RADiN] HISTORY 63 



Tlie Foxes now offered tobacco to many different tribes, giving 

 them beautifully decorated pipes. They desired to aiiniliilate the 

 Winnebago. All the different peoples liked this because they hated 

 the Winnebago. They made their plans carefully, but even then 

 they could not defeat (the Winnebago) in battle. They (the Winne- 

 bago) always kept on moving back as the others tried to overcome 

 them. The Winnebago were driven mto the water. They crossed 

 to an island, taking with them the women and cliildren. Here tliey 

 lived in lodges and ate the crops as they stayed there. All summer 

 they were besieged on this island, as the enemy hoped to destroy 

 them. 



One night a man wearing a black skin robe inside out, said, "This 

 they are gomg to do to you, we heard. So far only the fleetest 

 have come. Soon the slower ones will come, peelmg basswood bark 

 as they go along with which to bind the people. If some are still 

 alive we can then take them home bound." 



Tcap'o'sgaga felt sad and said, "He will die, the one who said 

 that." Then he shot at him and tumbled him down. The one 

 who had said this was sitting on top of a tree. 



One daj^ (the Foxes) said, "Turn over to us those Menominee 

 who have married into your tribe. We are longmg for some Me- 

 nominee soup. If you give these (men) to us we will let up on you." 

 The two Menominee among the Wmnebago were great warriors 

 and it was for them that (the Foxes) were asking. These Menominee 

 talked to one another and the one who spoke first said, "It is a hard 

 thing to be a son-in-law in a tribe not your ovm, my father used to 

 say to me. Whenever the members of the tribe are in difficulties 

 and they wish to save themselves, they turn (their attention to the 

 strangers among them)." "Thus it is" (said the other), "but they 

 may sacrifice me." "My friend, I feel the same way about it just 

 as my father told me. I spoke to you because I thought that you 

 niight dread it." 



Then the Winnebago gave the Menominee away, but the Foxes 

 did not let up on them. 



After a while the Menominee came to the aid of the Winnebago, 

 but the Foxes said, "Wait a little; let us speak to you first." The 

 Menominee listened and the Foxes told them, "The Winnebago are 

 not to be pitied. There are two Menominee who had married 

 among them and they handed them over to us. In this way we 

 again drank Menominee soup. For this reason am I speaking to you. 

 You may help them, now, if you wish to, now that I have told you." 



The Menominee had come to help the Winnebago, but now that 

 the two Menominee had been handed over to the Foxes they turned 

 back. 



