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Show APPENDIX TO PART I. B&o't'HEns-1\'Ir. Chote..tu was sent by your father to the Os:1gc uation, with one of his young chid~. lie sailed some days before Jnc, and had not time to procure the medals which lam told he promised to send up, but they will be procured. llnoTHERS-1 wish you to have some of your head chiefs to be ready to ~o down with me in the spring. From the head of the St. Pierre also, such othe1· chief~ as you may thiuk proper, to tho numbsr of four Ol' five. \Vhen I pass here on my way 1 will sen<l you wo1·cl at what tirne you will meet me at the Pr;.~ir.ie des Chicns. llnoTHERS-1 expect that you will give orders to all yout· )'oung waniors to respect my flag and ju·otection which 1 may extend to the Chipeway ,chiefs who may come down with me in the spring: for was a dog to run to my lodge for safety, his enemy must walk over me to hurt him. llROTHl!:HS-Hcrc is a flag, which I wish to send to Gens de Feuilles, to shew them they arc not foq~ot by theit· father. I wish the comrade of their chief to take it on himself to deliver it with my words. BnoTHEJts-I am told that hitherto the traders have made a practice of scllin~ rum to you. All of you in your right senses must know that it is injurious; and occasions quanels, murders, &c. amongst your~el vcs. For this reason your father has thou~ht proper to prohibit the traders ft·om selling you any rum. Therefore, I hope, my brothe1·s the chitfi·, when they know of a trader to sell an Indian rum, will prcveut that Indian from paying his credit. This will break up the pernicious practice and oblige your father. But I hope you will not encourage your young men to treat our traders ill from this circumstance, Ol' from a hope of tht: indulgence formerly cxpericnc..cd ; but make your complaints to persons in this country, who '"ill be authoris~d to do you justice. llu.oTn 1-:ns-l now present you with some of your father's to· bacco, hlld ~o111c other trifling things, as a men orandum of my good will, and bcl'orc my departure I will give you some liquor ta dear your throats. \V HEREAs, at a conference held between the United States of America and the Sioux nation of Indi.lllS: lieu tenant Z. M. Pike, of tile nrrny of the United States, and the chiefs and the warriors of :-.aicl u ibc, hav<.: a~rced to the following artidcs, which, when ratified an I approved of by the proper autho1·ity, shall be binding on both JMr~ie~. A rt . 1. That the Sioux nation g rant unto the United States, for the puqJo~c of e~tauliohm!.!nt of militi\ry pm)ts, nine miles squ.lrC APPENDIX TO PART I. 9 at the m. o.u t.h o. f th e S t. C rO·i x,* also from below the confluence of the Mxsstssippl and St .. Pete~·s up the Mississippi to include the falls o1f SSt.' Anthon·y , extendmg nme miles on eacll st'cle f tl . 0 1C river that t 1e wux nation grants to the United States the full , ~ and p ·d 1 . • sovet etgnty ower over sm c 1stnct for ever. Art 2. That, in consideration of the above grants th tTni'ted States shall !Jay (filled up b Y t h e senate w.i th 200·0 d 11 ' )e S' Art.3. The U nitcd States IJromise ' on t1 . . ~ ars. . 1Cll pat t, to permit the ~oux to pass and repass, hunt, or make other usc of the said dis tl'lcts as they laave formerly done without any other e . 1 - those specified in article first. xcepuon t 1<m In testimony whereof we, the undersigned, have here~nto set our hands and seals, at the mouth of the nver St. Peters, on the 23d day of September, 1805. Z. M. PIKE, 1st Iieut. (L. S.) and agent at the above conference. his LE PETIT CoRDEAu, ~ (L. S.) mark his ~ (L. S.) mark -·- [ No. 4. ] St. Peter.9 2"d S ·ft 180 . D G ' " ( J • 5; 9 mzles belo·w thefalls of St. Anti. EAR ENERAL, lOny. depart bI efA, RRlI VdE D here t wo d ays sm· ce, but shall not be able to . ore t 1e ay after tomorrow; three of my m I b up to v1e\v the falls b h . en 1avc een opinion ca b r ' ut t elr reports are so contradictory, that nG n e Iormed from them All th . two villages f s· . · e young warnors (of the 0 Ioux near this place) and h' f: against the Cl · ' many c 1e shad marched the very d 1~pe~vay~, to revenge a stroke made on theit· people ay a tct theil· return from their visit to the Illinois (whe~ im .• M Y. d cmand was one league below: their re I agane (Without iniquity) they m:~y be mJde to agre~. y was "from below."- ! (-) |