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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1856 Excerpt:...affront of an individual in bis private capacity, is anre to be revenged sooner or later, and tbe avenger is always known, as it would not be any satisfaction to him if he could not enjoy the credit of it. An instance came under my observation. It is usual for the trader to take to his post as many guns as there are good hunters, who will probably pay for them. These are generally at first distributed to thnso for whom he may particularly intend them, before he commences giving out other articles. One year, in distributing the guns, ny interpreter overlooked a good hunter, while some other not so good a hunter got the gun. This mortified the good hunter, and that night he killed the horse of every man who had received a gun, and it was known the next morning who had done it, and what was the canse. It is common to reveDge an insult or injury by killing the offender's horse or dog, and there are. in this way, a great many horses killed every year among the Sioux. And they not only revenge insults or injuries among themselves, but, as the late Col. Robket Dioksow, in conversation with me on the subject, expressed it, "they revenge upon tkeir enemies the acts of the Almighty-" for, when a chief or man of distinction dies, they commence singing the war song, and raise a war party to revengo his death upon their natural enemies, as well as to appease the troubled manes of tLe departed. tnflncnce with the other chiefs. Above Winona was another large band of Indiana, who had their village on the west bauk of the Mississippi, where the Presbyterian mission now is, a few miles below St. Paul, whose chief wa3 called Lttixb Citow; a man of good 6erife, and generally considered a good Indian. There was another small band who had their village at Mendota, whic...