Occurrences in the Vicinity of St. Paul, Minn: Before Its Incorporation as a City |
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Ainse Aird American American Fur Company Anthony April arrived August band boat BRITISH TRADERS building canoe Captain Carver cave Chein Church city of St Colonel Snelling commanding corner of Third Croix River erected Falls of St flag foot of Jackson Fort Snelling French Gervais Governor Ramsey Henry Jackson Indian agent interpreter J. W. Simpson Jackson street James Aird John Joseph Renville July June Kaposia Sioux killed Lac qui Parle Lake Pepin Lake Superior land Legislature Lieutenant Little Crow Little Crow's village lived Mackinaw married Mendota Methodist Minnesota River mission mouth Neill nesota officers Ojibways Parrant Paul peace Penesha Perry Pierre Pierre Gervais Pike Pike's Prairie du Chien Presbyterian residence Rice Robert Dickson Rogers Rolette Samuel Peters scalp sent Sioux chief soldier soon steamboat Territory town trading post treaty tribe United Upper Mississippi Valley vicinity visited voyageur Wabashaw warriors whisky wife William Wisconsin wrote
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Page 6 - ... noise that reverberated through all those gloomy regions. I found in this cave many Indian hieroglyphics, which appeared very ancient, for time had nearly covered them with moss, so that it was with difficulty I could trace them. They were cut in a rude manner upon the inside of the walls, which were composed of a stone so extremely soft that it might be easily penetrated with a knife : a stone everywhere to be found near the Mississippi.
Page 6 - ABOUT thirty miles below the Falls of St. Anthony, at which I arrived the tenth day after I left Lake Pepin, is a remarkable cave of an amazing depth. The Indians term it Wakon-teebe, that is, the dwelling of the Great Spirit.
Page 5 - Indians within those parts of our colonies where we have thought proper to allow settlement; but that if at any time any of the said Indians should be inclined to dispose of the said lands, the same shall be purchased only for us, in our name, at some public meeting or assembly of the said Indians, to be held for that purpose by the governor or commander in chief of our colony respectively within which they shall lie...
Page 12 - JONATHAN, his heirs and assigns, forever, all the said lands, with all the trees, rocks, and rivers therein, reserving the sole liberty of hunting and fishing on land not planted or improved by the said JONATHAN, his heirs and assigns, to which we have affixed our respective seals. " At the ' Great Cave,
Page 49 - Behind the scared squaw's birch canoe, The steamer smokes and raves ; And city lots are staked for sale Above old Indian graves. I hear the tread of pioneers Of nations yet to be ; The first low wash of waves, where soon Shall roll a human sea.
Page 5 - Settlement ; but that, if at any Time any of the said Indians should be inclined to dispose of the said Lands, the same shall be Purchased only for Us, in our Name, at some public Meeting or Assembly of the said Indians, to be held for that Purpose by the Governor or Commander in Chief of our Colony respectively within which they shall lie...
Page 13 - The Indians say they have no knowledge of any such chiefs as those who have signed the grant to Carver, either amongst the Sioux of the River or the Sioux of the Plain.
Page 12 - To JONATHAN CARVER, a chief under the most mighty and potent GEORGE the Third, King of the English, and other nations, the fame of whose warriors has reached our ears, and has been...
Page 12 - ... and other good services done by the said JONATHAN to ourselves and allies, give, grant and convey to him, the said JONATHAN, and to his heirs and assigns forever, the whole of a certain tract or territory of land, bounded as follows, viz. : from the Falls of St. Anthony, running on the east bank of the Mississippi, nearly southeast, as far as Lake Pepin, where the Chippewa joins the Mississippi, and from thence eastward, five days travel, accounting twenty English miles per day, and from thence...
Page 30 - I wish to suggest to the general-in-chief, and through him to the War Department, the propriety of calling this work Fort Snelling, as a just compliment to the meritorious officer under whom it has been erected.