Minnesota in three centuries, 1655-1908 . hat the Bow did not tell thetruth and that their conduct had been most despicable. You have not hearts to look at the Indians who murdered yourfamilies and friends. Go home to your squaws and hoe corn, you arenot fit to go to war. Your Great Father gives you some flour and porkto eat; you have no stomachs for war. Go home to your squaws andhoe corn, and never again trouble your Great Father with your anxietyto go to war. Take your canoes and clear yourselves. The next day, June 23, General Street, still convinced thatWabashas warriors were fitted only
Minnesota in three centuries, 1655-1908 . hat the Bow did not tell thetruth and that their conduct had been most despicable. You have not hearts to look at the Indians who murdered yourfamilies and friends. Go home to your squaws and hoe corn, you arenot fit to go to war. Your Great Father gives you some flour and porkto eat; you have no stomachs for war. Go home to your squaws andhoe corn, and never again trouble your Great Father with your anxietyto go to war. Take your canoes and clear yourselves. The next day, June 23, General Street, still convinced thatWabashas warriors were fitted only to become corn field hands,wrote to Taliaferro: * * * All the Sioux but six have returned to this place (Prai-rie du Chien) without being in an action or attempting to strike a got to General Dodge on the Pecatonica the day after he hadkilled the eleven Indians and went to the ground and scalped and mang-led the dead Indians and are now dancing with their scalps. They areon their way home and their courage has wholly SEAT OF BLACK HAWK WAR—1S32. Asto EABLY HISTORY. 199 Of all the Indian forces sent down only the Menominees and sixSioux remain. The Menominees say they are determined to be revengedon the Sacs and Foxes personally before they quit. I have no doubtthey will make a brave stand, but the Sioux are cowardly and oughtto go home and hoe Notwithstanding their previous bad conduct. GeneralsAtkinson and Dodge called upon the Sioux for help in conclud-ing the operations against Black Hawk. The day before thebattle of the Bad Ax Captain Throckmorton and his steamboat,the Warrior, were sent up to Wabashas Village to inform themthat the Sacs were approaching the Mississippi and directing himto come down at once. It was on the return trip when a Siouxscout informed Captain Throckmorton that Black Hawk andhis band were at the mouth of the Bad Ax, and the boat im-mediately prepared for action and was soon engaged. Just after the Warrior had left the
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