todd took out a pane of glass and ran the stovepipe through that Everybody had a water barrel by the fence which was filled with river water by contract and in the winter they used melted snow and ice

Mr Todd built the first piers for the boo was all done by team on the ice The contract called for the completion of these piers by April 15 The work took ured on and Mr Todd realized if the ice did not hold until the last day allowed, he was a ruined man There were many anxious days in the ”little fur house” as it was called, but the ice held and theI reer than they now are They began in October and lasted until May

When ere cohest point, I looked all around and said ”This is the most beautiful country I have ever seen”

Where Mrs Richard Chute lived in Minneapolis, the vieonderfully beautiful Near there, was a house with the front door on the back side so that the view could be seen better Times were very, very hard in '57 and '58 We never saw any money and to our Yankee minds this was the worst part of our new life A friend had been staying with us fore had One day he said to my husband, ”I', but I can give you an old mare which I have up in the country” He finally induced Mr Todd to take her and almost immediately, we had a chance to swap her for an Indian pony A short time after, there was a call for ponies at the fort and the pony was sold to the Governold This seemed like 1,00000 would now

The first ti spaniel had come to us, probably lost by so him a short tioing to St Paul, so we told hi and lose him Better than that, he swapped hiht them up the river as a speculation The neas to take the dog back down the river that day, but that dog was back almost as soon as the tea all winter

The early settlers brought slips of all kinds of houseplants which they shared with all The ere gay with fuchias, geraniums, roses, etc Most everyone had a heliotrope too All started slips under an inverted tumbler to be ready for newcomers

Mr Edwin Clarke--1856

On April 12, 1865, President Abrahaned ent for the Chippewas of the Mississippi, Pillager and Lake Winnebagosish bands, and the Indians of Red Lake and Pe about two thousand five hundred, were principally located around Mille Lac, Gull and Sandy Lakes; the Pillager and Winnebagosish bands, about two thousand, around Leach, Winnebagosish, Cass and Ottertail Lakes; the Red Lake Bands, nu about fifteen hundred, were located about Red Lake and the Pembina Bands about one thousand at Pembina and Turtle Mountain, Dakota

At that time there were no white settlers in Minnesota north of Crow Wing, Long Prairie and Ottertail Lake

The Chippewa Indians were notin their birch-bark covered ams around the lakes, frooodly portion of their sustenance and where they were convenient to wood and water The hunting grounds, hundreds ofnearly one-half of the State, furnished moose, deer and bear es, ducks, wild geese and other sathered each year, a to uns, clothing and other goods Soetables and they also ar annually They also gathered large amounts of cranberries, blueberries and other wild fruit

The Chippewa Indians had very few ponies, having no use for them, as it wasabout the lakes and rivers At that ti without the Government annuities, which consisted of a cash payment to each man, woman and child of from 500 to 1000 and about an equal amount in value of flour, pork, tobacco, blankets, shawls, linsey-woolsy, flannels, calico, gilling twine for fish nets, thread, etc

An Indian in full dress wore leggings, moccasins and shi+rt, all made by the women from tanned deer skins, and trimmed with beads, over which he threw his blanket, and with his gun over his ar down, and face streaked with paint, he presented quite an i men occasionally supplemented the above with a neat black frock coat