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‘Lake. And when the autumn came the white men were permitted to leave, 
with the promise that in the following year they would return with goods 
to trade for the abundant peltries. They descended the Mississippi in bark 
canoes. At the Falls of St. Anthony two of the men took each a buffalo- 
robe that had been sacrificed to the god of the waters. Du Luth greatly 
disapproved of the act as both impolitic and wrong, but Hennepin justified 
it, saying they were offerings to a false god. As the white men were about 
to start up the Wisconsin River they were overtaken by a party of Dakota, 
again on the war-path against the Hlinois. The white men, remembering 
the stolen robes, were alarmed, but the Dakota passed on and did them no 
harm.' 
These Nadouessioux, or Sioux, of the east of the Mississippi, whose 
acquaintance we have now formed somewhat, appear at this time to have 
been divided into Matanton, Watpaaton, and Chankasketon. ‘These are 
band names. But the headquarters of all was the Mde-wakay or Isan-ta- 
mde. From this point they issued forth on their hunting expeditions and 
their war parties. The latter penetrated into Iowa and central Illinois to 
Lake Superior and Lake Michigan. Sometimes we find them at peace with 
the Ojibwa and at war with the Fox. Then, again, we find the Fox and 
Toway joining the Dakota war parties against the Ojibwa. The war which 
separated the Assiniboin from the Dakota had not ceased at this period, 
and the impression is that the separation had taken place not many years 
before they became known to history. 
Nicholas Perrot was sent by the governor of Canada, in 1683, to take 
charge of the trading interests among the loway and Dakota. And in 1689 
the first recorded public document was signed in which the land of the 
Dakota was claimed for the French king. In this document Father Marest, 
of the Society of Jesus, is spoken of as missionary among the Nadouessioux, 
and Mons. Le Sueur, to whom we are indebted for the next ten years of 
history, was present. 
Le Sueur was first sent to La Pointe to maintain peace between the 
Ojibwa and Dakota. And in the year 1695 he erected a trading post on 
an island of the Mississippi, above Lake Pepin and below the mouth of St. 
Croix. In the summer of the same year he took to Montreal delegations 
from several western tribes, including one Dakota, “'Teeoskatay’” by name. 
This man died in Montreal, and one hundred and fifty years afterward the 
‘Le Clereq, the historian of the Siear Du Luth, corroborates the story of Hennepin in regard to 
their meeting at Knife Lake. 
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