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THE RED MEN OF IOWA.

CHAPTER IV.

TRIBES ON THE MISSISSIPPI.

Pike's Expedition--Council with the Sioux--Prairie du Chien--Treaty of 1804--Treaty of Portage des Sioux--Fort Madison--Plot to Destroy the Garrison--Indian Girl's Warning--Quashquame--Pashepaho--Attacks on the Fort--Indians Repelled--A Siege--Provisions Exhausted--Fort Burned--Garrison Escapes--Fort Edwards--Posts at Bellevue--Attack of Winnebagoes--Enemy Repulsed--British Traders--Great Council at Portage des Sioux--Black Hawk Refuses to Attend--Treaty at St. Louis in 1816--Council at Prairie du Chien--Important Treaties--Relinquishment of Indian Titles--Winebagoes Dissatisfied--Keokuk.

ON the 9th of August, 1805, Lieutenant Zebulon M. Pike embarked from the encampment near St. Louis on his memorable expedition toward the sources of the Mississippi. He was accompanied by one servant, two corporals and seventeen privates. Their craft was a keel-boat, seventy feet in length in which they carried provisions for four months. The expedition was for the purpose of selecting positions for military posts, to promote peace among the hostile tribes, and to trace the Mississippi to its sources. The party reached the St. Peters River, September 22d, where they held a council with the Sioux Indians, and purchased a tract of land of about one hundred thousand acres, where the military post of St. Peters was established. Peace was also negotiated between the Sioux and Chippewas, who had been at war for a number of years. At the

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