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dian might covet. About that time a party was formed to 

 ascend from the village to Lake Pepin, in order to lay in a 

 store of the blue clay which is found upon its banks, and 

 which is used by the Indians as a pigment. Winona and her 

 friends were of the companj^ It was on the very day that 

 they visited the lake that her brothers offered their presents 

 to the warrior. Encouraged by these, he again addressed her, 

 but with the same ill success. Vexed at what they deemed 

 an unjustifiable obstinacy on her part, her parents remon- 

 strated in strong language, and even used threats to com- 

 pel her into obedience. " Well," said Winona, " you will 

 drive me to despair; I said I loved him not, I could not 

 live with him; I wished to remain a maiden; but you 

 would not. You say you love me ; that you are my father, 

 my brothers, my relations, yet you have driven from me 

 the only man with whom I wished to be united ; you have 

 compelled him to withdraw from the village ; alone, he 

 now ranges through the forest, with no one to assist him, 

 none to spread his blanket, none to build his lodge, none 

 to wait on him ; yet was he the man of my choice. Is this 

 your love ? But even it appears that this is not enough ; 

 you would have me do more ; you would have me rejoice 

 in his absence ; you wish me to unite with another man, 

 with one whom I do not love, with whom I never can be 

 happy. Since this is your love, let it be so; but soon 

 you will have neither daughter, nor sister, nor relation, 

 to torment with your false professions of affection." 

 As she uttered these words, she withdrew, and her parents, 

 heedless of her complaints, decreed that that very day 

 Winona should be united to the warrior. While all were 

 engaged in busy preparations for the festival, she Wound 

 her way slowly to the top of the hill ; when she had reach- 

 ed the summit, she called out with a loud voice to her 



