178 DAKOTA GRAMMAR, TEXTS, AND ETHNOGRAPHY. 
Yankton.’ It is possible that the “Red Stone” may have signified the 
Des Moines River, which was so ealled. 
These bands were all at that time within the present State of Minne- 
sota, and mainly having their homes north of the forty-fifth parallel, except 
the last, who are said to have been living at the Red Stone Quarry. This 
‘an be no other than the Red Pipe Stone in the neighborhood of the Big 
Sioux. Le Sueur says the Assiniboin lived on the head waters of the Mis- 
sissipp1. 
For the next fifty years the Dakota appear to have kept within their 
old limits, sometimes at war with the Ojibwa, and then again in league with 
them against the Fox and Sauk. Already the quarrel between the English 
colonies and the French had commenced. The Fox took the side of the 
Knelish, but were defeated at the port of Detroit and elsewhere, and obliged 
to flee for protection to their enemies, the Dakota. For a while it appears 
that the Fox hunted north of the Minnesota River. 
The maps made in France about 1750 locate the Dakota, as we have 
already seen, partly on the east and partly on the west side of the Missis- 
sippt. They occupied Leech Lake, Sandy Lake, and probably Red Lake 
at that time and for some years afterwards. At the source of the Minnesota 
River there is put down a large lake called “Lake of the Teetons.” 
Whether this was intended for Big Stone Lake, or for what we now call 
Devil’s Lake, in Dakota, may admit of a doubt. Besides this, these maps 
locate a portion of the Teton’ (Titoyway) and the Yankton (Ihayktoy way) 
on the east side of the Missouri, down in Iowa, whence came the names of 
the streams, Big and Little Sioux. 
In the ‘French and Indian war,” the Dakota nation took no part.” But 
very soon atter the English came into possession of Canada and the French 
ports in the northwest, a company of Dakota braves visited Green Bay to 
solicit the trade of the Englishmen. They told the officer in charge that if 
the Ojibwa or other Indians attempted to shut up the way to them (the 
Dakota), to send them word, and they would come and cut them off, “as 
all Indians were their dogs.” 
Previous to this time, the “Sioux of the East” had given the number 
'Tinhanetoynway approximates Thayktonway. Nasalizing the ‘‘n’s” will make this change.— 
J. O. D. 
* Perhaps the present Ihanktoy wan gens of the Sigangu (Titonwan)—see list of Tata ka-wakan— 
includes those whose ancestors intermarried with the Yankton proper, when part of the ‘Titoy wan 
were neighbors of the Yankton.—J. 0. b. 
’The only thing T find which looks like participation at all, is a record of arrivals at Montreal 
in 1746, July 31. “Four Sioux came to ask for a commandant.” 

