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.River. Two women belonging to one of these parties were killed 

 by a Chippewa war-party traversing that part of the country the 

 ensuing year. The act was disclaimed by them as not being in- 

 tentional, and it was declared they supposed the women to be 

 Sioux. On a close inquiry, however, I found the persons who 

 committed this act were relatives of Okunzewug, which renders it 

 probable that the murder was intentionally perpetrated. This act 

 further widened the breach between the two hitherto fraternal 

 tribes ; and the Chippewas of this quarter began to regard the 

 Menomonie hunting-parties, who entered the mouth of the Chip- 

 pewa Eiver, as intruders on their lands. Among a people whose 

 means of verbal information is speedy, and whose natural sense 

 of right and wrong is acute, the more than usual friendship and 

 apparent alliance which have taken place between the Menomo- 

 nies and Sioux, in the contest between the Sacs and Foxes, and 

 the murder by them jointly of the Fox chief White Skin and his 

 companions at a smoking council, in 1830, have operated to in- 

 crease the feeling of distrust ; so much so, that it was openly re- 

 ported at Chegoimegon, at Yellow Eiver, and Ottowa Lake, that 

 the Menomonies had formed a league with the Sioux against the 

 Chippewas also, and they were fearful of an attack from them. 

 A circumstance that had given point to this fear, and made it a 

 subject of absorbing interest, when I arrived at Ottowa Lake, was 

 the recent murder of a Menomonie chief by a Chippewa of that 

 quarter, and the demand of satisfaction which had been made (it 

 was sometimes said) by the Indian agent at Prairie du Chien, and 

 sometimes by the commanding officer, with a threat to march 

 troops into the country. This demand, I afterward learned from 

 the Indians at Eice Lake, and from a conversation with General 

 Street, the agent at Prairie du Chien, had not been made, either 

 by himself or by the commanding officer; and the report had pro- 

 bably arisen from a conversation held by a subaltern officer in 

 command of a wood or timber-party near the mouth of the Chip- 

 pewa Eiver, with some Chippewas who were casually met. Its 

 effects, however, were to alarm them, and to lead them to desire 

 a reconciliation with the Menomonies. I requested them to lose 

 no time in sending tobacco to the Menomonies, and adjusting this 

 difference. Mozojeed observed that the murder of the Menomonie 



