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[401] _Indian Office Files_, 1830, No. 140.

[402] Taliaferro to Clark, August 2, 1829.--_Indian Office Files_, 1829, No. 65.

[403] _Executive Doc.u.ments_, 2nd Session, 30th Congress, Vol. I, Doc.u.ment No. 1, p. 444.

[404] _Senate Doc.u.ments_, 1st Session, 30th Congress, Vol. I, Doc.u.ment No. 1, p. 919.

[405] _The Minnesota Pioneer_, May 12, 1849.

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[406] Taliaferro writes: "It was some length of time before he could induce the Indians to respect the Sabbath-day--all days being alike to them. It so happened that hundreds of important peace conventions were made and confirmed by the hostile tribes on the Lord's day. But time and patience brought them to reason, and for many years they respected the white man's great 'medicine day.' The sign given for the day of rest was the agency flag floating from the flagstaff, at the agency council house."--_Auto-biography of Maj. Lawrence Taliaferro_ in the _Minnesota Historical Collections_, Vol. VI, p. 236.

[407] _Missionary Herald_, Vol. 45, p. 429, December, 1849.

[408] _Minnesota Historical Collections_, Vol. XII, pp. 326, 327; _Taliaferro's Diary_, August 14, 1833.

[409] Street to Taliaferro, August 12, 1829.--_Taliaferro Letters_, Vol.

II, No. 108.

[410] _Minnesota Historical Collections_, Vol. II, pp. 119-121.

[411] Taliaferro to Eaton.--_Indian Office Files_, 1830, No. 151.

[412] _Taliaferro's Diary_, April 18, May 1, June 8, 1831.

[413] _Taliaferro's Diary_, August 14, 1833.

[414] _Taliaferro's Diary_, April 18, 1831.

[415] Pond's _Two Volunteer Missionaries among the Dakotas_, p. iv.

[416] _Auto-biography of Maj. Lawrence Taliaferro_ in the _Minnesota Historical Collections_, Vol. VI, p. 255.

[417] _Senate Doc.u.ments_, 3rd Session, 25th Congress, Vol. I, Doc.u.ment No. 1, p. 523.

[418] Pond's _Two Volunteer Missionaries among the Dakotas_, pp. 12-30.

This volume, written by the son of Samuel Pond, tells of the work of his father and uncle.

[419] Pond's _Two Volunteer Missionaries among the Dakotas_, p. 30.

Among the _Kemper Papers_ (Vol. XX, No. 34) the writer found the following permit to enter the Indian country:

"The Right Reverend, Jackson Kemper, Missionary Bishop of the Protestant Episcopal Church, having signified to this Department, his desire to visit and remain sometime in the Indian country, and requested the permission required by law to enable him to do so, such permission is hereby granted; and he is commended to the friendly attention of civil and military officers and agents, and of citizens, and if at any time it shall be necessary to their protection.

Given under my hand and the Seal of the War Department this 1st day of October 1838.

S. Cooper.

Acting Secretary of War."

[420] Pond's _Two Volunteer Missionaries among the Dakotas_, pp. 31, 32; _Minnesota Historical Collections_, Vol. XII, pp. 324, 325.

[421] _Taliaferro's Diary_, July 7, 1834.

[422] Pond's _Two Volunteer Missionaries among the Dakotas_, pp. 38-42.

[423] Pond's _Two Volunteer Missionaries among the Dakotas_, p. 47.

[424] Featherstonhaugh's _A Canoe Voyage up the Minnay Sotor_, Vol. II, p. 11.

[425] Pond's _Two Volunteer Missionaries among the Dakotas_, p. 43.

[426] _Minnesota Historical Collections_, Vol. VI, pp. 127-146.

[427] Pond's _Two Volunteer Missionaries among the Dakotas_, pp. 127, 133.

[428] _Executive Doc.u.ments_, 1st Session, 31st Congress, Vol. III, Pt.

II, Doc.u.ment No. 5, pp. 1054, 1055.

[429] Riggs's _Mary and I, Forty Years with the Sioux_, pp. 41, 42.

[430] Pond's _Two Volunteer Missionaries among the Dakotas_, pp. 49-59.

[431] _Executive Doc.u.ments_, 2nd Session, 29th Congress, Vol. I, Doc.u.ment No. 4, p. 315.

[432] _Executive Doc.u.ments_, 1st Session, 32nd Congress, Vol II, Pt.

III, p. 439.

[433] _Minnesota Historical Collections_, Vol. VI, p. 343.

[434] Pond's _Two Volunteer Missionaries among the Dakotas_, pp. 63, 64.

[435] _Missionary Herald_, Vol. 41, p. 281, August, 1845; Vol. 32, pp.

188, 189, May, 1836.

[436] _The Spirit of Missions_, Vol. IV, p. 61, February, 1839; Tanner's _History of the Diocese of Minnesota_, p. 24; _Post Returns_, April, 1839, in the archives of the War Department, Was.h.i.+ngton, D. C.

[437] Gear to Kemper, Nov. 29, 1841.--_Kemper Letters_, Vol. 25, No.

103. See also _The Spirit of Missions_, Vol. 5, p. 68, March, 1840.

[438] _Acta et Dicta_, Vol. I, No. 1, July, 1907, pp. 14-21; _Minnesota Historical Collections_, Vol. III, pp. 222-230.

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[439] Catlin's _Letters and Notes on the Manners, Customs, and Condition of the North American Indians_, Vol. II, p. 592.

[440] Merrick's _Old Times on the Upper Mississippi_, p. 187. The following description was given by Philander Prescott, a fur trader: