TREATIES WITH INDIAN TRIBES FOR LAND IN MISSOURI. 187 



we came into and at the head of which we found the river which leads to the 

 Outagamies." Father Allonez found the Indians very much dejected on account 

 of the loss of several of their families who had been captured near Lake Michigan 

 ' by a party of Iroquois warriors. 



From this date these Indians are freqently mentioned by the early explorers 

 of the lake country. In 1671 their chiefs were present at the congress of tribes 

 at Mackinaw when St. Lusson took possession of the west in the name of the 

 French king. In October, 1679, Hennipin and LaSalle met a party of them on 

 the south shore of Lake Michigan, and two years later Hennnpin passed through 

 their villages on Fox River, when returning from captivity among the Sioux. 

 LaSalle visited their villages in 1681 in search of his men who had been driven 

 from the Illinois country by the Iroquois, and heard from them of the safety of 

 Tonty and the others. Father Charlevoix, the celebrated Jesuit who traveled 

 through Louisiana in 17201, spent some time with the missionaries among these 

 Indians in 1721, and urged the Sacs to greater respect for their Missionary if 

 they hoped to retain the favor of the French King. Jona Carver the first promi- 

 nent native American traveler in the west, was among these Indians in 1766 and 

 mentions that one vil'age of the Sacs could furnish three hundred warriors. 



There was nothing in the character of the Sacs and Foxes in any way differ- 

 ing from the other Indians of the west and in an intercourse of one hundred and 

 fifty years with the whites, Black Hawk is their only warrior that has won dis- 

 tinction. 



But the Sacs and Foxes were not the only Indians who claimed an owner- 

 ship in Missouri. The loways put forward a claim to the country and on the 

 4lh day of August, 1824, the Government entered into a treaty with them at 

 Washington, D. C, by which it was agreed that the loways cede forever quit 

 •claim and relinquish to the United States all the right, title, interest and claim to 

 the lands which the said loway tribe have or claim within the State of Missouri 

 and situated between the Mississippi and Missouri Rivers and a line, which has 

 been run and marked by Colonel SuUivan, running from the Missouri, at the 

 mouth or entrance of the Kansas River, north one hundred miles, to the north- 

 west corner of the limits of the State of Missouri, and from thence, east to the 

 Mississippi. The consideration paid the loways was five hundred dollars in cash 

 and the promise of five hundred dollars to be paid annually for ten years. They 

 were represented by Mah hos-kah, or White Cloud, and Mah-ne-hah-nah, or 

 Great Walker, and this was the first treaty with the tribe in which they disposed 

 of any land. 



This tribe had more right to treat for the disposal of Missouri territory than 

 the Sacs and Foxes. Their hunting-grounds were on the water- courses that 

 flowed to the Missouri River and they frequently made incursions into the terri- 

 tory when the Missouris held sway there, they were of the great Dacotah family 

 whose natural home was west of the Mississippi, and they assisted in driving away 

 the remnant of Missouris, hence their claims may be said to have had some 

 foundation. 



