180 DAKOTA GRAMMAR, TEXTS, AND ETHNOGRAPHY. 
On his downward trip in the following spring, he met Wabashaw’s band, 
the Kiyuksa, below Lake Pepin. As he ascended the Mississippi as far as 
Leech Lake, and found the country above the Falls of St. Authony, in the 
main, occupied by Ojibwa, the ference is that the Dakota had, in the pre- 
vious years, been driven by their enemies from that part of the country. 
One reason for this was, that the Ojibwa were furnished with firearms be- 
fore the Dakota A second reason was found in the drawing of the fur 
trade. And a third was the gradual disappearance of the buffalo in the 
wooded country of the Mississippi. At this date the Sisseton and Yankton 
were on the head waters of the Minnesota. Delegations of these bands met 
Lieut. Pike in the spring, and proceeded to a grand council at Prairie du 
Chien. 
Old men still living relate how the Wahpeton, or Leaf Village, when 
they retired from the bullets of the Ojibwa on the east of the Mississippi, 
pitched their tents towards the northwest corner of what is now the State of 
Iowa, and when they returned they established their planting village at 
what has been ealled Little Rapids, on the lower part of the Minnesota 
River. In about 1810, a portion of them removed up to an island in Big 
Stone Lake, and afterwards a larger part settled at Lac qui Parle 
Until after the middle of this century, the habitats of the Dakota were, 
for the Mday-wakan-ton (Mde-wakay: toyway), the Mississippi River from 
Winona to the Falls of St. Anthony, and up the Minnesota as far as Shakopee. 
The Leaf Shooters (Walipekute) were on the Cannon River, where Fari- 
bault now is; and the Wahpeton (Leaf Village) were, as stated, at the Little 
Rapids, and Lac qui Parle and the lower end of Big Stone Lake. The 
Sisseton occupied the Blue Earth country and the southern bend of the 
Minnesota, while the great body of them were at the villages on Lake 
Traverse. The Yankton, Yanktonai, Cut-heads, and Titonway were on 
the great prairies to the westward. 
When Lieut. Pike made his tour up the Mississippi, in the years 1805 
and 1806, he found much of the trade, in the Dakota and Ojibwa countries, 
in the hands of men who were in sympathy with Great Britain. The trad- 
ers, many of them, were Englishmen, and the goods were British goods. 
It is not strange then that, in the war of 1812, the Dakota, together with 
other Indians of the Northwest, were enlisted in the war against the United 
States. This was brought about mainly by Robert Dickson, a Scotchman, 
who was at this time at the head of the fur trade in this part of the coun- 
try. Under his leadership the Dakota, the Ojibwa, the Winnebago, the 
Menomonie, the Sauk and Fox, and others, were brought into action, 
