78 NARRATIVE, &c. 



of their chiefs, who observed that they were compelled to fighc 

 in self defence. Although the Sioux had made a solemn peace 

 with them at Tipisagi in 1825, they were attacked by them that 

 very year, and had almost yearly since, sustained insidious or 

 open attacks. He said, "his own son, his only son," was 

 among the number, who had been basely killed, without an op- 

 portunity to defend himself." 



