. History of the Sioux War and massacres of 1862 and 1863 . tions, his strange attire, attracted at-tention and interest, which were increased by the cer-tainty of his not very distant extinction, and the factthat he would never be forgotten while river, and lake,and hill, and state, and county, and city, and town 28 THE SIOUX WAR AND MASSACEE. should owe to his language their beautiful and har-monious names. He passed unmolested on his hunt-ing excursions through the settlements, and was en-tertained at the homes of the whites, and bartered withthem the game which he killed. He battled with t
. History of the Sioux War and massacres of 1862 and 1863 . tions, his strange attire, attracted at-tention and interest, which were increased by the cer-tainty of his not very distant extinction, and the factthat he would never be forgotten while river, and lake,and hill, and state, and county, and city, and town 28 THE SIOUX WAR AND MASSACEE. should owe to his language their beautiful and har-monious names. He passed unmolested on his hunt-ing excursions through the settlements, and was en-tertained at the homes of the whites, and bartered withthem the game which he killed. He battled with theChippeways in view of the town of Shakopee, anddanced his scalp-dance, and swung the reeking trophyof his victim within sound of the steam printing-pressof St. Paul. The people of the state, and even stran-gers from abroad, crowded unarmed and fearless tothe agencies when the payments were made, althougha thousand armed warriors, in their plumes and paint,were present. How many prophecies of danger there were the fol-lowing chapter shall disclose. ^;:^^. CAUSES OF THE OUTBREAK. 31 CHAPTER II. CAUSES OF THE OUTBREAK. The Indians were predisposed to hostility towardthe whites. They regarded them with that repug-nance which God has implanted as an instinct in dif-ferent races for the preservation of their national in-tegrit}, and to prevent the subjection of the inferiorin industry and intelligence to the superior. Whenthey first caught sight of Hennepin they saluted himwith a discharge of arrows. This inborn feeling was increased by the enormousprices charged by the traders for goods, by their de-bauchery of their women, and the sale of liquors,which were attended by drunken brawls that often re-sulted fatally to the participants. Death to the whiteswould have followed years ago had not commercialdealings with them, as before stated, become a matterof necessity. The prohibition by our government of their san-guinary wars upon the Chippeways was anothersource of grievance. To th
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