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expedition, and employed the summer season in visiting the re- 

 motest bands on the Upper Mississippi, and I will now proceed to 

 detail such of its results, not heretofore communicated, as pertain 

 to the present condition of the Indians. 



It will be recollected that during the previous visit, general 

 councils were held with the Chippewas at Chegoimegon on Lake 

 Superior, and at Yellow River, Lac Courtorielle, and Rice Lake, 

 in the region of St. Croix and Chippewa Rivers : that the subject 

 of the treaty of peace and limits of 1825 was distinctly brought 

 home to the chiefs, and their promise obtained to use their influ- 

 ence in keeping their warriors at peace : that messages were 

 despatched by them to the principal Sioux chiefs, expressive of 

 these sentiments, accompanied by messages from myself : that 

 a Chippewa war party was encountered, and its object frus- 

 trated: and the subject of limits on the Red Cedarfork present- 

 ing itself as an obstacle to a firm peace on this border, was ami- 

 cably referred by them to the President, with a request, by them, 

 that he would use his influence to keep the Sioux at peace. 

 From which auspicious results were anticipated. 



I had the satisfaction to find, in the progress of this year's visits, 

 that these measures had been productive of good effects ; that the 

 fall and winter of 1831 had passed, without any war party's going 

 out of the region of the Chippewa and St. Croix, and that a 

 peace-council had been held by the Chippewas of the Folle 

 Avoine, and the Sioux of the Petite Corbeau's band, which was 

 also attended by the Upper Snake River Indians, and by deputa- 

 tions of the Mille Lac and Fond du Lac Chippewas, and that my 

 counsels and admonitions had been extensively spread. 



Other facts disclosed on my passing through Lake Superior 

 may be adverted to. On casually meeting a party of Indians 

 and traders at the Portail (June 11th), I heard of the existence 

 of a feud at Lac Courtorielle, which had, during the previous 

 winter, resulted in the murder of a Canadian named Brunet at 

 Long Lake, and the murder of an Indian boy by the son of Mo- 

 zojeed, the chief of the band. That the murderer had been ap- 

 prehended by the Chippewas and traders, and brought out as far 

 as the carrying-place on the head of the Mauvais River, where he 

 had escaped. 



