dance. The next season, a small party of Ojiboways camped 

 beside the walls for protection, were attacked and several 

 killed. Captain Clark went in pursuit of the assassins in the 

 morning, thirty-two Dakota warriors being brought back. 

 They were delivered to the Ojiboways, who at once recognized 

 two of the miscreants. These were led out into the open 

 prairie and when placed at a certain distance, instructed to 

 run for their lives. This they did, but the aim of the Ojibo- 

 ways was too true, and both fell dead. 



Two more being delivered to the enemy, one became fright- 

 ened and begged for his life. His companion, singing his 

 death song, gave his personal effects to members of his party 

 and prepared to die, refusing to stand near or die with the 

 other. They were shot down, and Colonel Snelling, telling of 

 the affair, says the body of the brave man had no sooner 

 struck the ground than Sioux and Chippewas buried their 

 knives in his corpse to obtain a taste of the blood of so brave 

 a man, believing such a commendable quality would pass into 

 themselves. The bodies of the four men were dragged to the 

 edge of the cliff and thrown into the Mississippi. 



In 1829, the two tribes held a peace dance on the prairie of 

 Fort Snelling, about one hundred relatives of the four Sioux 

 just spoken of and twenty or twenty-five bark canoe loads of 

 Ojiboways from Sandy Lake, Rum River and Mille Lacs taking 

 part, afterward going up the Minnesota river to the camp of 

 Black Dog, a Dakota chief, four miles up that stream from the 

 fort, for a dog feast and smoke, agreeing to hunt in peace on 

 the prairies above the Sauk river. In 1837, twelve hundred 

 Ojiboways assembled at Fort Snelling and made a treaty with 

 the U. S. government, ceding country in Eastern Minnesota 

 and Western Wisconsin. 



The walls of Fort Snelling have sheltered many famous 

 men, one who afterwards became president of the United 

 States. Zachary Taylor was in command as lieutenant colonel 

 from May, 1828, to July, 1829. Dred Scott, the negro of the 

 famous Dred Scott Decision, together with his wife, Harriet, 

 and two children, Eliza and Lizzie, were slaves here for some 

 time, and it was partly on his residence in the territory of 

 Minnesota that he based his claim. 



