The Spirit Lake Massacre Part 23

[332] _House Executive Doc.u.ments_, 1st Session, 35th Congress, Vol.

II, Pt. I, pp. 369, 370, 375.

[333] _House Executive Doc.u.ments_, 1st Session, 35th Congress, Vol.

II, Pt. I, pp. 373, 374, 375-379.

[334] _House Executive Doc.u.ments_, 1st Session, 35th Congress, Vol.

II, Pt. I, p. 398.

[335] This speech is one of the very few well-known oratorical efforts of a Siouan leader and as such it is here appended: "The soldiers have appointed me to speak for them. The man who killed white people did not belong to us, and we did not expect to be called to account for the people of another band. We have always tried to do as our Great Father tells us. One of our young men brought in a captive woman. I went out and brought the other. The soldiers came up here, and our young men a.s.sisted to kill one of Ink-pa-du-tah's sons at this place.

Then you (Superintendent Cullen) spoke about our soldiers going after the rest. Wakea Ska (White Lodge) said he would go, and the rest of us followed. The lower Indians did not get up the war party for you; it was our Indians, the Wahpeton and Sisiton. The soldiers here say that they were told by you that a thousand dollars would be paid for killing each of the murderers. Their Great Father does not expect to do these things without money, and I suppose that it is for that that the special agent is come up. We wish the men who went out paid for what they have done. Three men are killed as we know. I am not a chief among the Indians. The white people have declared me a chief, and I suppose I am able to do something. We have nothing to eat, and our families are hungry. If we go out again we must have some money before we go. This is what the soldiers have wished me to say.... All of us want our money now very much. We have never seen our Great Father, but have heard a great deal from him, and have always tried to do as he has told us. A man of another band has done wrong, and we are to suffer for it. Our old women and children are hungry for this. I have seen ten thousand dollars sent to pay for our going out. I wish the soldiers were paid for it. I suppose our Great Father has more money than this."--_House Executive Doc.u.ments_, 1st Session, 35th Congress, Vol. II, Pt. I, p. 399.

[336] Hubbard and Holcombe's _Minnesota in Three Centuries_, Vol. III, pp. 267, 268; _South Dakota Historical Collections_, Vol. II, pp. 344, 345, Vol. VI, p. 226.

[337] Flandrau's The _Ink-pa-du-ta Ma.s.sacre of 1857_ in the _Collections of the Minnesota Historical Society_, Vol. III, pp.

402-404.

[338] Flandrau's _The Ink-pa-du-ta Ma.s.sacre of 1857_ in the _Collections of the Minnesota Historical Society_, Vol. III, pp.

404-406.

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[339] Letter of Governor James W. Grimes to the Iowa Delegation in Congress, January 3, 1855, in the _Annals of Iowa_ (Third Series), Vol. II, pp. 627-630; Letter of Governor James W. Grimes to President Franklin Pierce in the _Annals of Iowa_ (Third Series), Vol. III, pp.

135-137.

[340] _United States Statutes at Large_, Vol. II, Ch. 163, p. 363, 1st Session, 35th Congress, June 14, 1858.

[341] _Copies of Claims Submitted_ in Auditor's office, in the Public Archives, Des Moines, Iowa; _Statement from the Office of the Northern Superintendent of Indian Affairs, St. Paul, Minnesota_, in the Public Archives, Des Moines, Iowa.

[342] _Statement from Office of Northern Superintendent of Indian Affairs, St. Paul, Minnesota_, in the Public Archives, Des Moines, Iowa.

[343] Letter to Governor Lowe from Superintendent W. J. Cullen, August 12, 1859, in the Public Archives, Des Moines, Iowa.

[344] _United States Statutes at Large_, Vol. 12, Ch. 157, p. 58, 1st Session, 36th Congress, June 19, 1860.

[345] _United States Statutes at Large_, Vol. 12, Ch. 163, p. 68, 1st Session, 36th Congress, June 21, 1860.

[346] _United States Statutes at Large_, Vol. 12, Ch. 72, p. 203, 2nd Session, 36th Congress, March 2, 1861.

[347] _Laws of Iowa_, 1860, pp. 26, 27.

[348] _Laws of Iowa_, 1860, pp. 36, 37.

[349] _Claims and Vouchers Filed with Governor of Iowa_ in Auditor's Office, in the Public Archives, Des Moines, Iowa.

As late as January, 1870, in his first biennial message to the legislature, Governor Merrill stated that the State had recently received from the Federal government the "sum of $18,117 to reimburse outlay for the defense of the northern border of the State, subsequent to the ma.s.sacre at Spirit Lake in 1857."--Shambaugh's _Messages and Proclamations of the Governors of Iowa_, Vol. III, p. 263.

[350] _Annals of Iowa_ (Third Series), Vol. III, p. 481.

[351] _A Worthy Tribute_ in the _Fort Dodge Messenger_, Vol. 23, No.

39, August 18, 1887.

[352] _A Worthy Tribute_ in the _Fort Dodge Messenger_, Vol. 23, No.

39, August, 18, 1887.

[353] S. F. 115 was introduced by Senator A. B. Funk of Spirit Lake, and H. F. 230 by Representative J. G. Myerly of Estherville. Senator Funk's measure was later subst.i.tuted in the House for the House measure, upon motion of Representative Myerly.--_Senate Journal_, 1894, pp. 85, 178, 335, 585, 697; _House Journal_, 1894, pp. 124, 504, 577, 765.

[354] _Laws of Iowa_, 1894, pp. 116, 117.

[355] _Report of the Okoboji and Spirit Lake Monument Commission_ in the _Annals of Iowa_ (Third Series), Vol. III, pp. 552, 553.

[356] Smith's _A History of d.i.c.kinson County, Iowa_, pp. 572, 574, 575.

[357] Smith's _A History of d.i.c.kinson County, Iowa_, p. 576.

[358] Smith's _A History of d.i.c.kinson County, Iowa_, p. 579.

It should also be noted that on April 9, 1913, there was approved a law which declared that "on and after the pa.s.sage of this act, the survivors of the Spirit Lake Relief Expedition of 1857 ... shall receive a monthly pension of $20.00 per month, during the lifetime of each such survivor".--_Laws of Iowa_, 1913, p. 362.

Under the provisions of this law there was paid out of the State treasury the sum of $2,189.33 for the biennial period ending June 30, 1914, and $4,677.33 for the biennial period ending June 30, 1916.--_Report of the Treasurer of State_, 1914, p. 21, 1916, p. 21.

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[359] Mrs. Sharp's _History of the Spirit Lake Ma.s.sacre_ (1902 edition), pp. 274-282, 340.

[360] Judge Charles E. Flandrau in _The Ink-pa-du-ta Ma.s.sacre of 1857_ in the _Collections of the Minnesota Historical Society_, Vol. III, p.

399, has this to say of Mrs. Marble after leaving St. Paul, Minnesota: "The bank [where her money had been placed] failed, and that was the end of Mrs. Marble so far as I know, except that I heard that she exhibited herself at the East, in the role of the rescued captive, and the very last information I had of her, was, that she went up in a balloon at New Orleans. I leave to future historians the solution of the problem, whether she ever came down again?"

[361] Smith's _A History of d.i.c.kinson County, Iowa_, p. 576.