THE GEORGE CATLIN INDIAN GALLEEY, 127 



PRESENT LOCATION AND NUMBERS. 



Ottawas at Quapaw Agency, Indian Territory, 122 in 1884; in Angnst, 

 1885, 117; dress in citizen's clothes; civilized. 



Ottawas with Chippewas, at Mackinac Agency, Michigan, in 1884, 

 G,000; in 1885, the same. Intermarried, and impossible to give esti- 

 mate of either tribe. Farmers, fishermen, and lumbermen; civilized; 

 lands being allotted. 



Agent W. M. Eidpath, at the Quapaw Agency, in charge of the Otta- 

 was, reports, August 26, 1885: 



The Indians are all civilized and comiioteut to earn a livelihood for themselves. 

 Most of them speak the English language fluently, and their communities in j)oint of 

 intelligence comj)are favorably with settlements of whites in the neighboring States. 



WIJS^-NE-BiL-GOES. 



[Wiuuebagoes: Laws of United States. Winneb^goe: Indian Bureau, June, 1885.] 

 A very fierce and war-like tribe, on the western shores of Lake Michigan, greatly 

 reduced of late years by repeated attacks of the small-pox and the dissipated vices 

 of civilized neighbors; number at this time, 4,400. 



Mr. Catlin saw the Winnebagoes first in 1831 ; afterwards he was 

 with them at Prairie du Chien, Wisconsin, then spelled Ouisconsin, in 

 183G. Mrs. Catlin was with him at this time. 



199, 200, 201, 202, 203, 204, 205, 206. Du-c6r-rea (Decorie) ; chief of the tribe, 

 and his family ; a grouj) of eight. Painted in 1831. (No plate.) 



This name is given many ways : By George Gale as "De Carry," "De 

 Kaury " in the Wisconsin Historical Collections, and Mr. Catlin, "Du- 

 cor rea." The United States officials, however, knew him as Decorie. 

 He was head chief of the Winnebagoes, and delivered Black Hawk and 

 the Prophet to General Street at Prairie du Chien, August 27, 1832. 

 Chactar, also a Winnebago, was with him. This act ended the Black 

 Hawk war of 1832. 



From Fort Winnebago, 1831. 



There was old Dey-kau-ray, the most noble, dignified, and veuerable of his own, or 

 indeed of any other, tril)e. His fine Roman countenance, rendered still more striking 

 by his bald head, with one solitary tuft of long silvery hair neatly tied and falling 

 back on his shoulders; his perfectly neat, appropriate dress, almost without orna- 

 ment, and his courteous demeanor, never laid aside ucder any circumstances, all com- 

 bined to give him the highest place in the consideration of all who knew him. It 

 will hereafter be seen that his traits of character were not less grand and striking 

 than were his personal apx)earance and deportment. — Mrs. J. H. Kinzie, "Wau-Buu," 

 page 8i). 



Mr. Kinzie, the agent at a conference with the Winnebago chiefs in 

 in 1831, in the matter of sending their children to a school in Kentucky, 

 was thus addressed by Dey-Kau-Ray on education : 



Father, the Great Spirit made the while man and the Indian, lie did not make 

 them alike. lie gave the white man a heart to love peace and the arts of a quiet 



